Week of Nov. 27-Dec. 1

• I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!
• With the cold weather upon us, please make sure that the students are dressed appropriately.
• Book orders due on Thursday!  They make great Xmas gifts :o)
• Math for gr. 3- please practice math facts to 18 plus I will be assigning a few pages in their orange duotangs. These will be due next Friday. We have been working on 3 digit adding and will be moving into 3 digit subtracting next week.
• The students are completing an end of chapter assignment in Soc. Studies.  They are responsible for writing an Acrostic poem on either Chris Hadfield or Amelia Earhart.  We will decide on a due date on Monday together as a class.
• Spelling will be long "u" sound.  Grade 3-huge, June, dew, few, knew, excuse, school, cool, clue, true, juicy, cruise.    Grade 4-  huge, new, knew, few, true, excuse, music, June, school, fooling, juicy, unusual, chewing, usually, using
• Keep reading 20 min. each night, fill in the purple duotang.  Students remember to give yourself a comprehension check!
• Have a great week!

Week of Nov. 20-24

• Thank you to everyone who attended parent teacher interviews this week!  I enjoyed getting to sit and  chat with you about the progress your child is making.
• Please have your child reading for their 20 min each night. Be sure to sign the nightly reading log!
• Gr. 3 math- practice math facts nightly 5-8 min or so. I'm finding we need a little more work on the subtraction, so maybe spend a little more time on that.  I will be sending home the orange duotang that will need to be returned by Friday.  The students and I will be deciding how many pages they will do.
• Spelling words for this week (principle long i)-  Grade 3- line, nice, write, why, fly,  buy , try, right, fight, light, night        Grade 4- divide, write, right, light, tonight, fight, online, reply, lighten, frighten, recognize, highway, exercise, why, fly
• We will be starting to work on procedural writing this week in class.  This is where the students will be writing step by step instructions on how to do/make/complete something.  
• I will be sending home their recounts that we looked at during interviews. Please sign and return to class.
• Have a great week everyone!

Nov. 13-15

• I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend.  No school on Monday, Nov. 13 and Friday, Nov.17 due to interviews.
• Thank you to everyone who has signed up for interviews.  They will be Thursday evening and Friday morning.
• No spelling words this week due to a short week.
• Keep reading and practicing those math facts each night!
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of November 6-10

• I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! Hard to believe that we are into November!
• Picture day will be Monday, November 6th.
• Please have students reading 20 min. each evening and record their reading in their nightly duotang.  They are doing a great job reading in class and I hope that love of reading continues at home :o)
• Grade 3 math - This month we will be working on estimating/mental math of addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers along with adding/subtracting of 3 digit numbers.  Please continue reviewing math facts to 18 and I would also like the students to practice skip counting by 3's and 4's. 
• We are finishing up writing our book reviews for our novel Wonder  in class this week.
• Please sign up for parent teacher interviews on Thursday, Nov. 16 and Friday, Nov. 17.  Grade 4 math should sign up for Mr. Quinlan as well.
• Spelling words for week (long e sound) Grade 3- green, asleep, city, every, many, honey, monkey, key, team, dear, reading, piece           Grade 4- dear, piece, reading, repeating, agree,thirteen, speaking, breeze, relieved, eager, stream,slimy, shiny,funny, honey
• There will be no school on Monday, November 13th in lieu of Remembrance Day.
• Have a super week!