READING!

We re-sorted our classroom library today. ,

DANCE-A-THON!!

Next Wednesday we will be participating in the Dance-A-thon!  Students can wear fall colours (like orange, black, red) or Halloween costumes.  Although the Dance-A-thon is a school council fundraiser, students will be allowed to participate whether they brought in donations or not.  

WHAT WE'RE PRESENTLY LEARNING...

(from the Ontario Curriculum Documents)


LITERACY:

READING: - to reflect on and identify our strengths as readers as well as

areas for improvement.
- read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of
literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of
strategies to construct meaning.
- use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently
- recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic
elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help
communicate meaning.

WRITING: - to generate ideas about a potential topic, using a variety of

strategies and resources.
- to identify what strategies they found most helpful before,
during, and after writing and what steps they can take to
improve as writers.
- describe, with prompting by the teacher, how some of their 
                 skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing, and  
                 representing help in their development as writers.

ORAL COMMUNICATION: to demonstrate an understanding of

appropriate listening behaviours by using active listening

strategies in order to contribute meaningfully and work

constructively in groups.

MEDIA LITERACY: to identify the purpose and intended audience of some

media texts.

MATH: a) to extend repeating, growing, and shrinking number patterns.

b) to identify, extend, and create a repeating pattern involving two

attributes, using a variety of tools.

c) to count forward and backward by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s from
various starting points.

SCIENCE: Strong and Stable Structures

Homework and Hip Hop

Homework and Hip Hop

HOMEWORK

WORD STUDY:  
On Monday of this week I introduced our Word Study books and program which, if your child does Literacy with me, should have come home Monday night. Some of the children have completed a similar program before, although it is new to others.  The instructions are on the inside of the Word Study book (small green notebook).    
Each student should be choosing 12 words to work on each week.  These may be 12 words he/she got wrong on his/her "mock" spelling test on Monday night, or if all words were correct, he/she should choose 12 new words, 3 for each of the categories - VCC, VVC, VC, and VCe. (V=vowel, 
C=consonant)
Word Study homework is due on Fridays. 


MATH HOMEWORK:
Starting this week, I will be sending Math homework home with your child every Wednesday (if he/she does Math with me).  It is due back to school by Friday.  The homework will reinforce what we have been working on in class - your child should be able to do most of it by him/herself, but I have added on some word problems with which he/she may need some help.  

Please let me know if you have any questions.


HIP HOP (Arts program) 
Our hip hop sessions will be on October 11 and October 18.