Dear Parent and
Guardians,
I hope everyone
had an enjoyable long weekend. Our students did wonderful in our Remembrance
Day ceremony last week! Please make sure to take a look in your child’s
communication bags, there are a few notices coming home today.
Reminders:
Parent- Teacher
Interview Times- Parent
Teacher appointment letter will be coming home on Tuesday. Please be sure to
select times and return your form.
Hot Lunch Order
Forms- Order forms
will be coming home on Tuesday, November 13. Please note we have added pizza
for Mondays.
School Clothing
Order- Clothing orders
are due back on Thursday, November 15. This is completely optional.
You can use schoolcashonline to pay, but we ask that all order forms
please be returned to the school.
Report
Cards- Report
cards for term one will be sent home on Tuesday, November 20. There are
links posted on our website that offer information about the report
cards, and assessment and evaluation. Parent teacher interviews
will follow on Thursday, November 22nd in the evening and on Friday,
November 23rd in the morning.
Clothing
Exchange- Reminder
that we will be looking for winter clothing donations. We will begin
collecting items here at the school starting on November 13th to
November 21st (letter coming home on Tuesday, Nov.13) During that time you can
drop off your clean and in good condition items to be donated. During
Parent Teacher interview days the clothing will be out in the gymnasium for
families to browse through and take as needed.
What
we are learning this week:
Literacy: We our finishing our class novel “The
Witches” this week. We will be working on some various activities to go along
with the book. We will also be discussing reading strategies that will help us
improve our comprehension and fluency.
Math: This week in math, we will be
working on multiplication and division strategies. These strategies will help
students quickly and effectively solve multiplication problems without having
to memorize everything.
Science: We are doing a few finish up
activities about food chains. Then we will begin our next unit, properties and
changes in materials.
Health: In health class, we are reviewing
our topics of self-esteem and stress management from last week. Later, we will discuss
at personal safety.
French: We have begun our unit on family and
close friends in French class. We will be doing various activities that include
vocabulary relating to family.
This week:
Monday, Nov.
12- No School.
Tuesday, Nov.
13- Choir
practice at 9:45am.. Tot's N Taters Hot lunch.
Estey Afterschool Art Program
Wednesday, Nov.
14-
Thursday, Nov.
15- Hot lunch
Great Canadian Bagel. Clothing orders due. PSSC and Home and School
Meeting 6pm & 7pm
Extra
practice
Here
are some ideas for games you can play at home with your child to practice the
skills we are currently learning.
Math- If you have a deck of
cards you can play multiplication war. This is great practice for
multiplication facts. Split the deck in half, each person flips one card.
Whoever can multiply the two cards that are flipped gets the card. Whoever has
the most cards at the end wins. Ex: If you flip over a 5, your child flips over
a 4, whoever says 20 first wins.
As we begin working
on arrays this is a good review/warm up for students. https://www.education.com/game/candy-shop/
French- We are working on
family/friends vocabulary right now. This website is a great resource.
http://www.french-games.net/frenchlessons?topic=Family%20-%20members&level=primary
Have
a great week!
-Maggie
Estabrooks