Good afternoon!

I hope you all had a weekend!

Remember this week and next week are short weeks. We have NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 AND MONDAY FEBRUARY 16!

Valentine’s Day party on Thursday February 9 during last period. Students can dress in red/pink and white. Any treats must 100% NUT FREE!!

There will now be a FROZEN PARTY on Thursday February 12 from 6:00-8:30. There will be a variety of activities from cupcake decorating to arts and crafts to pin the tale on Olaf. A special appearance from ELSA and OLAF is sure to make your child’s dream come true!! While the children are having the best night of their life, parents can enjoy a dinner beginning at 6 and watch an amazing performance of McBeth put on our MYP students. All this for an amazing price of $0.00! That’s right folks, a night out for FREE! What a fantastic way to start Family Day weekend!! Please register ASAP with Dawn at the front desk. DON’T MISS OUT!!!

A few important reminders/important dates

We are running low on Lysol/Clorox wipes. If we could get some in that would be greatly appreciated. We are completely out of Kleenex and lots of our friends have colds. If we could get some in it would be fantastic!

Pre-registration forms due February 20th. This is in order to hold your spot!!

McBeth/Frozen Party Thursday February 12^th. 

Oral Presentations Thursday February 26^th. In class oral presentations Friday February 20^th!

DRA and OWA testing for term 2 has started and will continue next week.

MATH

Today the Grade 4’s looked at comparing circle graphs and bar graphs. They used these graphs to answer questions about the data shown by each graph. The Grade 3’s used pictographs and bar graphs to answer questions.

LANGUAGE

Today we began by working with lesson 13 in our spelling books. The students wrote out the words in their agenda. Please remember to sign the spelling tests from Friday and send them back! Thank you in advance! Today we began memorizing our speeches. We will be having in class presentations of poems and speeches beginning tomorrow and continuing on Wednesday!

Parents please help your children in anyway possible. I am looking for hook (something to grab the audiences attention), an introduction telling us their topic, paragraphs talking about different things about their topic (for example if they are talking about hockey some paragraphs they may want to talk about are rules, equipment, different leagues, etc). I then would like a closing statement tying everything in.

The spelling test will take place Thursday this week due to the holiday on Friday.

U.O.I.

Today we reviewed the Feudal System and played a Smarties game showing the power of a King versus a Serf. They would not like living during this period!!

My nobles for our Smarties Feudal Game

My Vassels for our Smarties Feudal Game

My Peasant for our Smarties Feudal Game (there were not happy when they found out they only got 4 Smarties while our King got 23!!) We are missing Niah, our King, and Melia another Vessels!

Have a great night!

Mrs. Hocevar :)