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............................................................................
Please return learning update envelopes. Thanks!
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December 16 - Concert rehearsal in the afternoon; PERFORMANCE AT 6:30pm at Key City Theater.
- rehearsal: bus leaves at 11:45 and returns by 2:40?
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December 17 - please bring in your 8 juice boxes for the turkey dinner
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December 18 - School-wide turkey dinner starts at 11:30am
- Cool Country Report is due.
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December 19 - Drama: D103 = FAKE passport activity! If you want, you can dress up as your character, but it's entirely optional to dress up!
- last day of school before 2 week break.
Happy holidays to everyone!
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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 includes researching your chosen country for the Socials & drama projects.
Reading and Writing focus: to improve our sentences, work at grammar usage, and starting every sentence with a different word. We will also keep working at spelling accuracy when we communicate in writing.
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~ Writing - journals, comprehension questions, in literacy classes, and fact gathering for Socials!
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~Word Work - Unit 15 continues January 5th - 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 #15 study all list words; Multiple choice TEST January 9th.
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Math - Multiplication: box multiplication = 1-d x 2-d.
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 and 4 this week.
Practice your MULTIPLICATION FACTS!
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Health - 'Health Matters' in the new year.
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Career Education - New year's goals in January.
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Science - Great work grade 4's!
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Socials - Cool Country Report!
- students chose a country & researched about it. They learned about many things... from it's location, to languages spoken, leaders and famous people, to food, culture, clothing, exports, ... and looks like this...
This project is directly linked to the SURPRISE part of our novel, Among the Hidden!
Now that you all have a new passport...
Is your new identity helpful? you must do more research to figure this out!
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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 walking to Idlewild and back.
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Art - Hopefully, we have time for... Eye-dea ART = surrealism is our final art project of the year.
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Drama - integrated into other subjects. D-103 activity on the morning of December 19!
Preparation:
a) Research your own job and be able to state which skills you have.
b) Optional: you can dress the part of your character as you found out while researching clothing.
c) Also, research other facts about your country and get to know its culture.
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Technology Skills - learning how research a country, 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 BRIXTON for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!
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