Week of November 4-7

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
• There will be no school on Friday, Nov. 8th due to parent teacher interviews.  The interviews also run on Thursday evening so be sure that you go to the school web page and sign up.
• Please be sure that the students are reading 20  min. each evening.
• We have moved from adding and subtracting 4 digit numbers and have now started learning about fractions.  I told the students the math homework I am expecting is for them to work on their multiplication facts to 81 for 10 min.
• Students are finishing up their story writing next week and we will be moving on with our descriptive writing.
• Have a great week and I am looking forward to seeing everyone at interviews.

Week of Oct.28-Nov. 1

*  I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
* I did not give our spelling quiz today because I wanted to do a few more activities with our spelling principle...long a,e,and i.  I will give the quiz Thursday of this week. 
* We had our adding/subtracting of 4 digit numbers quiz on Friday. These will be handed back on Tuesday. Please sign and return.
*The students have been working hard on writing narrative stories and will be finishing them up soon.  We will then move into the text form of descriptive writing.
* We will have a few fun activities on Thursday for Halloween.  There will be a "haunted" change room and a dance for the last half hour of the day.
*Students should be completing their nightly reading of 20 min.
*There should soon be an interview sign up on the school website.
*I do not expect the students to do any homework on Halloween night!  Have a safe and fantastic   time.

Week of October 7-10

• There will be no school on Friday, Oct. 11th due to a PD day.
• Picture day will be on Tuesday, Oct. 15th.
• Mrs. Ramsay sent home a calendar with some upcoming events for the month of October.  The next being crazy hair day on Oct. 10th and fancy day on Oct. 18th.
• Thank you for signing and returning math quizzes.  We are working on adding and subtracting 4 digit numbers to 10 000 now. It is very imp. to continue to keep working on their nightly math adding and subtracting facts.
• The gr. 4's good copy of their recount writing will be due on Oct. 9th.
• Our health posters are due on Oct. 10th.
• Keep up the nightly reading for 20 min each evening.  I am very proud of how they are reading at independent reading time!
• Book orders will be sent in on Wed., Oct. 9th.
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Sept. 30- Oct.4

• I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!
• The students have started to settle into our routines here at school.  We have been working very hard on being active listeners and knowing when and how to contribute their thoughts and ideas to the class.  I am proud of them!
• The students wrote a math quiz on Thursday and I will be sending them home this week.  Please sign it and return to school with your child.  This week we will be starting adding and subtracting of 4 digit numbers, so the nightly fact practice is very important.
• I hope all of the students have been enjoying their nightly reading books.  The expectation is that they are reading 20 min. a night.  Please let me know if your son/daughter is having trouble with their books.
• Spelling quiz will be going home, please sign and return.
• The book order came in last week!  The students were very excited!  I will be sending the October book order home mid-week.
• Super effort on behalf of our students for the Terry Fox walk/run on Thursday afternoon.
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Sept. 23-26

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
• I am hoping that book orders will arrive today.  The students have been patiently waiting!
• I would ask that the students continue to read 20 min. nightly and record in their reading duotang.
• We will be starting our weekly spelling list this week.  Monday morning the students copy the words into their agendas and we complete some word work throughout the week with these words.  There will be a quiz at the end of the week.  
• Keep practicing those nightly math facts. We will be having a quiz on Thur. on outcome N1 and N2 which is representing numbers to 10 000 and comparing and ordering numbers to 10 000.
• Hat day will be on Wed. Students are asked to bring a toonie for Terry in support of our Terry Fox run/walk on Thursday afternoon.
• There will be no school on Friday, Sept. 27 for students due to a PD day.  
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Sept. 16-20

• Book orders are due Mon. Sept. 16th. Thank you to those who ordered on line or sent them in.  They usually take about a week to come.
• I will be starting to send home the reading duotangs on Monday.  Please have your child read for 20 min. They need to copy down the title.  We have been discussing what books they want to start reading at home and some have decided that they want to continue reading a book that they are reading in class which is great!  
• I will be sending home a fact review sheet on Monday for nightly practice of adding and subtracting facts.  5-10 min would be awesome!
• Hot lunches are up and running!
• Have a great week everyone. :o)

Welcome Back!

