Week of Nov. 27-30

• No school on Monday, November 26 due to a PD day.
• I am looking forward to meeting with everyone for interviews :o)
• Students handed in their social studies projects on one of the six physical regions of Canada on Thursday.  There were to complete a poster or a brochure.
• We are moving onto our first science unit "The Human Body"  this week!  Students are excited.
• I will be sending the last book order home before Xmas break later in the week.  
• Grade 4 words for the week are:  hole, whole, also, growing, slower, toaster, oldest, grown, throne, more, snowing, stolen, throat, ago, joke
• Please make sure you are reading 20 mins each evening.
• We are finishing up our fraction unit this week and we will beginning our decimal unit after that.
• Have a great week everyone.

Week of Nov. 13-16

• The parent teacher interview times are up.  Grade 5 students should make sure that they are signing up for Mrs. Toombs (language arts and math), and the grade 4's sign up for myself.
• We are continuing to work on our fractions unit in math.  Please review math facts nightly.
• I sent the book order in on Wednesday.
• Please be reading 20 min. each evening and record it in your duotangs.
• This week in writing we will be focusing on how to answer questions completely.  We should be able to tell what the question was from the answer we write.
• I will be going over a social studies project with the class on Tuesday.  We will decide on a due date then.  
• Grade 4 words for the week are the following: dear, piece, reading, repeating, agree, thirteen, speaking, breeze, relieved, eager, steam, slimy, funny, honey, thief
• Have a great week everyone!

Short Week! Nov. 5-7

• There will be no spelling words this week.  I am going to give the students the 103 high frequency word list throughout the 3 days.
• There will be no school on Thursday and Friday of this week due to PD days.
• Grade 4's math- please continue to work on your math facts each night.  We are continuing to work on our fractions unit.
• We will have a small match quiz on the 6 physical regions of Canada on Wednesday.
• 4's please read 20 min. each evening.  We have been discussing story elements in fictional books.
• Have a great week!