December 1 to 5

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

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December 9 = Create a Diorama

This part of the biomes project will be completed at school. 

IN ADVANCE, AT HOME... begin to collect A SHOE BOX / SMALL BOX AND ... any small items that will make a diorama look realistic to the chosen biome and ecosystem. Some ideas are small pebbles, pieces of pine trees, small plastic animals or palm trees, cotton balls for clouds or snow, small shrubs or bushes, plastic plants, shells, sand or anything else. 

These items should be brought to school on December 9th (not before this date) for the dioramas.

 All other materials such as paint, plasticine, pipe cleaners, paper, glue, hot glue guns,... will be provided by the school.

 

Tropical Rainforest sample.

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Arctic Tundra

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Hot Desert 

December 10 and 11 = ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO PRESENT A BIOME RESEARCH PROJECT WITH A DIORAMA!

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 Dec 10 = Skating at Kinsmen Arena.

- bus leaves HES around 10am; returns around 11:45am.

~Remember that helmets are required!

~If you do not own skates, the Kinsmen Arena has many pairs of used skates your child may use, but no helmets. 

Any parents who are available and willing to help tie skates, on  skating day... that would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! Parents can join us as well (no siblings of students please - they have their own skating days). 

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 December 12 - No school.

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

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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 - Reading / learning about biomes (science related).

Reading - novel study... continues... at chapter 13...

 Luke Garner, a 12-year-old boy, lives on a farm with his mother, father, and two brothers. As a third child, Luke and his parents are in violation of a population law. Luke, like all third children, must spend his days hidden or away from public view, or else he will be taken away or imprisoned, as well as his family.

IF YOU ARE ABSENT this week on any day, PLEASE LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION HERE ON YOUTUBE and get caught up. We will read to the end of chapter 24 by this Friday...

AMONG THE HIDDEN CHAPTER 13

Writing focus:  to improve our sentences. When we read a chapter of our novel, we will discuss ideas therein, and sometimes write a journal entry. We are working at augmenting our sentence structure usage and spelling accuracy when we communicate in writing.         

Reading will also be focused on non-fiction sources online for our SCIENCE biomes projects.

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~ Writing - journals, comprehension questions, in literacy classes, and fact gathering for science!

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~Word Work - Unit 13 - 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 the last day of the week.
  - Unit #13 study all list words; Multiple choice TEST on Friday this week.

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Math - Perimeter and Area concepts. One more week! Includes creating a 'Dream Room" with P and A calculations.

Perimeter-climber game 

Area-climber game 

GeoTombs - Area and Perimter game 

Try some games to practice your skills!

- each day in math we practice multiplication facts for 10 to 15 minutes. We have completed x by 1, 2, 10, and are on 5 and 3 this week. 

Practice your MULTIPLICATION FACTS! 
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Health - Keep Moving unit is completed!

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

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Science - SCIENCE BIOME PROJECT DETAILS

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Socials - Cool Country Report - next week!

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

- conflict resolution.
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PE - ringette and pond hockey games during gymnasium days. 

- Outside days will be forest and sledding time. Dress appropriately for these activities. 

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Art -  Winter Wonderland mural challenge starts on Friday!

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Drama - integrated into other subjects. D-103 dress-up day on the morning of December 19!

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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  HANNA for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!