• Welcome back everyone!  I can hardly believe that summer is over and we are back to school.  I am so excited to see everyone tom. morning!
• I will be trying to update my blog each week by Sunday evening.  So be sure to check!
• Parents, be sure to check tom. evening for a package of important forms that will need to be checked over, signed, and returned to school!
• See you tom!  :o)

Week of Jan. 14-18

• Happy new year to everyone!
• I would like to be sure that each student is jotting down their nightly reading into their nightly reading folders.  The more we read, the better readers we become.
• In grade 4 math, we have been working on our multiplication facts.  There will be nightly paper homework practice next week.  I can't stress enough how important it is for the students to be practicing these facts because we will be starting 3 digit by 1 digit multiplication next week.  
• Grade 4 spelling words focus on the soft and hard g and c sound.  They are:  class, could, crayons, peace, recess, cycle, cereal, city, price, magnet, sugar, game, general, bridge, and gym.  We have started a unit on non-fiction reading and writing.
• We are working away on our human body unit in science.  I will be handing back their diagram quiz on Monday to be signed.
• Book orders are due Monday, Jan. 14.
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Dec. 3- 7

• Wow! It is hard to believe that we are into the first full week of December.
• I will be keeping the same spelling words as last week because we only had 2 days with them.
• Continue reading 20 min each night and continue with your math facts each night as well.
• Wed. December 5th is Disney Day. Everyone is asked to dress like your fav. Disney character.
• Dec. 12 and 13 will be candy gram sales for 50 cents a piece.
• We have started our Human Body unit in science.
• Please dress for cold weather and it wouldn't hurt to pack an extra pair of socks.
• Have a great week everyone.

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!

Week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2

• Please be reading 20 min. each night and record in your duotang.
• We wrapped up our adding and subtracting numbers to 10 000 unit this week. Quizzes will be going home at the first of the week.  Please sign and return. We are beginning our unit on Fractions next.  It is very important for the students to be reviewing their multiplication facts to 81 each night.
• I will be sending home new book orders on Thursday and they will be due back the following Wednesday.
• Spelling words for grade 4's are the following:  pancake, extreme, escape, beware, flame, stripe, globe, arrive, skate, smile, use, surprise, became, scrape, confuse. 
• We have been learning about the 6 main physical regions of Canada this week in Social Studies.  They will have a very small match quiz on Friday and I will be introducing a project to them later in the week.
• All of the gr. 4 assessment results went home with the students this week.
• The students will have no homework on Wednesday night....Happy Halloween!
• Have a wonderful week everyone!

Week of October 22-26

• The weather is getting much colder out there, so it will be very important for your child to be bringing warm outdoor clothing.  
• Grade 4's please be reading each evening and recording the title in your duotang.
• We are working on some descriptive writing in class and the students are doing an AMAZING job.  Our pieces should be finished up soon and will be going on display in our classroom.
• Please continue to practice multiplication and division facts each night.
• I will be handing back the health quizzes in the next couple of days.
• Book orders came in and I will be sending the November book order closer to the end of October.
• Gr. 4 spelling words are the following:  enough, physical, cough, paragraph, autograph, laughter, tough, laughing, photograph, phone, rough, laughed, enough, trophy, nephew
• Thank you for sending in your notes if there are changes in your child's after school plans.  You are all doing a great job with this so.....THANK YOU!
• Have a great week!

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!

