Newsletter

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Welcome

Dear Parents/Guardians,

 I am looking forward to working with you and your child throughout this school year. I consider it of primary importance that parents are an active part of each child’s education and believe if we work together, we can make this a very successful year.

This year, I aim to provide an exciting and balanced grade three/four program, which will include many opportunities for students to grow and develop their abilities.  By educators and parents working together, each child has the ability to reach their potential. To ease in the communication between home and school, I have a class website where you will be able to find important school events, class specific information regarding homework, projects, tests, due dates and the curriculum being covered in class. Hopefully the website will provide you with answers to any questions you may have about our class academics and social events.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns.

Yours Truly

Ms. Taylor

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Timetable

Ever wonder what subject your child is learning throughout the day? Check out our class timetable!

Character Counts

During the month of November our character trait focus was Courage. Congratulations to Novembers character trait recipients Michael, Theesitha and Katie.

Decembers attribute is Responsibility.

Our Responsibility assembly is Tues. Dec. 20th, 2011.

v I am reliable and dependable to do my work.

v I take responsibility for what I do say and do.

v I think before I act, understanding there are

consequences for my actions.

Important Events

Thursday
- Meet and Greet (3:15 - 8pm) 

Friday

 - Meet and Greet (8:30 - 11am)

Our class is accepting donations for our classroom basket raffle on Dec. 20th. Our theme is activities. We have baking, toys, arts and crafts, so far! Accepting donations from Dec 5th-Dec 14th.

Christmas Concert Dec 14th

 The students of Eagle Ridge will be challenged to hang as many hats and mittens as they can on the tree in the front foyer during this week.  All hats and mittens will then be donated to students in the Durham Region to help them keep warm during the winter season. Dec 5th-Dec 9th 2011.

Our Responsibility assembly is Tues. Dec. 20th, 2011

Spelling

Spelling Bee!!!!

The students were sent home with a booklet outlining their words for the Spelling Bee. Students will be completing the in class written test on December 1st. Those who win will move on to the school Spelling Bee in the gym.

Grade 3 Spelling Bee Words:

Grade 4 Spelling Bee Words:

Every Friday our grade four students test their spelling ability. This week, Monday November 21st - Friday November 25th we are continuing with Lesson Twelve. This lesson is a review of list words we have studied in the past. The s blends, r blends, l blends and long o words are reviewed in this lesson. Since this is a review I will be choosing 15 of these words. Let's encourage our students to take this challenge on!

 If your child has mastered this list of words, challenge them by putting the words in alphabetical order. All it takes is some index cards and area to lay the cards out. The cards can also be used to study from.

Literacy

Literacy is a  fundamental building block for student success not only in school but in life as well. It will involve every teacher, every parent and every student on the road to life long learning. Our classroom is supported by a  balanced literacy program. To further support our program please read with your child for 20 minutes every night. Students will learn responsibility by continuing to complete their reading logs. Completed reading logs will be apart of our classroom rewards system. Please see the following areas of our balanced literacy program that we are further examining:

Ms. Taylor's Library: Students are selected in pairs to go to the library each morning. They will be keeping a log of reading collections. Each student will choose and read a variety of books. Each book must be selected according to the type. These types are: adventure, science. history,poetry, hobbies, realistic fiction, how to books, humourous, mystery, traditional fiction, life stories, art, music, sports, natural world, occupations, math, newspapers, magazines, Canada, First Nations, and Fantasy. This ongoing assignment will be due at the end of the term.

I am very happy to share with you we will be using a fabulous audio video package from Nelson Literacy. These offer a variety of fascinating nonfiction and fiction texts. An audio cd will be accompanying our readings.

Reading: Our main focus is learning to recognize a variety of text forms. We have been learning about non fiction texts and are currently looking at biographies, interviews and information articles.  We are also studying the features of texts. Students have also been self selecting a variety of books to read during independednt reading.

Writing: We are starting our good copies of our paragraph writing "What Makes Me Special."

websites

Check out Justin Hines @ http://www.justinhines.com He has hit the top 25 Billboard Charts!

http://www.kidsclick.org/ 

http://www.kidauthors.com

http://www.tumblebooks.com