Last Week Before Christmas!

• Wow! What a performance on Friday. I would like to thank all of my students for putting forth such a great effort at the concert on Friday. You all did a wonderful job!
• Secret Santa gifts need to be in by Wednesday, December 18th.  It is a $5 limit. 
• Skate permission forms went home last week. Thank you to everyone who has turned them in and if you haven't please hand them in as soon as possible.
• I will be sending home a little parent package on Monday discussing how to help your child's fluency at home.  Please take the time to read through and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give me a call.
• Please continue reading 20 min. each night.  A portion of that should be read orally as well.
• I would like to take this opportunity to say "Thank you" to all of my students and their parents. I consider myself very lucky not only to be working at Amherst Cove, but I am lucky to be working with such wonderful students, staff, and families.   I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a safe holiday break!  See you all back on Jan 2., 2014.

Week of December 9-13

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend with friends and family.
• Book order is due tom.  
• We will be drawing names tom. for secret Santa.  The limit is a 5.00 gift and I would ask that you send it to the school no later than Wednesday, December 18th. The students are very excited about this.
• Christmas concert will be held on Friday, December 13th. 
• Keep reading 20 min. each night. It is a good idea to be reading some of that time out loud. Parents, don't forget to be asking your child to talk about what they are reading.
• Grade 5 math- I was very impressed with our multiplication quiz last week. I would ask you to sign it and have your child take it back to me.  The students have shown such enthusiasm in math and I love it! If there is no specific homework assignment given, practice math facts. Remember the goal is 3 sec. recall for mult. facts and 5 sec recall for division facts.
• Have a great week everyone!

First Week of December!

• It is so hard to believe that we only have 3 full weeks of school left before Christmas break!
• Winter bus starts tom.
• Lunch order tom. for the month of December.
• Reading 20 min. each night.  Keep track in your passports!
• Grade 5 math- students wrote a multiplication quiz on Friday.  We will be finishing it up on Tuesday.  It is a good idea to keep reviewing math facts each night.
• I am at meetings on Monday and Friday of this week.
• We will be drawing names this week for secret Santa.  It will be a five dollar maximum.
• Thank you to everyone for passing in their persuasive writing assignments and their name assignments too!  I am very proud of you for being organized!
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Nov. 25-29

• I will be sending the book order off on Monday. If there are any other orders, please bring them tom.
• Rough copy of the persuasive writing  will be due tom.
• We will be having our multiplication quiz close to the end of the week. The students have been working on 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. They have been very open to the different strategies that I have presented in class and everyone has been working very hard...I am so proud of them.
• Christmas concert will be Friday, December 13th.
• Have a great week everyone.

Week of November 18-21

• There will be no school on Friday, November 22 due to a PD day.
• Book orders will be due on Thursday of this week.
• Thursday will be school spirit day. Students can dress in blue and gold to show school spirit.
• We are continuing to work on our persuasive pieces this week.  I would like to see rough drafts completed by the end of class on Thursday.  So, if it is not completed by then, it will be for homework next weekend.
• I love the fact that I am seeing our reading maps getting colored in!  Remember to be reading and tracking your 20 min. each night.

• Grade 5 math-any facts that you are struggling with, continue to review each night! We are working with 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication in class right now. I have a few different strategies to show the students and they will choose the one that they are most comfortable with!
• The winter bus will start Monday, December 2!  Hard to believe it is almost that time of year! Please make sure that we are dressing for the weather, it is starting to get COLD! 
• Our Christmas concert will be held on Friday, December 13th.
• Have a wonderful week everyone!

Week of Nov. 12-15

• I need to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents who have taken the time to come in to see me at parent teacher. I really enjoyed meeting with all of you.
• The proofs are back for our school pictures.  I just have to double check the due date, but I am almost positive it is on the envelope you will be getting.
• We are diving into our persuasive writing this week.  I had some beautiful entries for the Remembrance Day contest. I wouldn't want to be the one doing the deciding.:o)
• Our pre-test for spelling will be tom. with the test on Friday.
• I will be sending home November's book order tom.
• Tom. is canteen day for the boys and girls.
• Don't forget to be filling in your passports with your nightly reading minutes.
• Grade 5 math students have started 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication.  I will be showing them a few different strategies this week.  It is still important to be reviewing the math facts on a nightly basis if they students don't have a 3 second recall.
• Have a wonderful week everyone!

Week of Nov. 4-8

• Lunch orders are due on Monday. The hot lunch orders will be going home tom.  I will accept the money on Tuesday.
• Re-takes are on Nov. 6
• Book fair viewing will happen Monday and Tuesday, with purchasing on Wednesday.
• There will be no school on Friday due to parent teacher interviews. Thank you to everyone for handing in their slips.
• The Remembrance Day contest permission forms will go home tom. with students who want to enter a poster or poem into the contest.  Entries are being picked up on Thursday.
• I am asking the students to bring in five items to school tom. that tells a little story about who they are and what they enjoy. The purpose for this is in our Social Studies unit, we are learning how we understand and learn about the past. Each student will examine and make inferences about another students items(artifacts) and try to tell us about that student's life. The other two pieces of the assignment will be completed in class.
• Grade 5 math students have a quiz tom.
• As you are coming in for parent teacher, take a minute to admire your son/daughter's art work in the lobby. They worked very hard on these and I am so proud of them.
• I hope everyone has a wonderful week!