Feb. 21 - 24

• Wow!  What a snowy last week!  I am so glad to see everyone and get back into our routine.
• Gr.2 LA-  I want to remind parents to continue reading nightly with your child and discuss the book that they have read.  Don't forget to sign the nightly reading log!  We are moving into our persuasive writing unit.  I'm sure the students are going to have a blast writing about all kinds of topics that they are passionate about.
• Grade 4 math-  We have been working on division for the last couple of weeks.  It is so important for the students to have a good handle on their multiplication facts to help them achieve success with division.  I am feeling like I will have a quiz late this week or early next week.  The students and I will decide on a date tom.  My homework expectation is for the students to be reviewing their multiplication and division facts each night. These are improving so much and I am very proud of them for their hard work.
• Grade 3-  We have been working on multiplication and division over the last few weeks.  I will assess how they are doing so far on two different days coming up:  our quiz on multiplication will be this Friday, Feb. 24th and division will be next Thursday, March 2.  The students have been grasping these concepts and they have been working very hard in class.  Please have them continue to review their  adding and subtracting facts to 18 on a nightly basis.  
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Jan. 16-20

• Gr. 2 - Continue to read each evening and discuss book with your child.  We will have our spelling quiz on Friday.
• Gr. 3-  We will be having our quiz on measurement and perimeter on Friday.  The students have been enjoying these outcomes so much!  Our mental math warm-ups have been introducing the concept of multiplication.  Please keep practicing those facts each night!
• Gr. 4- We will be having our math quiz on multiplication facts and 2/3 digit by 1 digit multiplication on Friday.  It is very important for your child to be reviewing the facts each night.
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Jan.9-13

• Grade 2-  Please make sure the nightly reading books are being copied into their reading logs each evening (Mon-Thur.)  It is very important that the students are reading each night and discussing what they have read.  Spelling quiz will be on Friday and the focus for this week is compound words.
• Grade 3-  Please be practicing math facts each evening.  I will be sending home a duotang home this week filled with some practice adding and subtracting.  This is to keep up our adding and subtracting skills over the next few months.  When students finish 3 or 4 pages, they can take it in to me and I will correct it and send it back home.  We are now into our measurement (cm and m) and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes.
• Grade 4-  Students MUST be practicing their multiplication and division facts each night.....this is an outcome for them.  This outcome leads into the outcome we are working on now which is multiplication 3 digit by 1 digit numbers.  If they do not know their facts, they will have a hard time being successful with that outcome.
• Have a great week everyone!

December 7-22

• Grade 2-  We are enjoying the weeks leading into Christmas break!  Please continue to have your child read each evening and discuss with them what they have read.  There are comprehension questions at the front of the reading duotang.  I will not be assigning homework the last week of school!
• Grade 3 math- We will be having a quiz on adding and subtraction 3 digit numbers on Tuesday, December 13.  I sent home a homework sheet tonight (Wed. Dec. 7) and asked the students to hand into me on Friday.  Please continue to review math facts each night. The last couple of weeks leading into break will focus on perimeter of regular and irregular shapes.
• Grade 4- We will be having a quiz on Tuesday, December 13 on decimals to hundredths, relating decimals to fractions, and adding/subtracting decimals.  I did assign a homework sheet tonight (Wed. Dec.7) and asked them to have it done and into me on Friday.  Homework should now be multiplication facts to 81 each night.  We will be starting 3 digit by 1 digit multiplication in January, so it is very important for the students to know their facts.
• I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  I'm looking forward to 2017 with such wonderful students!

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!