Week of Oct. 16-18

• This is a 3-day week(no school on Thurs. and Friday).  The annual convention for teachers is on Thursday and Friday.
• I will not be having spelling words this week due to the fact that it is a short one.  I will be reviewing high frequency words with the students this week.
• Thank you for signing and returning the Health quiz this week. We will be moving into a unit of Social Studies next week.
• I sent off our book orders on Wed. so I am hoping that they will be here by this Wed.
• Gr. 3 math- this month we are focusing on math facts to 18 and skip counting by 3,4,5,10,25, and 100 forward and backward to 1000.   The students should be practicing their facts on a nightly basis.  They need to have a 3 second recall.
• Please be sure your child is reading for 20 min. each evening and sign the purple log.  We are about to finish our first read aloud called "Wonder" and the students have been hanging on every word!
• Students are working on recount writing and will be having a piece due Wednesday, Oct. 18 approx.  I may change this date depending on how much we get done next week. 
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Oct. 10-13

• I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
• Please continue reading 20 min each night. Some of the duotangs are not getting signed, so please remember to do so.
• We had a health quiz on Thursday.  I will hand them back to be signed once everyone has the quiz written.  Please sign and return to school.  Our next unit will be a social studies unit on what it means to be an explorer.
• Math quiz for gr. 3 will be going home on Tuesday.  Please sign and return to me.  This month we are focusing on math facts to 18 and skip counting by 5,10,100,3,4 and 25 forwards and backwards.  Please be practicing the adding and subtracting facts each night. I did send home a couple of laminated fact sheets/strategies, however the flash cards from the dollar store are a great way to practice as well. The students love these!
• Book orders are due Wednesday, Oct. 11th.
• The students completed some Thanksgiving writing pieces and they are displayed in our room.  These will be going into their scrapbooks and you can have a peek at parent teacher interviews.  The other pieces of writing that I will be assessing will always come home to you to see, sign and return to school (I keep it throughout the year).  Our next writing piece will be some descriptive writing pieces on Halloween and personal recounts.  
• Thank you for all of your support at home and have a great week!

Week of October 2-5

• We have had another great week in our classroom!  I love when I hear the children say "What? It is the end of the day already!"  They are continuing to settle in and follow rules and expectations.  
• Monday our class should wear the color green because our school is dressing in rainbow colors in support of the verbal abuse prevention award that was won.  We will be attending a small assembly at 11:15 to see the award being given.
• Please continue to sign the nightly reading log.  They are expected to read 20 min. each evening.  I have also presented them with a new challenge. If they read 30 different books, keep track of them, and be able to discuss them with me, I will get them a book from the book order!  
• I will be having a small health quiz on Thursday, Oct. 5.  I will send home a review sheet on Monday with the children.
• New spelling words:   Grade 3-hollow, fossil,rock, top,promise, costume, umbrella,under, until, bug, runs, jumps

           Grade 4-prompt, costume, shock, octopus, clock, drop, cotton, cousin, follower, suddenly, crunch, fudge, summer, under, plump

• Please sign spelling quiz and return to school.
• No school on Friday, October 6th (PD day) and Monday, October 9th
• I want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!  I am very thankful to be working in such a wonderful school with such amazing kids!  So thank you for doing such a great job raising them!

Week of Sept. 25-29

• Wow!  What a fast paced week!  The students are continuing to get settled into our routines and expectations for our class.  Great work!
• Just a reminder that the fundraising packages are due back on Monday.
• The students seem to be very into the books that they are reading throughout reading time and I would like to remind everyone to sign the nightly purple duotang.
• In writing, we have been working on coming up with "seed" ideas and not "watermelon" topics.  Students have been doing some free writing with these ideas.  We will soon be moving into our first text-type of writing called Recount Writing.   
• Spelling quiz was today (Friday) and they will be going home to be signed on Monday.  Please put back into homework bag.  Words for next week are:

Grade 3- bang, land,ask, track, kept, remember, bread, yellow, bigger, river, brick, whisper

Grade 4- after, than, package, rapid, festive, spend, shelf, measure, enter, activity, trick, festive, bring,

               whisper, special

*These words focus on short a, e, i sounds.

• Grade 3 math- keep practicing those facts each night.  We are continuing to work on representing numbers different ways AND  comparing and ordering numbers to 1000.  I am feeling that I will be assessing students on these outcomes before Thanksgiving.
• Thank you to everyone who ordered books from the book order.  The books were handed out yesterday.  Some very excited kids! :o)
• Have a wonderful week everyone!

Week of Sept. 18-22

*  I hope everyone had a great weekend!
*  Homework for this week will consist of reading for 20 min. each evening. Please let me know if your son/daughter is having a hard time finding a book to read in the evening.  They are more than welcome to take any book home from our classroom! The key is for them to find one at their level.
*  Spelling words will  be on the board first thing in the morning.  Students will write these words into their agendas and review them for the quiz on Friday.  We will be working with these words throughout the week.
*  Gr. 3 math-  I sent home laminated fact sheets on Friday for students to have to review their addition and subtraction facts nightly.  We are working on representing numbers to 1000 in class.  This includes reading 3 digit numbers, writing 3 digit numbers, writing 3 digit numbers in words, expanded form, and making and drawing 3 digit numbers using base ten blocks in more than one way.
*Book orders due tom. (Monday)
*Have a great week everyone!

Week of Sept. 11-15

*  What a great start to a new school year!  The students have been very busy over the last two days learning new routines, etc.
* I am hoping to see everyone on "Meet the Teacher" night this Monday starting at 6:30.  There will be a session in our room from 6:30 -6:45 and one from 6:45-7:00.  Mr. Gallant will call us all down to the music room for a group information session at 7:00.
*  I will be sending home Scholastic book orders on Monday.  I usually give a week for their orders to be in.  This is a great opportunity to pick up some reading material at great prices!
* The students discussed and shared their  "special reading spot" for their at home reading.  I would like 20 min. each evening and their reading duotangs will be coming home Monday.
*Spelling words will start the next Monday.
*Have a great week everyone!

Welcome Back!

* Wow! Where did the summer go!  I am so thrilled to be the Grade 3/4 homeroom teacher this year.  I am very excited to see the kids first thing in the morning.
* I will be trying my best to have my blog changed by Sundays each week, so please check :o)
* I will be sending home a parent letter tom.  If you could please read and answer the questions, it would be greatly appreciated.
*  Have a wonderful night and a restful sleep and I will see everyone tom.!