Week of Jan. 29-Feb.2

• I hope everyone had a great weekend!
• There will be no school on Wednesday, January 31st due to a PD day.
• The grade 3 and 4 math classes are entered into a math contest through Sumdog (a great math website).  This contest ends on Feb. 1st and if we win, we will win a subscription.  Great job to everyone so far!  Mr. Quinlan and I can track how many questions are being answered and the students are doing an amazing job so far!
• We are continuing to work on multiplication with products up to 36 this week.  I will assign a couple more pages in their orange duotangs.
• Students have completed a whole school writing prompt last week and we are currently working on the text form of Explanatory writing.  I want to thank everyone who handed in their biography posters on Friday.  We will continue to present these throughout the week.
• Spelling words this week (prefixes) are the following:  Gr. 3-  dislike, dishonest, unbutton, rewrite, replace, reheat, disagree, react, rewind, uncover, replay, unable.        Gr 4-dislike, replace, unknown, unlike, removed, recharge, untangle, review, rearrange, unable, disappear, disagree, uncover, regroup, unwrapped.
• Maurice Bernard will be offering art lessons here at ACC!  What a fabulous opportunity!  Check out the school web page for more information.
• We will be wrapping up our Science unit and we will be having a small quiz on Friday.  I will be giving the students a review sheet tom. at school.
• Please pack some extra socks with it being so wet outside!
• Have a wonderful week everyone!