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I don't even know who said this, but it is really funny.  While Ms. Pyke was teaching how to multiply 2 digit by 2 digit today one student said something like the following, "When am I going to use this? I already have my strategies." To us teachers and I'm sure to many parents (if not all) strategies did not even exist back in the dark ages when we were in school.  The fact that at least one student thinks that the traditional way of completing multiplication is crazy is pretty funny to me. Anyways, tonight your child has gone home with some 2 digit by 2 digit Math work to do.  We have assigned the first two rows tonight and the next two will be for tomorrow night.  Feel free to do them all tonight if things are going well.  The students used mini whiteboards today to complete their calculations and many were doing quite well before they had to leave for full band.  Tomorrow we will be showing the students the distributive property of multiplying....

Between the two storms days last week and the band students coming and going it was a real catch up day.  Most students finished their logo contest, their snow day writing and their Sikhism work. Tomorrow we're going to really get at those transitional phrases.

This week we are going to try to use transitional phrases in our writing.  We are going to write about what we did during our extended weekend and then we will polish the writing with some transitional words.  You wouldn't believe the difference words like next, then and finally can make to your writing. Here are two summaries that I wrote about how I spent the past two days.  Which one is better?  Why? Summary 1 We headed out to Glovertown for a Newfoundland pony sleigh ride.  We had to wait until Saturday because as you all know the weather was pretty desperate on Friday.  It takes three hours to get to Glovertown, but it is well worth the drive.  We roasted marshmallows, ate tasty icicles and took a peaceful spin through the country with a Newfoundland pony hauling us along.  To top it all off we stopped in Clarenville for something to eat.  I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that I could eat for free because it was my ...

Hi everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your snow day.  Don't forget it's ice-cream day tomorrow.

On Valentine's Day each student was given a ceramic egg to paint.  Maddie's parents generously offered to come to each of the Grade 5 English classes to give us all a lesson in ceramics.  The results were beautiful. Many thanks to Maddie's parents for including our class in the Art activity.

This Friday I have organized a presenter to come to speak to our class.  We are going to hear a presentation about handicaps and the devices that people with handicaps use to help them in their daily life.  This presentation will support our Health outcomes.

Last Friday my class was rewarded with a movie as they won the Recorder contest for the first half of the year.  Each class Ms. Cumbie places a sticker on the reward chart to indicate if everyone remembered their recorder and Music bag.  I have never had a class win this reward so I was pretty proud of all my students. As a special treat Ms. Cumbie gave each student an ice-cream.  Oh, and we watched the movie Akeelah and the Bee , it's a movie about a spelling bee so it tied in nicely with the bee we just had at school.