December 18th

To bring tomorrow
- completed Science sheet!  Make sure to study for our Science test!
- covered piece of cardboard wrapped in tin foil
- small baggie of candy
- box of graham crackers
- plastic bag for carrying it home Friday

- Spelling Test Friday
- Tree of Warmth and Raffle Tickets
- newsletter went home today; online newsletter available

Thursday and Friday - Musical Performance in Gym 1:00 pm for students involved in Musical during Fine and Performing Arts Friday.

Christmas Around the World Link:
http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm  Santa Net

http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/ Why Christmas.com

Happy Friday - New Spelling Words

Good afternoon, 
Here are next week's Spelling words.  We unfortunately didn't all have our homework in today so we will have another Spelling list next week. 

Please remind your child that Spelling and Reading LOGS are due on Friday.

Peach Pumpkins 10 words - Theme of the Week: Double Consonants

less
tell
well
will
still
off
letter
little
silly
happy

Yellow Cucumbers Theme of the Week:  vowel sounds "a" "ough",  short u sounds, er and est endings
awful
called
falling
mall
small
straw
drawing
strongest
longer
song
along
bought
brought
rough
tough

Green Tomatoes - Theme of the Week Double consonants

follow
matter
summer
million
dollar
scissors
cattle
address
office
suppertime
blizzard
penny
wrapper
wallet
occurrence
village
collide
battle

Homework for this weekend:
(1) Colour Science sheet (11 x 14 sheet with a list of Food Chain Terms)
(2) Some students have a Green Bellwork sheet for homework (practicing punctuation/capitals)
(3) xmas hat day - Monday
(4) Raffle tickets
(5) Comm folders - bring back Monday

Please return report card covers if you haven't yet

Have a great weekend!!!! Let's hope for NO MORE SNOW!!! 

Hello parents and students!

So... it's only been a few weeks since I've posted and I am SO very sorry - between getting report cards done, planning lessons and tending to a very high energy toddler, I feel very stretched some days!  Thank you for understanding. However, I am posting before I go home today so that I know the Spelling words are up for the planner!

Peach Pumpkins (10 words)

candy
went
sent
take
like
puppy
time
didn't
by
my

*Theme of the Week:  Spelling long I sound, long E sound spelled Y, contractions

Green Tomatoes (18 words)

blush
crutch
crunch
grumpy
much
umpire
uncle
none
does
fuel
cute
cubicle
human
future
usual
uniform
used
beautiful

*Our theme of the week is short "U" and long "U" sounds

Yellow Cucumbers (15 words)

into
today
without
something
become
upon
myself
everybody
everyone
maybe
outside
basketball
homework
skateboard
earthquake

Theme of the Week:  Spelling compound words

Homework for the Weekend
(1).  Read (several students need to bring back their SPELLING SHEETS)
(2).  Report Card Envelope (return and front cover signed)
(3).  Science sheet (consumer, decomposer, producer) - coloured and done neatly
(4). Music - there are 9 students who need to bring their music sheets from LAST WEEK!!!!!

Have a great weekend!!!!

Happy Sunday Afternoon!

My apologies for such a late post!  Luckily, our weekend is a bit longer as tomorrow is "Report Card Writing Day," meaning no school for intermediate students. 

Since this is a very short week for us (Friday is an NID),  there will be no Spelling words this week.  I will expect students to read for 15 minutes without logging it.  Unfortunately, there have been quite a few students not submitting their Spelling sheets/Reading logs on Friday.  This is considered homework and is part of our Work Habits outcome for Term 1.  Class Do Jo points were given out for those who handed theirs in. 

This week, we will be selecting an animal that lives in the habitat of our diorama (sub-boreal, desert, temperate rain forest) to research.  We will be looking for its body and behavior adaptations.  Once we have collected our facts, we will draw a labeled diagram of our animal.  Our labels must be written in full sentences and tell how the structure/body part helps the animal survive in its habitat (and what they use it for).  Every animal is tailored to fit in their environment and every part of its body is useful for something. 

Students can then add a model or picture of this animal in their diorama.  This assignment is due on MONDAY. 

If you'd like to begin at home, you can start researching the types of animals that live in your habitat. 

Sub Boreal -- moose, beavers, bears, foxes, deer, squirrel

Temperate - grizzly bears, salmon, moose, cougars

Desert - insects,  mice, snakes

See you on Tuesday!!!

New Spelling Words for November 18 - 22!

Lights out! What a crazy day today was with no electricity this afternoon!

SHHHHH~ Here's a hint for 2 of Friday's Bonus Spelling words:  RECEIVE and BELIEVE!  So many students misspelled these 2 words on today's Spelling test.  Now, you get another chance this week!

Green Tomatoes (most of the class) 18 words - this week's focus: short I and Long I sound.

since
which
inch
string
picnic
shrimp
title
mind
wild
decide
why
skyscraper
buy
right
lightning
cypress
bicycle

Yellow Cucumbers - 15 words - This week's focus is to spell with long vowel sounds
(CC, SB, KR, CW, GW, LH)
way
these
niece
might
show
float
brain
mean
close
tried
cube
uniform
stayed
price
usually


Peach Pumpkins ( TA, CF) 10 words - long a and long i words
place
make
making
help
here
want
nice
to
two
into

Homework for the Weekend
(1). Finish DIORAMA - due Monday - most students are already finished and MANY of the dioramas look fantastic!

(2).  Loonie Drive/PAC fundraiser

(3).  Field Trip form - due Monday

Have a great weekend!

Here They Are! New Spelling Words!

Everyone did a great job presenting the "Flanders Field" poem at our Remembrance Day assembly on Friday.  I was so pleased with our performance and how we all memorized the entire poem and we all remembered where to pause! Kudos to everyone!  Thank you very much to Connor, Mikayla, Alessia and Emma for introducing our poem in front of the school! That took a tremendous amount of courage and you did fantastic!  

Green Tomatoes (majority of class)
18 words

then
else
edge
when
tenth
empty
sketch
spelling
easy
eager
sneakers
mean
fifteen
receive
piece
believe
people
squeeze 

Yellow Cucumbers  (CC, SB, CW, LH, PV, GW, KR) 
15 words 

swimming
swam
getting
coming
came
having
doing
ended
happened
happening
started
joked
received
smiled
smiling

Peach Pumpkins (TA, CF) 
10 words

some
come
home
fun
funny
run
running
ran
us
use 

Homework for the Weekend
(1). Bring Library books for exchange on Tuesday morning!

(2). Bring a shoe box for our diorama - we looked at examples at school on Friday. Remember that your diorama is for the planning page you completed last week about a habitat in BC (sub boreal, desert and temperate rainforest).  Google "habitat diorama for kids."  Bring all your supplies on Tuesday.  You received a yellow criteria on Friday for what the expectations are!

Dioramas are due NEXT MONDAY, Nov 18th

(3). Write your Spelling words into your Planner for a chance of 3 do jo points!