Week of October 15-18

• There will be no school on Friday, October 19th due to a PD day.
• Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Cross Country Meet last week and good luck to students heading to Provincials.
• Picture day will be October 18th.
• Gr. 4 students should be reading 20 min. each evening and they should be recording it in their reading log.  I should have their Recount writing back on Monday, so please sign their rubric and send back both the writing and rubrics.  We have started some descriptive writing this week.
• Words for the week focus on the short u and o sound.  They are: trusting, costume, suddenly, shock, crunch, octopus, fudge, clock, summer, plump, follower, drop, plucked, under, plump
• Health quiz was on Friday and we are now moving into a social studies unit.
• Book orders were placed last week and I am hoping they will be in sometime this week.
• Gr. 4 math- I have sent home a multiplication fact sheet and students should be reviewing these with the strategies we have learned for approx. 10 min. an evening.  We have been working on 4 digit adding and will be working on 4 digit subtracting.  Students have also been solving and creating word problems.
• Have a great week everyone!