October 6th -10th

Hello Families,

This week there are few written assignments, but several reading and data collection assignments. Please ask you child to show you what they have done, please listen to them read from their Social Studies if you can, and please help your child keep you up to date on paperwork and administrative papers that need to come back to school.

This month I have to be absent from the class on several occasions to give and receive training. These opportunities help me bring new ideas to the classroom and improve student learning, and it is necessary for me to have a substitute teacher on these days. Please know that I work to make sure the students have rich learning activities when I am not here, and though I am absent often in October, the days out will be less frequent as the year progresses.

Have a wonderful week,
Kathy Napier

Math:
Error Analysis for last week's Numeration Quiz. Parents need to sign the quiz and the corrections.
New Unit: Factors, Multiples, Prime and Composite Numbers

Social Sciences:
Read Adventure 1 for Thursday ( assigned last Thursday)

ELA
Homereading
2 RAZ Kids books and quizzes done for Friday (if you have no Internet connection form home, your child can bring home print A-Z books instead).

Science
Continue to use your ipad to collect photos of different types of clouds

Paperwork
* School Fundraising has begun! Please look for the large Envelope in your youngest child's bag.
* Students going to the Cross-Country Run at AGRHS must bring back the permission form
* Scholastic Orders due October 16th
* Trick-or Treat form for Halloween Collection boxes due back at school as soon as possible
* Christmas Show permission slip to return to school by Friday (external deadline we must respect)

September 29th - October 3rd

Hello Families,

My apologies for posting later in the week this time - technology problems!

This week's homework:

Math: 
Work in JUMP with dollar and cent notation as well as review of Numeration for a short test late this week.
Note: the colours used for subjects in this post match the colour of the subject duotang for your child.

Revised to Add Information about the Quiz this Friday:
Expanded Form JUMP pages 38-39
Reading and Writing Large Numbers p. 35
Regrouping p. 47-54
Rounding, Estimating, class notes 
Ordering and comparing decimals p.40-44


Language Arts:
Homereading
Preparation for a descriptive writing activity; take a photo of your bedroom with your iPad; download Thinglink

Social Sciences:
Using the Places in Time text, students will complete the accompanying worksheet on the natural resources found in each administrative region of Quebec. This work was begun in class. Due Thursday.

Drama
Practice the lines for your Greek Myth Radio Play. Use Garageband on the iPad to record yourself and work on your expression and fluency.

Paperwork:
*A revised copy of the Standards and Proceedures was sent home Tuesday
*A school newsletter was sent home with the youngest of each family, also on Tuesday
*Please sign and return the Highlights and Owl forms (these forms give our class magazine subscriptions, even when no parents place orders).
*Scholastic Book clubs will come home this week. Families can place orders with cash as well as by cheque.

Have a wonderful week!
Kathy Napier

September 22nd-25th

Hello Families,

Please remember that this Friday is a Pedagogical Day.

Paperwork:
* consent to photograph form to be signed and returned to school
* slip from the government of Quebec about adolescents
* school photo orders should be sent back as soon as possible

Math:
Reviewing of subtraction, pages in JUMP math 6.1 every night


ELA:
Homereading
Corrections to Poetry Response answers and Ebola reading comprehension due Thursday

Have a wonderful week!