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 that went home on Friday. Thanks!
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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 or real plants / pieces of trees, 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
- Cool Country Report is due.
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December 19 - last day of school before 2 week break.
- we will be going to Idlewild for an hour in the afternoon to the sledding hill if there is enough snow.
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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 project.
Reading - novel study... continues... at chapter 24... and we will finish the book this week.
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.
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.| It's getting suspenseful! |
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~ Writing - journals, comprehension questions, in literacy classes, and fact gathering for Socials!
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~Word Work - Unit 14 - 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 #14 study all list words; Multiple choice TEST on Thursday this week.
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Math - Multiplication!
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 - goal setting and how to achieve a short-term and a long term goal
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Science - SCIENCE BIOME PROJECT DETAILS
Select your day to share / present your project:
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Wednesday, Dec. 10 |
Thursday, Dec. 11 |
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Socials - Cool Country Report - starts!
- students choose a country on Monday and start researching about it. They will learn 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 a SURPRISE part of our novel, Among the Hidden!
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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 sledding time. Dress appropriately.
December 19 PM is sledding at Idlewild.
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Art - create your biome diorama on Tuesday!
- Eye-dea ART = surrealism is our final art project of the year. Next week!
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Drama - integrated into other subjects. D-103 activity on the morning of December 19!
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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 HUDSON for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!
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