Thursday, October 31

Messages and Reminders:
There is no school tomorrow. Our poetry anthology project is due on Friday, November 8. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22. Please remember to check Mr. Mueller and Mr. Shackelton's blogs for updates on what we are doing in science and social studies, as we had projects due in both classes this week and many have not been handed in.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we did some word work. We made as many words as we could out of the letters in HALLOWEEN. In math, we learned a new long division game and played if we were done our booklets. We visited our buddies since there is no school and we won't see them tomorrow. We worked together to colour some Halloween pictures and then helped our buddies practice their listening skills while we played Halloween bingo. After a quick week in review and classroom cleanup, we went to gym and then ended the morning at the library.

Have a safe and happy Halloween if you're celebrating, a great day off tomorrow, and a wonderful weekend!

Upcoming important dates:

Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - poetry anthology project due
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip

Wednesday, October 30

Messages and Reminders:
Tomorrow is Halloween, which we will be celebrating at BHS with black and orange day. We have library tomorrow. The pillars of care assembly is tomorrow at 12:30pm. There is no school on Friday.  We have moved the poetry anthology due date to Friday, November 8. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22. Please remember to check Mr. Mueller and Mr. Shackelton's blogs for information on our science and social studies classes - there have been projects due this week in both subjects and many students have not handed them in.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we did a reading assessment. Since we have been learning about trees and forests in science, all grade six students received a passage about trees and then answered a series of questions. It was read aloud once to everyone and then students had time to reread it as many times as they wanted. The questions were designed to see how deeply students were comprehending what they had read. We will continue this type of reading assessment throughout the year, with the goal to develop strategies to help deepen our reading comprehension. During language arts, we continued working on our poetry anthologies. In math, we completed a 3 question division mini quiz, worked on our long division booklets, and then did Mathletics on the laptops. We ended the morning at our Wednesday dance class in gym with all the grade sixes.

Upcoming important dates:

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - poetry anthology project due
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip

Tuesday, October 29

Messages and Reminders:
Thursday is Halloween, which we will be celebrating at BHS with black and orange day. The pillars of care assembly is at 12:30pm on Thursday. There is no school on Friday. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22.

Morning recap:
This morning after music and read to self, we continued practicing long division. We did a few more questions as a class and then worked through the rest of our booklet on our own. If we finished all questions in our booklet, we started on a review page with long division and multi-digit multiplication. Our pumpkin group also decorated the room 20 pumpkin during this time. In language arts, we worked on our poetry anthologies. We took a break to go to gym and then continued working on our poetry until lunch.

Upcoming important dates:

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip

Monday, October 28

Messages and Reminders:
Last week's basic facts quizzes went home with students today. Please look over, sign, and send them back to school tomorrow. See Friday's blog post for more info on the basic facts quiz. Book orders are due tomorrow. Thursday is Halloween, which we will be celebrating at BHS with black and orange day. The pillars of care assembly is at 12:30pm on Thursday. Notes went home with room 20's winners today. There is no school on Friday. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22. We are taking another week off spelling to focus on our ongoing projects.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we had a special guest speaker. Officer Kovacs, our school resource officer, came to speak to us about what he does as a police officer and how we can help keep ourselves and others safe, through things such as refraining from fighting and being safe online.

After our guest speaker left, we took a few minutes to draw a pumpkin design. Many classes in the school are designing pumpkins this week. The rule is that the design must be based on something we are learning. The pumpkins will be on display in the library on Wednesday and Thursday. Room 20's pumpkin is going to be about math because Halloween often involves scary things and many of us think that math is very scary! Alone or with a friend or two, we designed a math pumpkin. Once everyone was done, we voted on which design we'll actually use. The winning design was drawn by Joshua, Haider, and Gregory, and they will execute their design on our pumpkin tomorrow morning.

In language arts, we worked on our poetry anthology. After LA, We went to gym and then we finished the morning by going over our basic facts quiz (which needs to be signed and returned) and watching part of a long division review video.

Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip

Friday, October 25

Messages and Reminders:
Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton (https://gr6bhs.blogspot.com/) and Mr. Mueller's (https://mrmuellerbhsgr6.blogspot.com/) blogs for details on our social studies and science projects. Book orders are due by Tuesday and can be submitted online or by returning forms to Ms. Winston. Thursday is Halloween, which we will be celebrating at BHS with black and orange day. The pillars of care assembly is at 12:30pm on Thursday. Notes will go home with our winners next week. There is no school for students next Friday. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22.