Happy Thanksgiving! Week of October 9-12

• I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!
• Book orders are due on Tuesday.
• In gr. 4 math, we are now into adding and subtracting four digit numbers up to 10 000.  Students will be creating  and solving word problems and estimating.  Please practice math facts nightly.  I sent home a handout and it is in their agendas.
• Spelling words for next week focus on the short a,e, and i sounds.   The words are :  after, package, rapid, festive, spend, shelf, enter, activity, tricking, whisper, special, mixture, which, bringing, mix. Quiz on Friday.
• I have been enjoying reading the recounts and I hope to have them back on Friday.  Please sign rubrics and return.
• We will be having a short health quiz on Friday and then moving on to our social studies unit.
• Have a great week!

Week of October 2-5

• I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Hopefully not too wet.
• Our Terry Fox run got postponed due to rain and we will be having it on Tuesday.
• There is no school on Monday, October 1st due to a PD day.
• We had our math quiz today on comparing, ordering, and describing numbers to 10 000. I will be sending these home, so please sign and return.  Our next unit will be adding and subtracting numbers to 10 000. Students should be practicing their math facts nightly.
• Recounts will be due on Thursday. They will be having some time to work on good copy in class, but may have to finish up at home.
• I will be handing out the October book orders on Tuesday and they will be due on the next Tuesday.
• We are hoping agendas will be in and I will give the grade 4's their first list of weekly words.  Our quiz will be on Friday.
• Remember to be reading nightly for 20 approx.

Week of Sept. 24-28

• It is hard to believe that next week is our last full week of September!
• Our agendas are not here yet, but we are hoping for next week.  Then we will start to have homework copied nightly.  Students are expected to be reading for 20 min. each night and they are to be practicing their multiplication facts for approx. 10 min.  They know they are to be copying their nightly reading into their duotang.
•  We are continuing to work on our recounts in writing.  They have been practicing a variety of writing moves within their writing.  Ask them to share a few!  We will be deciding on the due date next week for the good copy.  I will also be handing out their rubrics for this assignment.  
• No weekly spelling words yet.  We are still working on some high frequency words.
• Friday, September 28 will be wear our school colors day and our Terry Fox walk will be in the afternoon.
• I am expecting our September book order to come in next week.
• We will be having a math quiz at the end of next week on outcome N1 and N2.  These outcomes are representing numbers to 10 000 and comparing/ordering numbers to 10 000.
• Have a great weekend!

Week of September 17-21

• Wow!  What a great first full week of school!  The students have settled in and are working hard.
• Thank you to everyone for filling in and returning all of the forms. I know have them all in :o)
• Meet the teacher will be this Monday, October 17th starting at 6:30 in our classroom. There will be a second session at 6:45.  Everyone will then move to the music room for a whole group session with Mr. Gallant.  I am looking forward to seeing everyone!
• Book orders are due on Tuesday.
• Grade 5's have Mrs. Toombs for language arts and math.
• I am asking the gr. 4's to be reading 20 min. each evening.  I am sending home their reading logs starting on Monday.  I have presented them with a challenge....if they read 30 books (variety of genres) and record them on their challenge sheet, then I will buy them a book from the book order.  They are excited and reading lots!   
• I will be working on some frequency words next week, therefore our spelling words for the week won't start until the week of Sept. 24.
• In math, we have been working with representing numbers to 10 000 by using base ten blocks and pictures, expanded form and word form.  We will also be learning about comparing and ordering numbers to 10 000.   Multiplication and division facts are big in grade 4!  When we write down "practice math facts" in our homework agendas (which didn't get here yet), I want them to be practicing the X facts.  We have learned strategies for 0,1,2 (doubles), 4's (double double), and 5's (clock facts) so far.  
• In health class we are studying a unit on relationship choices which deals with topics such as emotions, communication, stress and how to deal with it, roles and responsibilities in groups.
• Thank you for sending in any notes if there are any changes in plans at the end of the day.
• I am looking forward to another great week!

Welcome Back!!!!!

• I am getting very excited to see everyone next week!
• Enjoy your last few days remaining days of summer and get ready for a great school year!
• See you Sept. 6th!