Art Project- Please have your child bring in 10 leaves. The more variety they have the better. Memory Verse Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24 Practice "I" statements at Home I feel ____ when _____. I would like ________. Students have been given their Mathletics passwords account. This is a great way to practice our math skills. Mathletics link on our math page. | This week has been a short week school week for the students but a long week for Mrs. Cossette. On Friday, I had meetings at the school where we learned more about how to use the JUMP math program and I am excited to start our first unit from the program. This week in our classroom we have been learning a lot about coping and dealing with hard situations. As a class, we came up with the hand-print of coping which is five strategies when dealing with someone else who is being difficult. Our hand-print includes the following strategies:
C.P.S.- This acronym will be found on a lot of your students work for spelling tests, spelling homework and writing. This stands for capitals, periods and spelling. Students will get a mark for each portion on their assignments. Look back on the week: Monday- Spelling Pre-test, homework instruction Tuesday- Learning Coping Strategies Wednesday- Mini Lesson sound chunks Thursday- Spelling and Seed test This week holds the following: Monday- pre-Spelling Test, spelling homework instructions Monday- Friday: bean planting, starting our new math unit, Reading Owls in the Family, landforms and climate of Alberta Tuesday- Chapel is split for Grade 4-6 Friday- Leaf Art Project- To supplement our science unit on plants we will be doing a leaf art project. Please have your child bring in 10 leaves. The more variety they have the better. Also, memory verse can be either said to me or it can be written out. The students choose which one they would prefer. I also had numerous emails about students confused about sound chunks. This will be something that I go over again in class this week and that portion of the spelling homework will not be taken in for marks from last week. Please visit the Language Arts page as I have added more resources to assist for this portion of homework. |
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This week was an emotional roller coaster as I adjusted to having my own classroom for the first time; what an exciting time. I realized that it is extremely important to establish my expectations and how much fun it is to learn with your students. I really enjoyed the little tidbits that my students shared will about who they are and what they enjoyed about the week.
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Shari Cossette
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