Morning recap:
This morning all students in division two (grades four, five, and six) spent the morning with presenters from the Junior Achievement program. In grade six, we learned all about businesses and worked together to develop a business of our own (a custom order candy store). We got to watch some clips from Dragon's Den to see how other children pitched their businesses in real life before designing a business plan together as a class. We also practiced working individually and as an assembly line to see which was more efficient when building pens. We played games including Jeopardy to identify popular logos and broken telephone to pass along customer orders. At the end, we played a review game to see how well we had been listening this morning. Everyone received a certificate for participating in this program.

Yesterday's basic facts quizzes have been marked, but students have not seen them yet because we were with Junior Achievement all morning. As a class, we didn't do very well on this quiz. This quiz was significantly more difficult than the first one, so it was expected that scores would be lower. The questions on this quiz better reflect what we will see on our triweekly basic facts quizzes throughout the year and what we will see on the math PAT. We will have many chances to improve, which means there is not reason to be concerned about marks at this point in the year; however, I want to make this clear and go over the quiz with students before handing them out because I don't want anyone to see their scores without an explanation and be upset. We will go over the quiz together on Monday, and then quizzes will be handed out for students to bring home, have a parent/guardian sign, and return to school.

Have a great weekend!

Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip

Thursday, October 24

Messages and Reminders:
Field trip forms went home today for our Tuesday, November 26 field trip to see the play of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Forms and payment must be returned by Friday, November 22. The Halloween dance is tonight. An adult must be present with students at the dance. Tomorrow morning we will be participating in a program by Junior Achievement. Book orders are due by Tuesday. Swimming forms and payment are due by Friday, November 8. Our poetry anthology is due Tuesday, November 5, and we will have more class time to work on it next week. Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton and Mr. Mueller's blogs for details on our social studies and science projects.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we wrote our basic facts quiz. We didn't have time to peer mark, so Ms. Winston marked them and we will see our marks on Monday. We saw our buddies today since we have a special program (Junior Achievement) all morning tomorrow. This year, in addition to the four constant pillars, BHS has a monthly pillar too. Since October's monthly pillar is respect, we did some respect activities with our buddies. We wrote words or drew pictures of ways to show respect at home, in class, and on the playground. We also wrote acrostic poems for respect. When we got back to class, we talked about the next rotating pillar of care. The teachers decided on the first two (belonging and respect) but this month it was turned over to the students. We went through the same process as the teachers: a group brainstorm about potential pillar ideas, table group discussions to choose the best idea, and then a whole class vote on the ideas from each group. The pillar that room 20 will be suggesting is loyalty/trust. Tomorrow at the staff meeting, teachers will each submit their students' ideas and we will determine the November pillar to be announced at next week's pillars of care assembly. We ended the morning with gym and library.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance - 6:00pm-8:00pm
Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Tuesday, November 5 - poetry anthology due
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip

Wednesday, October 23

Messages and Reminders:
Swimming lesson field trip forms went home today. The letter and calendar are yours to keep so you have the information. Forms (acknowledgement of risk, medical, and swim ability) and payment ($26) must be returned to school by November 8. We swim on November 12, 13, 14, 18, and 19. We will be writing our next basic facts quiz tomorrow morning. We have library tomorrow. The Halloween dance is tomorrow evening. An adult must be present with students at the dance. Book orders are due by Tuesday. Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton and Mr. Mueller's blogs for details on our social studies and science projects.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we did read to self or read to someone. In language arts, we continued working on our poetry anthologies. Laptops were available today if we wanted to begin typing our poems. During math, we completed a 5 question mini quiz to see how we're doing with decimal multiplication and basic division. Then we either finished our decimal multiplication bingo cards or grabbed a laptop and did Mathletics. We ended the morning at our Wednesday dance class in gym. 

