Week of December 18, 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Students in Grades 4, 5, 6 will be able to participate in an outdoor activity at Mount Pakenham, Ontario on Thursday, January 25th. Similar to last year, we will be offering the options of Skiing or W.O.W (Winter Outdoor Wonder- including tubing, snowshoeing and orienteering.

I will be sending home ski forms on Monday.  Last registration day will be Tuesday, January 16.

Here is the link to the Ski/Wow form: https://tinyurl.com/strittpskiday

Mount Pakenham's website: http://www.mountpakenham.com/index.php

This week...

Language- we are finishing our Christmas recount

         Math- we are finishing our Multiplication/Division unit

Religion/Family Life- we are completing our Jesse tree
                                  - we are learning about the importance of relationships in our family

Important Dates:

1. Mass on Tuesday, December 19th at 10:15am
2. Christmas Concert on Thursday, December 21st at 9am

Week of December 11th, 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This week is Christmas Spirit Week! Money collected will provide a warm meal to those in need.

Monday- Red, White, & Green Day

Tuesday- Festive Hat Day

Wednesday- Elf Day (Dress like an Elf)

Thursday- Christmas Sweater Day

Friday- Cookie Decorating (Buy raffle tickets, .25 cents or 5 for $1)

Language- we are finishing our book trailer for The Wild Robot

                 - we are learning to write a personal recount

       Math - we are continuing to review multiplication and long division

                 - we will start our unit on elapsed time

Religion/Family Life - we will begin Theme 2: Living in Relationship in Fully Alive

                                       - we are preparing for Christmas by reading passages from the

                                       bible and placing ornaments on our Jesse Tree

Week of December 4th, 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We have the Elephant Sale on Friday December 8th! Money raised will be going towards our Christmas Charities.

We have our virtue assembly on Tuesday December 5th at 8:45. All parents are welcome!

This week...

Language - we are working on our book trailer for The Wild Robot
                 - we are continuing to learn about conjunctions

       Math - we are reviewing multiplication and long division
                - we have our multiplication and division test on Friday December 8th
                - we are learning coding as part of the Hour of Coding week

   Long Division

           

Multiplicaition

Religion/Family Life - we will begin Theme 2: Living in Relationship in Fully Alive
                                    - we are preparing for Christmas by reading passages from the
                                       bible and placing ornaments on our Jesse Tree

Other Important Date:

We have library on Thursday.