Well, we had our Pizza Party today! It was fun and apparently the best part of the entire week.😂 Nonetheless, we had a busy day today too.
We started the day with reading which we followed up with a math lesson where we worked on some mental math strategies to do addition with large numbers. We covered some strategies today but we will be continuing to practice these skills and using them in word problems next week.
In music, we once again worked on our recorders. We have covered Si and La so far and today we combined the two. We are getting better at reading our notes. I will send home some practice sheets as well in the near future.
After recess, in French, we had our dictee and we read some more of Le Petit Prince. During lunch I put on the song from Le Petit Prince (posted on the Chansons page) and many have started recognizing the scenes and characters from the book. After the Petit Prince we also read a fun book called "Cours, cours, Nicolas". The story is about a boy who does 6 extra-curricular activities every night of the week and how he manages it. It is a funny story. It was a great book to be exposed to some fun new vocabulary.
Pizza Party at lunch and then we worked on our Beakerhead stories using Google Docs. This was our first time using Google Docs, but many of the students found it easy to use and even finished their stories. I sent an email with how to access the Google docs and those who had a hard time getting started could use some help at home too to work on their stories. We will be finishing the book by the end of next week.
We wrapped up the day with our English spelling test, a Sharing Circle and our Recycling team went around to collect recycling.
Another Christmas Card Contest!
I have shared with the students this week that there is another Christmas Card Contest. Please see below the details. Please have the cards in by Nov 22 as although the deadline is November 23 the Pony only takes mail on Tuesdays and Thursdays! Should the students wish to submit a card then I can send home a release form.
Please visit the website: www.ataloc55.ab.ca for more details.
Thank you to all the students who submitted cards for the last contest.
Thank you also to Mme Kelly for submitting them for us.
Homework:
- Math review sheets (Semaine 10) - Friday - all due Nov. 19
- English Homework (week 4) - Friday - all due Nov 19
- Raz-kids French books (Assignment Nov 12-16) - due Nov 18
NEXT WEEK:
Homework for next week will be reading only. No spelling tests will be taking place either. We will still have a Math quiz on Thursday.
NEXT WEEK:
Homework for next week will be reading only. No spelling tests will be taking place either. We will still have a Math quiz on Thursday.
Important Upcoming Dates:
- Monday, November 19 - Healthy Hunger
- Wednesday, November 21 - Rosary Making (Grades 4-6)
- Thursday, November 22 - Sammy's Pizza, Popcorn day, Teacher's Pet Field Trip (1:00 - 3:00) - 3 Volunteers needed!
- Friday, November 23 - Progress reports go home
- Monday, November 26 - Healthy Hunger
- Thursday, November 29 - Sammy's Pizza
- Thursday, November 29 - Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
- Friday, November 30 - Parent Teacher Conferences - NO SCHOOL