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 24 - basic facts quiz
Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance (evening)
Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due

Tuesday, October 22

Messages and Reminders:
Book order flyers went home today. Orders must be in by Tuesday, October 29 and can be placed online or by sending in a cheque with your order form. You also never know when a free book coupon might be earned for hard work...We will be writing our next basic facts quiz on Thursday morning. The Halloween dance is Thursday evening. A parent council notice went home with details about the dance on Friday. Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton and Mr. Mueller's blogs for details on our social studies and science projects.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we did read to self before moving onto math. We spent a few minutes finishing up our decimal multiplication bingo cards and then we talked about division. We watched two Math Antics videos about the steps and then practiced some questions as a class. The division we are doing right now should be review from last year, but we will soon be moving onto division involving decimals.

During language arts, we had time to work on our poetry anthology project. If we accomplish about two poems a day, we should be able to get our project done during class time over the next couple weeks. We took a break to go to gym, where we played soccer, before continuing to work on our poetry until lunch.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 24 - basic facts quiz
Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance (evening)
Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day

Monday, October 21

Messages and Reminders:
BHS is participating in the Reading... Give It a Shot program this year. A reading tracking sheet went home with students today. For every hour that grade 6 students read, they will earn a hockey card. There are 24 player cards and 1 surprise card to collect. If we do well as a school, we will have a chance to win a visit from the Calgary Flames. This program goes until December 13. We will be writing our next basic facts quiz on Thursday morning. The Halloween dance is Thursday evening. A parent council notice went home with details about the dance on Friday. Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton and Mr. Mueller's blogs for details on our social studies and science projects.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we did read to self before talking about our poetry anthology project. We will have lots of time this week and next week to work on this project and are also welcome to work on it at home. Here are the details:

In math, we continued working on decimal multiplication. We had work to finish from Friday, including creating decimal multiplication bingo cards. Gym was outside this morning because our gym was being used as a polling station for the federal election. 

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 24 - basic facts quiz
Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance - 6:00pm-8:00pm

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day

Friday, October 18

Messages and Reminders:
The Halloween dance is Thursday evening. Check Mr. Shackelton's blog for detail on the social studies project that is due at the end of the month. We are taking another week off spelling because we have lots of projects starting next week and also a presentation on Friday.

Morning recap:
This morning we did read to self or read to someone before learning about bio poems. These are poems that tell the story of one particular person, including what they love and where they live. We wrote one as a class about Maks and then had time to write our own in our journals. Some of them were pretty funny. In math, we reviewed how to do multi-digit multiplication involving decimals. It is just like regular multiplication but we have to remember to count the number of places after the decimal in the questions to make sure the answer has the same amount. For example. 0.34 x 0.68 has 4 numbers after the decimal, so the answer will as well (0.2312). We did some practice problems and then started creating bingo cards so that we can play decimal multiplication bingo in an upcoming math block.

During buddies, we helped them create their classroom alphabet. We created letters using cotton balls, stickers, or tissue paper. We also read with our buddies and acted out different problems we might have at school so that we could talk about how to solve them and how big each problem is. For example, breaking a pencil is a level 1 problem that we can solve by ourselves, whereas falling off the slide and breaking a bone is a level 5 problem that requires a lot of help. We ended the morning playing bench dodgeball with all the grade sixes at gym.

Have a great weekend!

Upcoming important dates:

Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance (evening)

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day 

Thursday, October 17

Messages and Reminders:
The Halloween dance is next Thursday evening.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we did our October writing sample. This was the picture we wrote about this month.

In math, we did a multiplication mini quiz before grabbing a laptop for Mathletics. This week's mini quiz included multi-digit multiplication as well as decimal multiplication, which we will be reviewing and practicing tomorrow. We ended the morning with gym and library.

Upcoming important dates:

Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance (evening)

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day 

Wednesday, October 16

Messages and Reminders:
Fun lunch is tomorrow. We have library tomorrow.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we grabbed laptops to do our poetry quiz. It covered the terms we have been studying for the past couple weeks. Once laptops were put away, we talked about two more forms of poetry: diamantes and limericks. Ms. Winston wasn't feeling well and left mid-morning, so Ms. MacDonald subbed and the plan was to write some diamantes and limericks and continue practicing multi-digit multiplication. We ended the morning at gym with all the grade sixes for our Wednesday dance class. Ms. Winston should be back tomorrow.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 17 - fun lunch

Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance (evening)

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day 

A few reminders.

