December 1-5, 2014

Well, tis the season....last month of 2014 and (by far) the busiest month of school.
I am glad to see all of the students safely back at school today after Friday's snow storm. Although we had just over half of the students come to school on Friday, it was still a productive day.
This will be a short week with an early dismissal on Wednesday (at 2:15) and no school on Friday (PD Day). Please ensure your child has the appropriate transportation at 2:15 on Wednesday.
Check out the review spelling words for the week and the "What's Coming Up" tab at the top.

Here is the week:
Tuesday- library (PLEASE send all library books back to school)
Wednesday- Popcorn ($0.50) and Early Dismissal at 2:15pm
Thursday-Spelling Test
Friday-No School

Language Arts
Spelling-see words on tab; this is a review week of words over the past 5 weeks.
Writing-Discussing the difference between facts and opinions (topic: Autumn), and summarizing an Autumn story.
Story Prompt-Students will be rearranging a 'Building Snowman' story and using the pictures to help write a story of their very own.
Phonics-reviewing long vowels (a,e,i,o,u)

Math
Patterns-we are nearing the end and are reviewing repeating, increasing, and decreasing patterns. We will review this until Christmas break.
Numbers to 100-Strategies for counting to 100 and strategies to count money.

Science
Hot and Cold Temperatures-We have been monitoring the weather changes in Leduc for the past few weeks and students are starting to recognize the different changes in temperature and how it affects them. This week we will be looking at temperature and what clothing is appropriate for which weather, how temperature changes throughout the day, and what heat sources are around our house/school.
I encourage you to talk with your child about the temperature and what clothes they think they may need for the weather. This will start to challenge them to think independently and make connections to their classroom learning.

Social
We are discussing the "early days" of Meteghan, Iqaluit, and Saskatoon. The students are learning about how a community changes over many years and what changes look like in these different communities. The changes we are focusing on are: transportation, housing, main industries, etc.

Gym
This is the second (and final) week of Mission Impossible. The kids are loving it and doing really well at going through the course set up in the gym.