Hello!

Just a few notes before we take off for the Terry Fox Run:

Yesterday, two students came in to speak with us about CISV and their experiences this past summer. I sent home a flyer about an information meeting taking place this evening. If you cannot make it to the meeting tonight, there will be another one scheduled later on in November. Please check the website for more information: http://www.cisv.ca/

In class, we have been looking at procedural writing as a text form. We have identified several common characteristics such as the use of sequencing words and imperative sentences.

I will be sending home a permisson form and letter about our upcoming overnight which will take place on the evening of October 9th. Please return the form as soon as possible.

I hope the first week of the homework routine went well. Please pass on any comments or feedback to me via email.

A reminder that next Friday is a PD Day.

Our group snack schedule begins next week. The schedule for next week is as follows:
Jordan-Monday, Nathan-Tuesday, James-Wednesday, and Rowan-Thursday.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

Riddle

Here is the riddle that I put on the board this morning:

It is a regular Wednesday and Tiiu is taking attendance in 310. She notes that everyone is present. Ms. D stands at the doorway and asks Tiiu how many "humans" are in the room. Tiiu thinks for a moment and answers 24. If there are 22 students in 310, how is that possible?

Some guessed that Ms. D counted as one. One student guessed that I was so special that I counted as 2. No one guessed correctly and it took them a moment before they understood the solution.

Thank you for a great class meeting last night!

September 15, 2008

Hello

I hope you all had a restful weekend and got to enjoy the weather on Saturday. I have a couple of reminders for you.
Please remember that the class meeting is at 6:00 tomorrow. I told the students that they are welcome to join us as it is about our year. I also mentioned that we would have a lot to discuss and would be sitting and talking for about an hour and that we don't have a lot of room in our class so...they may not want to join us. I will not have any child care arranged for that evening. I am hoping to be finished at around 7:00.
We are going on a field trip on Wednesday. Unfortunately, our photocopier is on the fritz. I will be able to send home a form tonight. Please return in it promptly along with the $3.00. I am looking for a couple of volunteers as well.
The Family Breakfast is this Friday. Forms for this event were sent out last week and are due back tomorrow. I hope to see you there!
See you all tomorrow!

Welcome!

Welcome to the first post for this school year! I hope many of you will check our blog on a weekly basis.
It has been a great start to the year so far. It has been amazing to have such a small class (22!). Hopefully, things will stay the same and we won't be reorganized.
The students and I created a wonderful mission statement. I will try and post it here soon. We started our novel read-a-loud. It is called the Wright 3 and has a lot to do with the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and mysterious codes. We are working on finding the averages of some interesting facts about our class, and we're taking some time to get to know one another.
I am happy to see that almost all of the students have gotten into the routine of reading every night and writing it into their agendas. This is an important routine that will continue throughout the year.
I collected many forms today. Please keep the rest coming.
I am hoping that students can each have a pair of indoor shoes that stay here at school. They should be appropriate for gym (good treads, closed toe, non marking soles). The students will be asked to keep outdoor shoes out in the hallway.
If anyone has any extra boxes of tissue around, we would love a box or two for the classroom.
Thank you for many of the warm welcomes. I hope to meet all of you soon. Please stay tuned for information regarding our class meeting.