Hi Room 20 Students and Families,

I hope you are having a wonderful long weekend. Just a few notes about the upcoming week:

• We are going to write a short (15 question) quiz on Wednesday on the poetry terms we have been studying for the past couple weeks. You will need to be able to identify rhyme schemes (ABAB, ABBA, etc.), alliteration, similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, rhythm, and a few of the forms of poetry we have practiced (couplets, tercets, cinquains, haiku, etc.). If you've been paying attention in class, you will do fine. The quiz is multiple choice and will be completed on the laptops.
• There are no new spelling words this week because it is such a short week. 
• We will be practicing a few more forms of poetry this week and then we will get to work on our final poetry project which will be due at the end of the month.
• It is crazy hair day on Wednesday. 
• Grade 6 vaccinations are happening on Wednesday if forms were returned.
• Fun lunch is on Thursday.

Enjoy your Monday and Tuesday off school! Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not, take some time to be grateful. I'm grateful for the 20 of you and for our school community at BHS. See you on Wednesday.

- Ms. Winston

Thursday, October 10

Messages and Reminders:
Fun lunch orders are due online by tomorrow. There is no school on Friday, Monday, or Tuesday. Wednesday is crazy hair day and also the day grade six students will get their vaccinations if forms were returned.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we did something different in word work. We did an activity called money words. Each letter of the alphabet is given a different value and we practiced adding decimals by seeing how much each our spelling words was worth. This gave us one last chance to practice for our spelling test, which we then wrote and peer marked before heading downstairs to do a Thanksgiving word search and read with our buddies. We came back upstairs for a quick week in review and classroom cleanup and then we were off to gym and library.

Have a great long weekend and a very happy Thanksgiving if you are celebrating.

Upcoming important dates:
Friday, October 11 - fun lunch orders due online
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day
Wednesday, October 16 - grade 6 vaccinations
Wednesday, October 16 - crazy hair day
Thursday, October 17 - fun lunch

Wednesday, October 9

Messages and Reminders:
Our spelling test is tomorrow, so homework is must be returned. We have library tomorrow. Fun lunch orders are due online by Friday. There is no school on Friday, Monday, or Tuesday.

A note from Mr. Mueller: The layers of the forest project was due on Tuesday. If it was not handed in, it became homework and must be handed in tomorrow.

Morning recap:
This morning we did read to self or read to someone when we got back from music. In language arts, we filed a bunch of papers in our language arts folders and then talked about odes. We looked at examples of this form of poem, wrote one as a class (ode to sprinkles), and then wrote our own. In math, we completed a few multiplication problems and then did Mathletics or Splash Math on the laptops. It's Wednesday, which meant we ended the morning learning from our special guest dance instructor in gym.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 10 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - fun lunch orders due online
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day
Wednesday, October 16 - grade 6 vaccinations
Wednesday, October 16 - crazy hair day
Thursday, October 17 - fun lunch

Tuesday, October 8

Messages and Reminders:
Spelling homework is due on Thursday, the day of our spelling test. When completing this week's homework, students may write a sentence using the word, the definition of the word, or an example  in cases of literary devices such as simile. We have library on Thursday. Fun lunch orders are due online by Friday. There is no school this Friday or next Monday or Tuesday.

A note from Mr. Mueller: The layers of the forest project was due today. If students are not finished, it is now homework and must be handed in by Thursday.

Morning recap:
This morning we did read to self when we got back from music. In math, we did a few multi-digit multiplication questions a class to review the steps and then we kept working on our booklet from yesterday. If we finished all our work, we played multiplication or division games with a partner. In language arts, we analyzed different types of poems and looked for examples of the literary devices we have learned. We did some as a class, took a break to go to gym, and then analyzed one or two poems on our own. We used different colours to underline or highlight different literary devices such as alliteration and personification.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 10 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - fun lunch orders due online
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day
Wednesday, October 16 - grade 6 vaccinations
Wednesday, October 16 - crazy hair day
Thursday, October 17 - fun lunch

Monday, October 7

Messages and Reminders:
Spelling homework is due on Thursday, the day of our spelling test. When completing this week's homework, students may write a sentence using the word, the definition of the word, or an example  in cases of literary devices such as simile. We have library on Thursday. Fun lunch orders are due online by Friday. There is no school this Friday or next Monday or Tuesday.

