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Megan performed with the choir at Confederation Building yesterday.  She put in a lot of hard work preparing for the big event.  I am so proud of you, Megan!

Ms. Cowley organized an archaeology presentation for us today.  We had Ms Joanne Harris visit our school today.  Here are a couple of photos from our day Some of the items that our archaeologist brought to show us Anna examining artifacts from the past. Ms. Harris was a great speaker.

will be going home tomorrow.  See the note below. October 22, 2012 Dear Parents and Guardians, Last week I had intended to send home some samples of reading comprehension activities that your child has completed over the past four weeks.   Unfortunately, due to student absenteeism and conflicting band schedules I had to wait until today to send the work home. Attached to this letter you will see three reading comprehension tests as well as two listening activities. The reading comprehension activities that you see attached to this letter assess base level comprehension.   In other words, the children are not really asked to infer, give personal connections or provide opinions.   This week your child will be given a test that requires him/her to answer higher order questions and I will forward you the results of that test in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please review the stories attached to this letter with your child.   A Personal Introduction and Bella's Bl

Hi everyone, I hope everyone had a great weekend. Just a quick request here... does anyone have the Saturday edition of The Telegram .  If you do have a copy from yesterday or one from last week could you please have your child bring it to school.  I would like to do a newspaper scavenger hunt for one of our Art activities and Saturday's paper will work the best. Thanks

Remember, the mouth always opens to swallow up the larger number.  P.S  I can't believe how many of you actually knew who PacMan was... a blast from the past for your parents.

I gave out a Math test outline today.  I will post it in the Notes section of this blog tonight.

Congratulations to John, the only student in the class who filled out his Ghost Story entry form with the appropriate capital letters, apostrophes and periods. Let's just say I saw some pretty creative ways to spell St. John's today.

Today the students were put into groups to do a little role play about decision making.  The two groups that have presented so far did a great job.  Hats off to Ben, Braydon and Chad as well as J.S., Jake and Sarah.  If the other groups do as good a job as you did today we'll be laughing!

Besides the French quiz note, you'll also see a note regarding how your child is performing in our current Math chapter.  We're hoping to wrap up the unit by the end of this week as we are already behind schedule.

October 15, 2012 Dear Parents and Guardians, Next Tuesday, October 23, 2012 your child will have a French quiz based on the work that we have completed to date.   This quiz will be all matching.   We will focus on some listening comprehension activities in class at a later date. For the purposes of this quiz your child should study the classroom French expressions sheet with the English equivalents in their duo-tang.   They should also study the page of objects in the classroom.   Finally, we have spent the last several classes working on identifying French place names in Newfoundland.   Each child has a sheet in their duo-tang with the French place name as well as the rough English translation.   As stated above, the students will need to match items.   They will be asked to match classroom objects to the appropriate word, French expressions to English and French Place names to English place names.   The objects in the classroom part of the quiz as well as the common Fre

This should help you learn how to say those decimals... Rounding decimals is easy, you'll see. They have two names like you and me. First, you say the name as if there were no dot. Then you say the name of the last place value spot. Example 0.287 First Name: two hundred eighty-seven Last Name:  thousandths

Today the students completed two reading comprehension assessments for me.  I've still got to squeeze in some band students who missed some of the work so look for the completed tests to come home next week.

Tomorrow I am going to be sending home a note about studying Math facts.  Please see a copy of the note on the NOTES page of this blog.

Hi guys, I forgot to get you to write this in your agendas on Friday... you have gym tomorrow!

I hope you are all spending some good quality time with your families this weekend. Grace and me in the pumpkin patch at Taylor's Farm in Kelligrews

from the biggest turkey - your teacher. Don't forget the last day for the food drive is tomorrow. 

A couple of parents have asked me what books I would suggest for at home reading for Grade 5 students.  Here is a list of Grade 5 novels suggested in the Department of Education Program of Studies Guide.    Number the Stars Morris Rumpel and the Wings of Icarus Fog Magic How Come the Best Clues are Always in the Garbage Ticket to Curlew   Shiloh  (We will be doing this one as a novel study later this year.)   Mick Harte was Here   Flight of the Dragon Kyn Where Have You Been, Billy Boy? The Belonging Place   Words of Stone Lily’s Crossing Wringer   (I am currently reading this book to the class.)

Today we started to model decimal numbers with our base 10 blocks.  We will be focusing on decimals in Math for the next week so you may wish to have your child complete some of the corresponding Math links at home.  See my Links page Chapter 2 Numeration.

Today we began webbing our ideas for our ghost stories.  We are entering the St. John's Public Library Ghost Story Writing Competition.  We are treating this story as a process piece so we won't be finishing it up until after the Thanksgiving weekend.