Holiday Brunch

We are having our Annual Holiday Brunch on Friday, December 23rd. I am sending home a letter about our brunch with the bottom portion to be returned with any contributions you are able to make. Thank You!

Bake-sale, Water-bottle Fundraiser, Medieval Times Update and Student Led Conferences

We had a very successful bake sale and water bottle fundraiser last week. Thank you all for supporting our fundraising efforts.
It was great to be able to meet and discuss your son or daughters progress at our student led conferences last week. Thanks you so much for your time as it is greatly appreciated.

Please check to see what your son/daughter learned today in math, as well as the short note about our Medieval Times field trip next week on Thursday, December 1st. If you have any questions please email myself or phone the school.

Thank You

Rememberance Day and Progress Reports

We had a very touching Remembrance Day ceremony today. Thank you to all the classes and students who made it such a great success.

Please look in your son/daughters agenda for their Progress Report and a schedule for available times for our Student Led Conferences. I still have times available as indicated on the schedule. If you would like to arrange a time please email me or phone the school. I have also included specific conference times that were selected during our Meet the Teacher Night.

Poinsettia's, Breakfast with Santa and Modern Learners+ ==

I hope everyone enjoyed the wonderful weather we had this weekend. I am sending home the following forms in student agendas today. We are sending home Poinsettia Order Forms, Breakfast with Santa and Modern Learners, modern learning: A guide for parents from SCDSB.

Seesaw

I have included a letter about Seesaw in your son/daughters agenda. Please take a minute to read over the letter about the digital learning journal and return the bottom portion of the form if you are interested.

Thank You

Thanksgiving Weekend and the Terry Fox Run

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend! We had a fantastic day for the Terry Fox run and demonstrated a huge amount of resilience as we walked and ran many times around the school yard.

We have also started our Global Read Aloud book entitled "Pax." We will soon start sharing our ideas with a class in Wisconsin.

Please check the agenda for the October to December Hot Lunch order form.

Global Read Aloud and the Terry Fox Run

We started the Global Read Aloud today and started reading the book entitled "Pax." We are partnered with a class in Wisconsin. We are very excited to share our thoughts about this book and get to know these students in the United States.

We will be having our Terry Fox run on Friday and we are encouraging students to wear red and white to show support for The Terry Fox Foundation.

Meet the Teacher Evening

We are having our annual "Meet the Teacher" evening tomorrow night from 5 - 7 pm. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow night! We also have our Book Fair open for you to check out.  We will also have Tosorontio Spirit wear available for purchase.

Reminder

Tomorrow is picture day!! 

Representing, Comparing and Ordering Numbers

This week we have been working hard learning to represent numbers in various ways, as well as ordering whole numbers and decimal numbers. Today we spent some time modelling and ordering decimal numbers to thousandths. Working with numbers less than 1 can be re-enforced and practiced at home easily by talking about money.

We have also been focused on improving our descriptive writing by learning how to include more detail in sentences using adjectives and adverbs.

Remember that "Picture Day," and "Meet the Teacher" are next week.
Have a great weekend!

Math, Meet the Teacher and Picture Day

We are learning about how numbers can be shown (represented) in a variety of forms. Please find examples of numbers from 1 to 1 000 000 in different forms to bring into class.  You can look in books, magazines, newspaper or on the web.

"Meet the Teacher" pizza pre-order forms are due tomorrow, Thursday, Sept 22nd

"Meet the Teacher" is from 5 -7pm on  Thursday, Sept 29th
Picture Day is on Wednesday, September 28th

See you on the 29th!

Great Week!

We had a fun time brainstorming and creating floor plans for a re-designed learning space today.
There are a few more forms going home in the agendas tonight. Please look for the Food Order forms with the youngest and only, as well as the September Newsletter.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Hello all,

We have a couple forms in the agenda tonight.
Terry Fox form for the youngest and only in our school.
We also have sent home the School Cash online form.
Please check your son or daughters agenda for a sentence about something they learned or enjoyed today.
Also check our class Twitter feed for our amazing Paper Tower ten minute challenge we started our day with!
Thanks

Great 4th Day in Grade 5/6!!

Just a reminder to return the forms that were sent home yesterday if you haven't had a chance yet.
We have Gym on Day 5's which is Monday, September 12th.
Have a great weekend!

Thanks

Great 3rd Day of school!!
I have sent home the following forms in their Agendas. If you could take some time to read them over and return them to the school (if applicable) that would be great.
Safe Arrival, Acknowledgements and Permissions, Student Information form and a Student Accident Insurance Form.
Thank You

Great first and second day of school!
Yesterday we had fun designing "mini action figure" contraptions to launch a mini figure from one point to another. We also presented our designs and discussed how we where successful.

Today, we brainstormed a giant list of expectations for our class this year as well as played a community building game called "Zip, Zap, Zop!"
Students are reminded to have two sets of shoes (indoor and outdoor) as well as a book to read. It would also be helpful to have a pencil sharpener and pencil crayons.
Thanks