Morning recap:
This morning we did read to self when we got back from ignite. In language arts, we continued looking at different types of poems. We also had some time to work on our spelling homework since this week's words are poetry words. In math, we reviewed multi-digit multiplication. We watched Math Antics videos to remind us of the steps and did some practice  questions as a class. We took a break to go to gym and then began working on some multiplication practice questions on our own. We will continue working on this tomorrow.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 10 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - fun lunch orders due online
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day
Wednesday, October 16 - grade 6 vaccinations
Wednesday, October 16 - crazy hair day
Thursday, October 17 - fun lunch

Friday, October 4

Messages and Reminders:
Fun lunch forms went home today. Order online by next Friday if you want Subway on October 17. Picture day is on Monday. New spelling words went home today and are also listed below. The sentences are due on test day, next Thursday.

Must:

1. rhythm
2. rhyme
3. repetition
4. alliteration
5. imagery
6. simile
7. metaphor
8. syllables
9. stanza
10. couplet

Should (if not ELL or on an IPP):

1. haiku
2. hyperbole
3. synonym
4. personification
5. onomatopoeia

Morning recap:
This morning we either finished our Terry Fox doodle art shoe or did read to self or read to someone before we were interrupted by a fire drill. Most of us did a great job during the drill. In math, we played noggle. It's just like boggle but with numbers. We had to write all the multiplication and division sentences we could find (they don't have to be touching in noggle the way they do in boggle). One example is 3 x 5 = 15. How many can you find?

We also went over the steps to solving a word problem and did some multiplication and division word problems. If we finished all the problems, we played math games. We did a quick week in review and classroom clean up before going down to see our buddies. We walked around the school looking for leaves and then we came in and created leaf art. We ended the morning at gym with all the grade sixes.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Upcoming important dates:
Monday, October 7 - picture day
Thursday, October 10 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - fun lunch orders due online
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day
Wednesday, October 16 - grade 6 vaccinations
Wednesday, October 16 - crazy hair day
Thursday, October 17 - fun lunch 

Thursday, October 3

Messages and Reminders:
New spelling words will go home tomorrow. Picture day is on Monday.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we played boggle. How many words can you find on today's board?

Students who had not completed their spelling homework used this time to try to get it done before we wrote and peer marked our spelling tests. After completing a math rounding chart and a few computation questions, we did Mathletics on the laptops before heading to gym and then ending the morning at library.

Upcoming important dates:
Monday, October 7 - picture day
Thursday, October 10 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day

Wednesday, October 2

Messages and Reminders:
We have our second spelling test tomorrow, so spelling sentence homework must be returned. We have library tomorrow. Picture day is on Monday.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we did read to self or read to someone. In math, we wrote and peer marked our first basic facts quizzes. Most of us did really well. A few students chose to bring it home to show off, and they must be returned tomorrow. These will happen every three weeks this year, so lots of chances to improve, and everyone will bring them home a few times a year once we have had more practice. In language arts, we kept talking about poetry. We went through some more literary terms and then wrote three line poems called tercets. We also had time to work on our Terry Fox doodle art shoes from last week. Wednesday gym classes will look a bit different for the next couple months. BHS is fortunate to have received funding for a dance program and today was our first class with the dance instructor.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 3 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Monday, October 7 - picture day
Thursday, October 10 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day

Tuesday, October 1

Messages and Reminders:
Our first basic facts quiz will be tomorrow. We have our second spelling test on Thursday, so spelling sentence homework must be returned by Thursday. We have library on Thursday.

Morning recap:
This morning after getting back from music, we did read to self and then practiced the math we reviewed yesterday. We did lots of questions on rounding decimals and a little pre-test on multiplication. When we finished our work, we played multiplication and division games to try to get quicker at solving facts. During language arts, we talked about haiku poems. We read some poems from a book called Guess Who Haiku and talked about the format of haiku poems, which is 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and then 5 syllables. We took a break to go to gym, where we did stations. When we got back upstairs, we were displaced from our classroom because our SMART Board was (finally) being installed, so we ended the morning in Mr. Mueller's room writing haikus in our journals.

Upcoming important dates:
Wednesday, October 2 - basic facts quiz
Thursday, October 3 - spelling test / spelling sentence homework due
Friday, October 11 - no school - PD day
Monday, October 14 - no school - Thanksgiving
Tuesday, October 15 - no school - PD day