October 21st, 2016

Hello families and friends,

Today we started off with our "joke of the day".  Tell me a Halloween themed joke!  Post it in the comments below.  Then we started working on our Read to Someone and Read to Self skills.  The students have been making very good progress with these skills, and next week we are going to try something new with them.  After that we had a spelling quiz!  Some of the students noticed that they were all words from our word wall.  This is a great resource for them to use for checking spelling when working on their writing.  Here are all the words we have added so far:

After that we had our first day of Choice Math work.  The students were given a variety of problems to work on to practice their math skills that we have learned including: representing numbers; addition and subtraction; and word problems using numbers up to 10.  The problems are colour coded for the students to choose a good fit for where their skills are at; green is more basic; orange is a little more challenging; and red is intended as a challenge for any of the students.  Ask your child what they worked on.  Then we finished off our day with our first Peace Assembly of the year, led by room 51.

If the weather cooperates, I am hoping to go on a community walk next Friday, October 28th.  If you would be available to volunteer to help us with this please email me at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>.

On Monday, October 31st, we are going to be doing a pumpkin investigation with our buddies in room 72.  We will be looking for around 10 to 12 pumpkins of different shapes and sizes all together.  If you would be willing to donate one for our classes to work on, or if you would like to help out with the activities, please email me at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>.  We would like to have all of the pumpkins collected by the end of next Friday, October 28th.

UPDATE: Next Wednesday, October 26th, is Math Night.  There are two times available for parents to come in with their children; from 5:00-6:00 p.m., and from 6:30-7:30 p.m.  You can sign up for a time at the My CBE Account website.

Next Tuesday our Book Fair is opening.  We will be going to check it out on Tuesday morning; students are able to purchase books at this time if they would like.  The book fair will also be open during the Math Night on Wednesday.

Next Thursday, October 27th, is the Halloween Howler.  Ticket order forms are due back by Tuesday, October 25th.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Mr. Soulliere