Tomorrow (Thursday) French presentation will be happening after recess.  Please help your child to remember to dress wearing the colour of pants and shirts they will say they are wearing.  

If you'd like to see how the first practices went in class, ask your child to log onto Google Classroom and follow the link to the videos to listen in.  (Be kind - speaking another language is tough and everyone is trying their best :)

 Week of Jan 18

Monday:  Spelling words and duotangs for completing the assignments should be coming home tonight.  Please remember that each week there is a short assignment (this week - write all ten words spelled correctly, then choose 5 words to write a definition for in your own words) as well as studying the ten words.

Tuesday: We will be beginning a research assignment in Social about unique animals found in Canada.  The assignment: Animal Interpretive Signs can be found in Google Classroom.  This is our last project related to our regions of Canada unit.  We've spent some time in class talking about reputable sites for information and students will be expected to keep track of the links they use (please note that Google is a search engine, not the source of the information so we've been working in class to follow the links to the actual site the information is from)

Wednesday: Library

Thursday:  Ready to present French introductions that we've been practicing, Reading Records are due.

Friday (Full day): Spelling test (assignments are due completed).  Crystals from Science go home.

 Week of: Jan 11

Monday: Math weekly #6 goes home.   Logging opinion speeches being presented in class.

Tuesday:   Logging opinion speeches being presented in class (anyone that didn't go Monday)

After a break from Reading Records while students worked on their longer Novel Review assignments before Christmas we will be getting back into this routine.  These 5 questions about reading go with fiction chapter books.  Students will have time to complete them during our daily reading periods but please help your child to be sure they have a novel at a reading level that is appropriate to them in class each day.  This can be from home or from the classroom or school library.  

Before signing your child Reading Record (RR) and returning it next week, please look over them yourselves with an eye for details and answers that are specific to the story. This is one way that I assess your child on reading comprehension of their own reading choices so details and specific answers are the most important thing.  

Wednesday: Library exchange day.  Multiplication timed facts will be completed during math.  This will be the second time that we have done these this year.  They will be available to see in portfolios when these come home later this month.  

Thursday:  A glass jar that is clean and has its label removed is needed for science (we'll be growing crystals)

Friday (half day): Math weekly #6 is due

 Check out the great Alliteration Poster we've made this week!   (As always - if you are receiving this as a forwarded email message and the video doesn't play, please go to our classroom Blog Mrs.B's Smart Cookies to watch it live)