Notes+for+Parents

Notes for Parents
 * Week of September 11-15, 2017 **

This week, we **practiced class routines**. These will be very important for our three grades to work well together. Our class has places for everything and ways we can hand in work, ask questions and do activities so that students can work independently. We also **create class expectations**. Students came up with the classroom rules for this year as a group. They are: 1 - Be kind and respectful to everything and everyone. 2 - Be safe and make everyone feel safe. 3 - Respect the learning of others. 4 - Listen actively to the speaker. 5 - Be responsible and work hard. 6 - We all need to be helpful. We have also created a list of **classroom jobs** and expectations for each job. When students arrive in the morning, from 7:50-8:05 am, students will help get our room ready for the day. We will have time in the afternoon most days to work on class jobs too.

Students are being assessed on **spelling words this week**. There are about 300 high-frequency words we will attempt to master this year. Students have done 20 minute spelling tests each day this week to see which words they already know how to spell, then they will choose 10 words a week they need to practice. Our **morning routine Tuesday-Friday** will have students doing a spelling practice activity, then a practice test with a partner. If they get the spelling word correct 4 times in the week, they can then select a new word for the next week. If they don't get it correct 4 times (even if it's 3 times right), they will have that word in their spelling list for the next week. We have **done fire drills and will do a lockdown procedure** on Friday. During our fire drill, the whole school was able to exit the building in under a minute!

__ Gr. 3 Math Learning Goals this week __
 * Add 2-digit number to a 1-digit number (12 +8 = 20) with an open number line
 * Learn about math centres
 * Learn about math procedures

__ Gr. 4 Math Learning Goals this week __
 * Add 2 digit numbers (34 + 15 = 49) with an open number line
 * Learn about math centres
 * Learn about math procedures

__ Gr. 5 Math Learning Goals this week __
 * Add 2-digit decimal numbers (0.34 + 0.15) with an open number line
 * Learn about math centres
 * Learn about math procedures

__ Math Words to Know - same ones from last week __
 * Array
 * Open number line
 * Addition
 * Sum
 * Expanded form
 * Word form

__Literacy Learning Goals this week __
 * Show how we can spell
 * Establish expectations together for Read-to-Self and Write-to-Self time
 * Practice routines


 * Week of September 18-22, 2017 **

Tuesday will be a half PD day. Students are dismissed at 11 am. We will have a whole school Celebrate activity before hand at 10 am. We will be doing key Literacy work in the morning, so attendance is important on that day.