Week of Sept. 19-22

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  Just a reminder that there will be no school on Friday, Sept. 23.
• Gr. 2-  I am sending home a letter tom. with the students explaining our at home reading routines and our spelling routines.  Please be sure to read through the letter and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me at school or by email at klmullins@edu.pe.ca.  In a nutshell, the students will have a red duotang that I would like you to keep track of their nightly reading.  They will have their nightly reading books in their homework bag for the week.  The spelling list will always be in their agenda on Mondays and we will be working with these words throughout the week with a quiz on Friday (Thursday this week).
• Gr. 3 Math-  It is very important for the students to be reviewing their adding and subtracting facts to 18 each night.  The dollar store is a great spot to pick up flashcards to have at home for this nightly practice.  We are continuing to work on representing numbers to 1000 and comparing/ordering numbers to 1000 throughout the week.
• Gr. 4 Math-  Please have your children reviewing all adding and subtracting facts to 18 at night for their homework.  This is all that I am asking them to do for homework for now.  Mastery of these facts is so important before we start our adding/subtracting numbers to 10 000.    This week we are continuing to work on representing numbers to 10 000 and comparing/ordering numbers to 10 000.
• I will be sending home a letter with my gr.3 and 4 math students explaining a math site called xtramath.org.  This is a site I have the students on at school and it is for mastering all adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing facts.  It is free and is great practice.
• Have a wonderful week everyone!

Week of Sept.12-16

• I would like to welcome everyone to my blog!  I will be doing my best to update it each Sunday (this week on Tuesday night:o).  Please check on a weekly basis!
• Gr. 2 Lang. Arts-  I am having such a great week with your children.  They have such great manners and are working hard.  We have been discussing the theme of friendship and what makes a good friend.  Be sure to check the blog by Sunday because I will be explaining the homework routines that will be starting Monday, Sept. 19.
• Grade 4 Math-  I am over the moon with excitement to be teaching these students again!  I can't believe how they have grown over the summer.  This week I am encouraging them to practice their math facts nightly.  I will be sending home a letter next week explaining a math site that they can play at home for homework.  My daughters are both on it and it is super! I will explain more on the blog update on Sunday.  We have been working with our first outcome which is representing numbers to 10 000.   They have been practicing base ten pictures/words, expanded form, written and standard form of numbers.   
• Grade 3 Math-  Please have your children be practicing their math facts nightly.  I have enjoyed getting to know everyone this week.  I will be sending home a letter next week explaining a fun online math program that we will be using at school and students can use at home.  We have been working on our first outcome which is representing numbers to 1000.  This means students must read numbers, draw base ten pictures, use expanded form, and put the words in writing. 
• Have a great rest of the week!

Week of June 6-10

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
• Today (Mon. June 6) will be my last after school help session for the Gr.3's and tom. (Tue) will be my last after school help session for the Gr. 6's.
• Our math assessments will be this Wednesday and Thursday for the grades 3 and 6's. The 6's will write all morning and the 3's will write all afternoon.
• Please be reviewing facts nightly and make sure the students get lots of rest! They have been working so hard and I am very proud of them.
• Have a wonderful week.

Week of May of 30- June 3

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
• It is hard to believe that we are coming into the month of June.  Students should be reviewing their facts nightly.  I will be doing some final wrap-up assessments throughout the month of June.
• Gr. 3 and 6 provincial math assessments will be held next Wednesday and Thursday, June 8&9.  Please be sure your child is well rested.
• My extra help classes will be Tuesday for Gr. 6 and Wednesday for the Gr. 3's.
• The grade 3's will be having a small quiz on Wednesday and it will cover edges, vertices, and faces of 3D shapes along with sorting various polygons according to number of sides.  For ex.  triangle-3 sides, quadrilateral -4 sides, pentagon- 5 sides, hexagon- 6 sides, octagon- 8 sides.  The 4's will be describing rectangular and triangular prisms and they will have to construct these 3D shapes from a net.
• Grade 6- we have been working on transformational geometry.  This includes translations(slides), reflections (flips) and rotations (turns) of a shape.  We have also starting investigating when to use certain types of graphs to display certain types of data.  
• Have a great week everyone. 

Week of May 16-20

• I hope everyone had a great weekend!
• First of all, I would like to congratulate all of the students for being so well behaved at the Confederation Center on Thursday.
• Grade 3/4 class will continue to work on naming solid shapes and being able to determine how many edges, verticies, and faces each shape has.  We will also start to look and the difference between polygons (regular and irregular) and non-polygons.  The students will learn to sort the polygons according to number of sides. Please work on math facts nightly.
• Grade 6 will be working on transformational  geometry.  This includes performing successive translations, rotations, and reflections  of shapes.  Please continue the math fact review nightly.
• This week the grade 6 will have an extra help class on Tuesday from 245-345 and the grade 3's will have their help class on Thursday from 245- 345.  
• I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Week of May 9-13

• I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend!
• The grade 3 and 4's have been working on sorting and classifying 3D shapes.  We have also been learning about verticies, edges, and faces of solid shapes.
• Grade 3 assessments are coming up on June 8 and 9, so please keep reviewing those adding and subtracting facts each night. I will also be having an extra help class for the gr. 3's on Thursday, May 12 from 2:45-3:45.  If students plan to stay, they will need to have a note for their homeroom teacher and they will have to be picked up.  This will be a great opportunity to review outcomes from throughout the year.
• Grade 6's will be having their quiz on order of operations on Tuesday (I was planning on having it last Thursday, but I was at a meeting).  The math assessments are coming up on June 8 and 9 and I will be having our first extra help class this Tuesday, May 10.  If students are planning on staying, they will need to get picked up at 3:45 and they must have a note for Ms. Howman to say they are staying.
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of May 2-5

• I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and is enjoying this beautiful weather!
• The grade 3's and 4's just had a quiz on adding, subtracting, units of time, and telling time.  I will send these quizzes home tom. with the students. Please sign and return. We have been working on our next outcome which is investigating 3D objects such as spheres, cones, rectangular/triangular prisms, and cubes.  Students are exploring how many edges, vertices, and faces each object has. 
• The grade 6's have finished up constructing and sorting triangles last week and are moving into their next outcome which is understanding "order of operations." There will be a small quiz on Thursday.
• I will be starting to have  after school help sessions for the gr. 3 and 6's.  Their provincial assessments are coming up on June 8 and 9.  I will be sending out a letter on Wednesday with the dates and times.  I would encourage the students to stay and get extra practice! :o)
• Have a great week everyone!