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!