Winter Carnival Week!

• I want to take this opportunity to say a big congrats. to everyone who participated in the Royal Canadian Legion Poster and Literary contest.  Winners for the Colour Poster Grades 4-6: 1) Jason 2) Rebecca 3) Todd and the winners for the Poem Grades 4-6: 1) Rebecca 2) Morgan 3) Dakota
• This is Winter Carnival week! There are special days planned. Tuesday will be Beach day, Wednesday will be Crazy Hair/PJ day,  Thursday will be Neon day, and Friday will be ACC spirit day.
• We wrapped up our Health unit and have begun our Science unit on "The Human Body."  One of my favorites!
• Grade 5's will be starting a new math unit this week on statistics and probability.
• Students have been working on their ABC Autobiography. We will be deciding a due date for this assignment tom.  It is my expectation that they have a couple of descriptive sentences for each letter of the alphabet.
• Let's have a great week!

• It is so hard to believe that we are starting the second half of our school year!
• I have been reading over the persuasive writing assignments and I hope to have them returned by Tuesday.  I am very proud of the hard work that my students put into these.
• Mystery at Cranberry Farm projects are due on Tuesday.  There are four pieces to this project in case the outlines have been lost in the shuffle :o) 1) Title page 2) Artistic portion 3) Written portion and 4) The Most Exciting Part handout.  The students have had lots of class time to work on this project.
• We will be wrapping up our Health unit on Friday with a quiz.  I will be giving the students their review on Wednesday or Thursday.
• Lunch orders due tom.
• Congratulations to everyone who placed in the Legion poster/poem contest.  I have the official placings at school and will post those names first of the week (I did not want to make any mistakes).
• Have a great week!

• We have been working on our persuasive writing all week.  I have asked the students to have their rough copy completed for Monday.
• Mystery at Cranberry Farm project will be due on Tuesday, February 7th.  I am very excited to read through the students projects.
• A reminder that there is no school on Wednesday, February 1st.  This will be a Professional Development Day.
• Book orders due tom.
• I will be sending lunch orders home on Thursday.  Monday, February 6th is lunch order day.
• Thanks to Tammy for the delicious muffins!
• Let's have a great week everyone!

• We are finishing up Mystery at Cranberry Farm this week.  The students have loved every second of it and I am sad to be finishing it on Tuesday.  Keep an eye out for a novel project that I will be assigning mid-week.
• We are continuing to work on our persuasive writing throughout the week. The students will be choosing their topic to write about mid-week as well.
• My math students were on fire this week!  I am so proud of their efforts!
• I would like to extend an invitation to any parent/guardian who would like to come in and read a favorite book to our class for Family Literacy Day on Friday, January 27. If you are interested, you can either send in a note, give me a call, or send an email (klmullins@edu.pe.ca) to set up a time. We would love to have you!
• Last full week of January....let's have a great one!

• We will be continuing to read Mystery at Cranberry Farm this week.  I am positive that everyone is enjoying the novel.  One of my favorite feelings as a teacher is to have my students want to continue reading.  I had this feeling every single day this week. :o)
• We have been talking about the reading comprehension strategy of "Evaluating."  To evaluate, readers need to: recognize the difference between fiction, non-fiction, and info-fiction texts, form opinions about the content presented to them, be willing to confirm or adjust their opinions as they read and learn others' view, see events from other people's perspectives, back up their opions with evidence from the text, and critique the author's craft.
• The grade 5' are having an oral math fact quiz on Thursday. Mr. Martin has been sending home flash cards for the grade 4's each night to be reviewed.
• I am looking forward to another great week! 

• What a great way to start 2012!  I am so proud of the effort that everyone put into their work last week.  Let's keep this up!
• I am so excited to be starting our novel study on Mystery at Cranberry Farm!  This is my favorite fictional novel and I hope the students enjoy it as much as I do! We will be working on persuasive writing over the next few weeks as well.
• Book order is due on Tuesday, January 10th.
• The Grade 5's have started a new unit on multiplying and dividing larger numbers.  It is very important for the students to be reviewing math facts each night. They will be having an oral quiz on their math facts on Thursday, January 19th.
• Have a great week everyone!

A New Year!

• Welcome back everyone!  I hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful holiday.
• I am so excited to get back to our class!  I missed everyone over the holidays and I am looking forward to hearing about the break.
• Just a reminder that lunch orders are due tom. morning!
• Have a great week!