Week of November 21-25

• I just wanted to take this opportunity to say "thank you" to all of the parents who came to parent teacher interviews. It was a pleasure meeting all of you. I love working with all of your sons/daughters each and every day!
• Grade 2-  Please continue with your nightly reading and be sure to have your child answer some of the questions at the front of their reading duotang.
• Grade 3 -  Keep up the great work on those math facts each night.  We are continuing to work on 3 digit addition (with and without regrouping) this week.  We have also been working on understanding the difference between the terms sum (addition) and difference (subtraction).  Students have been creating word problems from given criteria.  We will start our 3 digit subtraction soon!
• Grade 4-  We will continue to work on comparing and ordering fractions this week. There will be a quiz on fractions on Friday.  Our next area of focus will be working with decimals and how they relate to fractions.  Keep working on the math facts at night.  
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Nov. 7th -10th

• I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
• This week we do not have school on Wednesday (PD day) and Friday (Remembrance Day).
• Grade 2 LA- please continue having your child read each night and answer questions orally about what they have read.  There will be no spelling quiz this week, however I have been asking them the 103 No Excuse spelling words for Grade 2.
• Grade 3 math-  we are continuing to work on addition and subtraction of numbers to 1000 throughout the week.  Please practice math facts nightly.
• Grade 4 math-  please continue reviewing facts on a nightly basis.  Students can start to practice their multiplication facts as well.  We have been working on the following with fractions:  name and record fractions for part of a set and part of a hole, discuss where fractions are used in life, and comparing and ordering fractions.
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Oct.24-26

• Wow! It is so hard to believe that another week has passed by!  This is a short week because of the teacher's convention.
• Grade 2 Language Arts- There will be no spelling quiz this week because of it being such a short week.  We will just be reviewing the words that we have had so far.  Please read with your child Monday and Tuesday evening and pick a few comprehension questions from the front of the duotang.  Thank you so much for signing each evening.  The students are just finishing up writing their recounts (personal narratives).
• Grade 4 math- I will be sending the adding/subtracting quiz home at the first of the week. Please sign and return.  Probably starting in mid November I will be shifting the nightly adding/subtracting practice to multiplication/division practice.  We still need to stay on top of the adding/subtracting facts though. We are starting our unit on fractions next week.
• Grade 3 math-  We will be having a quiz on Tuesday on adding/subtracting facts to 18, skip counting forward and backward by 10,100, 5, 25, 3 and 4's to 1000, and illustrating place value.  They have been working really hard in class.  Keep up the nightly fact practice.  We will be starting adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers to 1000 next.  This will include estimation and mental math practice as well.
• I hope everyone has a great week!

Week of October 17-21

• I hope everyone has a great weekend!  It is definitely starting to feel like fall!
• Grade 4 math-  I am hoping to have a quiz next Friday (Oct.21) on adding/subtracting four digit numbers to 10 000.  Keep reviewing the adding and subtracting facts each night.
• Grade 3 math-  We will continue to work on adding/subtracting facts to 18, skip counting forwards an and backwards by 3,4,5,10,100 and 25's, and place value.  It is very important for the students to be taking 15 min. each evening to be reviewing their facts to 18.  This is the only homework that I am asking them to do right now.
• Have a great week everyone! 

Week of October 11-14th

• I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!

* Grade 2- Reading: Read for 15-20 minutes each evening.  Please continue to discuss with your  child what they have read, to ask questions about their reading 

• Note:  When you listen to your child read orally, please make sure that they are “reading” the punctuation. 
  *  When your child comes to an end of a sentence, does it sound like the end of a sentence or do they keep reading through the period as if it isn’t there?
  *  When there is a question mark at the end of a sentence, does your child change their voice to make it sound like a question?
  *  When there are “quotation marks”, does your child change their voice to indicate that someone is speaking?
  *  When there is an exclamation mark (!) at the end of the sentence, does your child change their voice to indicate excitement or a change in voice volume?
• Grade 3 math- We have been working on skip counting forwards and backwards by 10, 5, 25, 100, and are starting to count by 3's and 4's to 1000.  We start from various points.  For ex. 61, 71, 81 etc. We will also be continuing our work on illustrating place value and math facts to 18.  These outcomes will be our focus for the month of October.  Homework will be practice math facts & skip counting nightly.
• Grade 4 math- Please continue to review the addition/subtraction math facts to 18 on a nightly basis.  We will soon be shifting to our multiplication and division facts. We are continuing to work this week on adding/subtracting 4 digit numbers to 10 000.
• Have a great week everyone.

Week of October 3-7

• Welcome to the first full week of October!
• Gr. 2's-  Continue reading each evening and parents don't forget to ask your child a few of the questions in the folder.  It is very important for your child to understand what they have read.  Continue to review the spelling words nightly and the book order will be due on Friday.
• Gr.3 math-  We had a quiz on  representing numbers to 1000 and comparing numbers on Friday.  This will be going home to sign on Tuesday (hopefully).  We will be working with addition and subtraction of numbers to 1000 throughout the month of October.  Please keep reviewing the addition and subtraction facts from the back of the agenda on a nightly basis.  This is their math homework.
• Gr. 4 math- We had a quiz on Friday on representing and comparing/ordering numbers to 10 000.  This quiz will be going home this week to be signed and returned.  Throughout the month of October we will be working on adding/subtracting of numbers up to 10 000.  This includes problem solving and estimating as well. Please make sure  that your child is practicing their math facts on a nightly basis.
• I hope everyone has a great week and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Week of Sept. 26-Sept. 30

* I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  I would like to take this opportunity to say what a great job the students did last Wednesday.  They were so well behaved and did exactly as they were told.  I am very lucky to teach at this amazing school!

*Grade 2-  We had our first spelling quiz on Thursday and it is going home tonight in the homework bag.  Please sign and return on Tuesday.  The students did a great job with their nightly reading last week.  Just remember to sign the red duotang on a nightly basis and they will get a sticker the next day.

Grade 3 Math-  Please continue to practice adding and subtracting facts each night.  This is their homework and they are located in the back of the homework agenda.  We will be having a quiz on Friday that will be on representing numbers to 1000 and comparing and ordering numbers.

Grade 4 Math-  Please continue to practice adding and subtracting facts each night.  They are set up on a really neat website to practice these if they have access to a computer at home.  If not, the facts are located in the back of the homework agenda.  We will be having a quiz on representing numbers to 10 000 and comparing and ordering numbers on Friday.

Have a great week everyone!