October 14 to 17

  Important Information and Dates:

 Weekly reminder SAFETY NOTICE:  We have students with severe allergies in our classroom. 

·    ALLERGIES to **cashews, **pistachios, and **pets.

Please be respectful of this and be aware of what you bring in your lunch. 

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We will be starting FSA TESTS soon...

What are the FSA TESTS?

Info: option to withdraw from FSA TESTS

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October 15 - PHOTO RETAKES 

 & Lock-down drill @ 9:30.

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October 16 - Earthquake drill @ 11:15.

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 October 24 - Pro-D Day.

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October 27 - Evacuation drill @ 2:15.

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HIGHLANDS ART FUNDRAISER...

The art is being sent home on Tuesday, October 28^th.

Please read the instructions on the back of the art piece.

Order anything you choose! Write down your online order and order reference number.

Please return the completed order sheet AND ARTWORK in the envelope back to OUR CLASS for Wednesday, Nov 12th.

*Even if you do not order anything, please return the art piece in the envelope back to class.

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 October 31 = Hallowe'en costumes...

We are inviting our Huskies to wear their Halloween costumes to school on Friday the 31st. Please do not send any props as things can get lost or wrecked. We are also asking that no masks be worn. If you are not comfortable sending your child to school in their costume, then please feel free to dress as per a 'typical' day at school.

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Monday, November 10th - REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY in the gym at 11am. ___ and ___ are the wreath carriers.

*All students are asked to dress in black, white, and/or red if possible.

Tuesday, November 11 =Stat. Holiday

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November 21 = Pro-D & no school for students

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December 5 = Communicating Student Learning (Reports - term one) sent home.

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December 12 - No school.

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December 16 - Concert rehearsal in the afternoon; PERFORMANCE AT 6:30pm.

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December 18 - School-wide turkey dinner starts at 11:30am

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December 19 - last day of school before 2 week break.

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January 5, 2026 = first day of school in the new year!

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 Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - FSA LITERACY AND NUMERACY STANDARDIZED TESTS. There is also an online component. We will finish these as soon as possible.

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~Word Work - Unit 6 - since students are starting from different levels of spelling, there will be different groups, according to where they are at, as observed in class. Students may increase or decrease in levels, depending on their written outputs. 

- All units are handed out on Mondays and then the rest needs to be worked on at home.

 *Students are responsible for bringing home their "working with words" handout at the beginning of each week. There are activities on the pages; practicing word patterns, meanings of words, etc,.. Students must return the page for grading on the last day of the week.

  - work at the word and letter patterns, connect the sounds letters make,...

  - HAND IN your FINISHED 'WORD WORK' HANDOUT ON or before FRIDAY.
  - Unit #6 study all list words; Multiple choice TEST on Friday this week.

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Writing - 

Creative Writing - Under the Rug...

 

We are writing connected sentences to create a story based on the picture.

The goal is to keep working at increasing our accuracy of written communication.

***We are working at improving our grammar skills: understanding the four types of sentences, sentence fragments versus run-on sentences, the three punctuation 'stops,' and capitalization usage as well. Of course, proper spelling is an essential piece, too.***  

 

How To Write Complete Sentences

Criteria	Check
My sentence begins with an uppercase letter.
My sentence ends with a period, exclamation point, or a question mark.
All lowercase letters are formed correctly (tall letters are tall, short letters are short, and letters that are supposed to be written below the line are written below the line).
My sentence has at least one subject (the ‘who’ or what part of the sentence).
My sentence has a predicate (the details / what is happening part).

 

Under the Rug

Due Friday, October 17, in class, during laptop time.

- Hook your reader.

- Write in Power-point program and paste an image on all nine slides that matches each section or slide of your story.

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Math -  Addition and subtraction with and without grouping.

- includes Menu Math - lining up decimals, real-world word problems, and more. 

Click to practice...

Adding-3-and-4-digit-numbers

Math/2-digit-subtraction-review

More two-digit-subtraction-2 

3-digit-subtraction-with-regrouping 

Try some games to practice your skills!
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Health - Keep Moving unit.

 - the importance of physical activity and health benefits.

- the three main types of physical activity: strength, endurance, flexibility.

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Career Education - goal setting and how to achieve a long term goal 

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Science -  Scientific Method Test on Monday.

ADST / Science - Building Rockets after Thanksgiving!

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Socials - Mapping skills: using online and real maps to learn about continents, oceans, Canadian provinces and territories, and their respective capital cities. Also, how to read maps, using a scale, legend, directional indicators, and more.

 Click below, in order, to practice...

1. Continents & oceans  tutorial.

 2. Identify the Continents (timed) 

 3. Continents-and-oceans-globe spinning game

4.Canadian Provinces / Territories 

5. Find the Canadian capital cities! 

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Social Emotional Learning - SEL = Friendology Program (with Ms. Kathleen, our school counselor)

-  being kind to yourself - your inner ninja

- making friends 
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PE - Tag games inside and outside - strategy games like Swamp Ball and Guard the Pin. 

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Art - Art portfolios - the 7 elements of art.

7+elements+of+art 

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Drama - various activities integrated where possible
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD and MS Power-Point effectively
                              - on laptops.

Practice your typing skills... Dance mat typing! 

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House Teams - Wear your colour or HUSKIES GEAR on Fridays!
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CONGRATS to AIDEN for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!