Daylight Savings this weekend

Shabbat Shalom
See everyone Monday

October Newsletter

October Newsletter went home today. I hope it's informative.
SMILE !!! Individual Photos - Wednesday, November 4

The students have had an excellent week. Everyone is working hard!

Math Trio

Math - P.O.W. & Pink Sheet & Multiplication Quiz tomorrow
LA - Spelling 4 Workbook & Test Friday

*reminders*
Reading Rainbow #1 due tomorrow
Winter Uniform starts this week

Spelling Workbooks In!

We're excited about our new Spelling Workbooks - which have finally arrived !!
Spelling 4 - Workbook and Test on Friday. This will be a double test (Chapter 3 & 4).

Math - P.O.W. - due Thursday as per usual

Remember: Stories due tomorrow - Rough Copy O.K./ Good Copy= you're ahead of the game

The Sun Came Out!

Aquarium Field Trip information has gone home in the yoman today (blue sheet). We're looking forward to the "Staying Alive" program on November 10. Please send $11.50 to school to cover the cost of the trip. We do apologize for the expense, but VTT is dealing with a tight year financially.

Journals were completed in class today, so no new homework.
A few Castle in the Attic booklets still to come in (due: today!!)

Our Grammar Detectives activity in the computer lab is finished, so the intentional mistakes in the blog entries will be corrected today. Ask your students to show you www.wordle.net!

Pro D Day tomorrow

Enjoy your weekend. Teachers will be gathering to discuss creative ways of incorporating physical activity into the daily curriculum.

Morah Etti joined the 4C's at Granville Island Stage today. She said the students got a lot out of the presentation by Gordon Korman and Tim Wynne-Jones.

Storywriting

We are starting to collect some Grade 4 writing in our scrapbooks. We look forward to showing you our scrapbooks during Goal-Setting Conferences.

LA - Story writing - 1 - 3 page story due one week today - Wednesday, October 28
4 Criteria:
1. Main character - child your age
2. Two different settings
3. Journey
4. Positive magic

Other homework due next week:
Monday - Castle in the Attic Booklet & Read Chapters 11 & 12
Thursday - Reading Rainbow #1

Friday - No Sessions - Pro-D Day

Tuesday, October 20

Math due Thursday - as per usual (P.O.W. & Problem-Solving worksheet)
LA - Spelling 3 due Friday

Reading Rainbow assignments are starting to come in early. Bravo to the early birds! Be sure to pace yourselves so there's no last minute rush. Deadline : Thursday, October 29

Castle in the Attic - Read Chapters 11 & 12 for Monday
- Comprehension Booklet also due Monday

Monday's Homework

Language Arts -
Castle in the Attic Booklet (Review of Chapters 1 - 6) - due Monday, October 26
This activity is a multi-intelligence approach to reading comprehension. A variety of visual formats, including Character Attributes Webs, Venn Diagrams & Sociograms are combined with a variety of answering styles (short, long, definition, one word).

Keep reading two chapters/week - and remember your signature page!

Shabbat Shalom

Have a restful weekend. See everyone on Monday.

Hinky Pinky

We had some fun with rhyming riddles today. Ask your students about a recent CBC contest called "Hinky Pinky". Make up your own!

Reading Rainbow #1 - sample mark sheet went home in yoman today

Spelling 2 - Test & Workbook due tomorrow

Standard Fare

We worked hard today!

Regular Routines are well underway:
Monday - Castle in the Attic Review & Activities
Tuesday - Spelling Pretest & Small Groups
Wednesday - Writing Activities & Math
Thursday - P.O.W. & Math Homework due
Friday - Spelling Unit due / Spelling Test

Remember -
ART on Wednesdays (our holiday quilts are on display in the 4C classroom)
Thursdays are S.Q.U.I.R.T. days - bring novel!!!
Social Studies on Thursday with Mrs. Piccinato
Science on Friday with Mrs. Quirke

Terrific Tuesday

Language Arts - Spelling 2 Workbook (zeroxed copy) - due Friday

Math Focus Workbook & P.O.W. - due Thursday
Math Focus - pp. 9 - 16 & 17 - Page 17 will be marked as a take-home quiz

Happy Long Weekend

We had an excellent Library Launch for our Animals & Adaptations projects today. Good work! If you have some quiet moments on the weekend, get started on your Reading Rainbow assignment. See everyone bright and early on Tuesday morning.

Thursday Times Tables

Practice times tables for three minutes every night. Increase accuracy and speed. Worksheets available for practice at home.

Writers' Festival on Granville Island

Thursday, October 22, 2009
A notice about a wonderful opportunity for our students to be inspired by Gordon Korman & Tim Wynne-Jones comes home today. Please read over and send $8.00 to Mrs. Quirke in order to participate.

Spelling Program Launch

We started our Modern Curriculum Press Spelling Program today. Each week we will do a pretest on Tuesday, word study and activities during the week, and a final test on Friday.

Spelling Workbook exercises due Friday
Spelling Test - Friday AM

Ask your curious scientists how we admired the spider's craftsmanship today!

Sunshine!!!

Castle in the Attic - we had a giggle as the comedian, Victor Borge (remember him?), did a rendition of reading with punctuation marks. Then, we added correct punctuation to a summary of Chapters 5 & 6. Read Chapters 7 & 8 for next week.

LA - Journal due Friday ("My Weekend")

Math - P.O.W. - due Thursday

Moms & Dads - still some "Introducing Your Child" sheets to come in.

Free-To-Read Recommendation

Congratulations to Jacqueline Belzberg for winning the September Free-To -Read prize. She reviewed Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining by Anne Mazer. It sounds like an inspirational book!

Have a happy weekend.

Typical Thursday - Happy October

Remember Science quiz tomorrow. Have text in class.

Reading Rainbow #1 (Picture Book) - Students, read over the assignment and bring your questions to class next Thursday. Choose the book you want to review. Be sure it was very special to you. Do not start your written assignment until after our discussion next week.

Typically, every Thursday we mark our P.O.W. and have our S.Q.U.I.R.T. time.

Students need to be reminded about the following Security & Playground Routines:
1. No rough play
2. Line up at gate as soon as bell goes
3. Follow adult leader on sidewalk