Welcome to November!

Jacket Racket seemed to be a huge success so thanks to everyone who gave.
This week in Learning:

FLA: continuing the Novel Study but taking a break from reading to work on a personal letter. Where did that art go anyway? We started by writing a practice letter to my mother so the kids could tell her all about me as a teacher! The good copy to hand in will go with the novel we are reading. We will also begin to work on homophones in French.

ELA: Readers Theater. Groups will be made this week and we will begin practicing.

MATH: test on Module 1 this Wednesday. After that we will move into Module 3 which is decimals.

SOCIAL: doing a quick run through of chapter 2 as we are a bit behind in the subject due to changing the classrooms. WE have mostly covered Chap. 2 already, just going more indepth. If you want to chat with your kids, talk about bias in the media, and the Charter of Rights and special rights accorded to First Nations and French and English. New dates have been assigned for current events. Students SHOULD be aware of the date they are to present and send me their presentation IF they are doing on PP. They can also just get in front of the class and present. News must be about politics...municipal, provincial or federal.

MUSIC: Students are repsonsible for the music program on the intercom now. They should have sent me their BLURB, I will correct it and then they can present when they receive a message from me saying their BLurb is good to go. NO class time to continue the blurbs, as the Chromebooks are reserved for Grade 3 SLA's.

ART: Vermeer in pastel.

Religion: Next week we will be doing Social Justice project research, however, this week, we will continue in the book and work on Gods' Holy Name and Maybe start looking at ADVENT.

CHRISTMAS concert:
The students really want to do a play, because I did one last year with the grade 6ers... HOWEVER...they are quite numerous and it is difficult to find  something with many roles. IF we do a play, not everyone will have a part, the others will sing...no democracy here sorry folks! I do however need to know who will even be availalbe on December 7th in the afternoon/evening. We do not have the confirmed date or time yet...but as soon as I know...you will know. If you can at least give me an idea, that would help out a bit. Thanks.

No school Friday...PD day...have fun