Week of November 18 -22, 2013

Friday HW
Thank you for the support our school's fundraising cookie sale received from students in our class!  According to our Principal's announcement our school raised over $1000 in a very short time.  Ms. Dennis also announced that we had to order more cookies to fill all the orders, meaning that some students at our school (I'm not sure which ones) will receive their cookies on Tuesday next week.
1.  Spelling Dictation # 8 on Monday.  no other homework (text activities were completed in class).

Thursday HW
1.  Fundraising cookie sale continues (and ends) tomorrow.
2.  French verbs sheet.

Wednesday HW
1.  No homework today -- all day field trip.

We had a good day at Warren Park Outdoor Education Centre today, in perfect weather conditions.  We made artworks to communicate a message with natural, found materials and filmed the results with iPads.  The students made many relevant and thoughtful contributions during our carpet discussions and our conduct was generally appropriate.  However I will continue to work on ordinary behaviour skills with the class (lining up to travel, transitions, listening with eye contact and silence, accountable talk) that remain a bit of a barrier to full enjoyment of the trip.  Thank you very much to the two parent volunteers, Ms. Hay and Mr. Kurvits, for their support for today's excursion.  It is much appreciated.

Tuesday HW
1.  Warren Park Trip form and fee.  The trip is on Wednesday, November 20 from 9-3.  Students should dress for the weather and pack a lunch.
2.  A picture for "A Person I Admire" should be in class tomorrow if you do not plan to draw one on your own.
3.  Spelling Cycle Activities (Alphabetical Order, Syllabication and Derivatives) for cycle #8.  There are many proper nouns in this week's list.  Derivatives might be hard to make from those types of words.  Try your best, but it you can't do it I will be flexible.
4.  Fundraising cookie order sheets for Philippines Typhoon relief were distributed today.  Please support this worthy initiative lead by our senior school Student Council

Monday HW
1.  Unit 1 Patterning Quiz 2.0 on lessons three and four.  The previous quiz had a high class average.  This one will be a bit tougher.
2.  MMS pages 36-37.  Remember that a ruler is a required tool for this geometry unit for in-class work and homework.  I handed out a dark blue Unit three duo-tang today.  I will collect the light blue one after the Patterning test is done.
3.  Rough Draft for "A Person I Admire" should be done for tomorrow.  We had another class period to work on this today.  Most students are done already.
4.  Warren Park Trip form and fee.  The trip is on Wednesday, November 20 from 9-3.  Students should dress for the weather and pack a lunch.
5.  A picture for "A Person I Admire" should be in class tomorrow if you do not plan to draw one on your own.

Music on a Monday:  Busking Cellists do "Nevermind"