Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a very fun and enjoyable Christmas break! Happy New Year to everyone!
We are already back to our normal routines in the classroom. We will be finishing up our subtraction unit and probably have a test on it in the next week or two in math; we have also begun our "Habitats and Communities" unit in Science. I just set up our fish tank today in preparation for our salmon eggs which should possibly arrive next week! The students are getting very excited and were eager to ask questions today while I was setting up the redd and treated water for our salmons' habitat! We will also begin preparation for our FSA testing which happens in grade 4. It's an assessment for the province that focuses on students abilities in reading, writing and math up to this point. So it will be a busy next couple months!
As you may have heard and seen in the newsletter I sent home during the last week of school, Mrs. Ellison has begun visiting the classroom and is working on slowly returning to do some teaching! Miss D is still teaching full time and still around the school but at times Mrs. Ellison may teach some of the lessons or work with students one-on-one.
As you may have noticed, your child brought home a different version of spelling today. I wanted to go over the new expectations for spelling tests. They will be done this way until June.
1. On Mondays students will have the spelling pretest where they will try all the words. They do not need to study for this test. It is used to see how far they have come in their studying when they complete the actual test on Fridays. Once we complete the pretest, students will mark them and hand them back. Any word spelled incorrectly will be fixed in class and should be carefully written down CORRECTLY.
2. Corrections for the spelling pretest will be due Tuesdays. Students need to write each word 3 times on a new piece of lined paper from their duotang (in pencil!). They should list the corresponding number of the spelling word, then write it out 3 times correctly. Students who get a lot wrong on the pretest may be given permission to write each correction 2 times.
On the bottom or back of the corrections page, students will be asked to also include 3-5 sentences with each sentence using a spelling word CORRECTLY. These are due Wednesdays and will be sent back if any additional corrections need to be made.
3. On Wednesdays, students will be given some time in the mornings to work on their spelling books and the rest will be due for homework on THURSDAY still (I originally said Friday, but it's hard to keep up when kids forget homework that's due on a Friday!). A mark will be assigned for these pages so please make sure students bring them to school on Thursday and don't forget them at home! :)
If you have any questions please feel free to email myself or Mrs. Ellison :)
