Our First Colour House Day

Hi everyone,
I hope that your child let you know that tomorrow (Friday) is our first colour house day! Every student in our class has been assigned to a colour team (located on the colour house tab). I look forward to seeing all the blue, green, orange and red tomorrow morning.

Also, Monday is a PA Day for students. Classes will resume on Tuesday.

I will be sending home a sign up sheet for conferences. Some of you had a chance to sign up at Meet the Teacher earlier this month, but others still need to do so. Please pick a couple of times slots (15 mins) that work for you and return the sheet. I will fill these times on a first come first served basis.  If the original time you picked no longer works for you, please let me know.  The conference is a time to celebrate the success of your child, and he or she will be leading it and showing you various work we have been doing in class.

Wondering about Halloween?  We will be celebrating as a school on Friday, Oct. 31.  Students are invited to wear their costume if you (parents/guardians) agree.  Costumes need to be school appropriate ~ e.g.  not too scary, bloody, etc. They can also wear orange and black as an alternative. Please do not allow your child to bring any masks, props or any parts of their costume that are irreplaceable.  I realize that Halloween and the adventures of trick or treating also occur on that Friday night, so I will do my best to make sure all costumes return home in the same condition as they arrived. However, accidents do sometimes happen.  If you have any questions or concerns please email me arogers@scdsb.on.ca, leave a note in the agenda, or call the school.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Ms. Rogers

Words of the Week

Happy Monday,
Hello everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. Mac and I went to the pumpkin patch yesterday- I am pretty sure it could have snowed and I wouldn't have been surprised. It was quite chilly.
You may have noticed words of the week in your child's agenda. These are not spelling words. We use these words in our word study program and they are usually linked to one of the curriculum areas that we are studying. This weeks words are: ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety.  I've noticed that in our math work these words are being misspelled regularly.

Happy Weekend!

HI everyone.
Happy Friday. This week has flown by!  The weather was quite agreeable and we only had one recess that ended up being an indoor one. That's pretty good considering that it seemed to rain a lot this week! I hope your child talked to you about his/her Stone Soup yesterday. Mrs. Scharnhorst helped the students make some yummy soup. Thank you for sending in items to help make the soup.  I was really surprised to see how much soup they ate. Some even came back for seconds.
We also had a healthy eating presentation for the Dairy Farmer's of Ontario. Charlotte spoke about the four food groups and food items that would fit in each. It was a very informative and interactive presentation. The students got to play games on the smartboard and help a fictional character plan a healthy meal.
Please check out the Math Page and the Colour Team Page, both have been updated.

Recently I have been asked by a few parents whether I am going to provide Raz Kids (online reading program) again this year. I am really on the fence about it- unfortunately the fee is not covered by the school and is quite high.  I offered it to my students last year, but I found that it wasn't used as well as I hoped. If you think that you would be on board with encouraging your child to read an online book nightly, please let me know via the agenda, or my email arogers@scdsb.on.ca

Have a wonderful weekend,
Ms. Rogers

We are going to need some detectives...

to find these turkeys!  Wow, what a great job everyone did today. Here are some of our creations!
Happy Thanksgiving!

Working with Words and Disguising Turkeys

Hey everyone,
Just a quick message-  you may have noticed that there were words in your child's agenda this week. They are NOT spelling homework words. Every week we have words we work with for our literacy centres. I asked the students to put them in their agendas as practice for printing and spelling. If you choose to have your child work with these words at home as extra work then that's okay too. Sometimes the words will be theme based (holidays, events at school, etc.) and other times they will be curriculum linked (math words, punctuation words, etc.).


Turkey Disguises- a note also came home in the agenda today about disguising a turkey. On Thursday students will be decorating a paper turkey to disguise it from Farmer Mack Nugget from the story written by Dav Pilkey, "'Twas the Night before Thanksgiving." Students had a chance today to brainstorm possible disguises.  Turkeys could be disguised as doctors, construction workers, other birds, animals, etc.  The whole reason for coming up with a disguise is to avoid getting caught (and eaten) at Thanksgiving!


Happy Tuesday!
A.Rogers

Almost Turkey Time

Hello,
One more week and then I am sure some of you will be enjoying a nice turkey dinner and spending quality time with family.

Just a reminder- tomorrow is PICTURE DAY. I believe they are using a green screen, so the photographer has asked that no one wears GREEN.

Thank you to everyone that came to Meet the Teacher. It was great to see so many of you there. The students seemed to enjoy showing you their desks and around the classroom. I'm really excited about working along side of you to make this a great year for your child.

I hope you have had a chance to explore our class blog- my goal is to update it weekly. I would like to post pictures of activities we are doing in the classroom, but I'm just figuring out whether I can make the site private.

Please check out the Math & Literacy Pages as well. They will give you an idea of what we are doing and how you can help your child at home!

Enjoy your week,
Ms. Rogers