Week of Dec. 3-7th

* Welcome to the first week in December! Please remember to dress warm and bring hats, mitts, etc. for outside.
*Winter bus starts Monday, December 3rd.
*Monday is food/milk order day for the month.
*Our school will be attending the "Wizard of Oz" at the Confederation Center on Friday, December 7th.  There will be no charge to the children as Home and School will be covering the cost. Wow! I would like to thank the committee for being so generous.  The only cost will be lunch. I will let the children know where we will be eating early in the week. The permission forms will be going home at the first of the week.
*The Dental clinic will continue this week.
* Ms. Flood is doing a wonderful job with all of the students and we are excited to have her for two more weeks!
* Have a great week everyone!

Week of Nov.26-29

* There will be no school on Friday, November 30 because it is a school development day.
* Thank you so much for everyone returning the report card slips and for the kind comments. I absolutely love teaching your children and it is so important to work together.
* Ms. Flood had a wonderful first full week with our class! A reminder to everyone that she has assigned a social studies poster to be handed in on Tuesday.  The paper was divided into four sections and each represented the four time periods from your social studies book.  She will be giving some time in class tom. to work on it.
* Winter bus starts Monday, December 3rd.
* Money for hot lunches for the week should be handed in tom. morning. Please separate as they go to two different people.
* Book order due on Thursday.
*  Grade 6 girls needles on Wednesday, Novemember 28th.
* Have a wonderful week!

Week of November 19-23

• A big welcome back to Ms. Stacey Flood! She will be returning to our class as our student teacher for one month!  We are so excited to be having her back.
• A reminder that lunch money for the hot meals is due tom. Please try to have the money separated because they go to two different places.
• Grade 5's will be finishing their math test tom. on patterns and equations.
• A reminder to be reading 20 minutes each night. Parents, it would be beneficial to pull out the sheet of questions that I gave everyone at parent teacher to ask your son/daughter. You could pick one evening this week and ask one question from each category of questions (literal, inferential, or evaluative). Orally being able to answer comprehension questions is a very important skill. If they think it, they can say it. If they can say it,  then they can write it. :o)
• I will be sending the book order home tom.
• Thank you to all of my students for handing in their science projects on Friday! I can tell they worked very hard.
• Report cards will be going home on Thursday, November 22.
• Have a great week everyone.

Week of November 13-16 (Tue.-Fri)

• A huge thank you to all parents who came in for parent teacher interviews on Wednesday evening and Thursday. I feel fortunate to be working with such a supportive group of parents! Thank you for all of your support at home.
• Report cards will be going home on Thursday, November 22.
• A reminder that our science projects are due on Friday, Novemeber 16.  I have encouraged the students to be doing a little bit each night.
• Grade 5's will be finishing up their Patterns and Equations math unit at the end of this week or the first of next.
• This upcoming week is Bully Awareness Week.  Friday is "Wear Pink Day" and I would encourage everyone to wear pink. We will be discussing how wearing pink to support this week came to be.
• Next Monday, November 19th, Ms. Flood will be returning to our class for one month. We are very excited to be having her join our class.
• Have a great week!

Week of Nov.5-7

• This week will be a short week due to parent teacher interviews on  Novemeber 8 and a PD day on November 9. Also, there will be no school on Monday, Nov. 12 because of Remembrance Day.
• I am looking forward to meeting with everyone at interviews Wed. evening or Thur. day. If your child has not brought back your form to say whether you can/can't attend, please do so Mon.
• Monday is lunch order day for the month. There was also a new form sent home for hot lunches.  This looks like a great opportunity for the kids. Please check the calendar that was attached to the letter for options and dates.
• I have assigned a Remembrance Day poster to be finished for Monday. All students started these in class and should be just finishing them up.
• We will be having a small matching quiz on Tuesday in Science on weather instruments. 
• This is book fair week!  We will be viewing the books on Monday morning and purchasing on Wednesday.
• The students loved our recent read-aloud called Hiding Edith.  It was filled with emotion and adventure.  I would encourage you to get your child to talk about the story with you.
• Have a great week!

Week of Oct. 29-Nov.2

• I have to send out a huge "thank you" to all of my students for making my birthday last Thursday so memorable. They were so thoughtful and kind!  The musical version of "Happy Birthday" brought tears to my eyes. I consider myself one of the luckiest teachers on PEI to have such a wonderful group of children in my class.
• I will be sitting with other teachers on Tuesday to plan out parent teacher interview times.  The interviews will be held on Wednesday evening, November 7 and Thursday November 8.  If you would like a certain time, please send a note in with your child on Monday.
• The grade 5 math students just started into Unit 1 called Patterns and Equations.  I would still remind everyone that it is a good idea to be reviewing mental math facts each night.  Our response time for 'x' facts should be 3 seconds or less and division facts should be 5 seconds or less.
• We have been working on Informational reports in language arts and will continue to work on them this week. The students have chosen a topic related to weather and we have been discussing the importance of text features (pictures, captions, headings, glossary, maps, tables, charts, bold print, italics, etc.).  Students will include some of these text feature within their informational reports.
• Lunch order forms will be going home mid-week. Monday, Nov.5 will be lunch order day for the month of November.
• A reminder to be reading 20 minutes each night. Parents don't forget to be having conversations with your child about what it is they are reading.
• Happy Halloween to everyone! I will be meeting on Monday to get the specifics on what activities will be planned for Wednesday and I will discuss this with the students on Tuesday!

Week of October 22-26

• Thank you to everyone for such a great week! It was quite a week at ACC, from Mrs. Jay kissing a pig to Mrs. Ranahan celebrating her 40th year with the school board. I want to thank my students for making my week a great one too!
• Grade 5 math quiz (part 2) will be on Wednesday. This will involve multiplication facts, estimating, rounding, and some addition/subtraction. Don't forget to bring back your math tests signed.
• The book order will be due on October 24th.
• The class will have a weather folklore poster due on Thursday.  This will be explained on Tuesday. For example, Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in the morning sailors take warning.
• Don't forget to be reading 20 min. each night and filling in your reading passport.
• Have a wonderful week!