Monday November 13th 2017

Highlights

Today was a busy day. We started our day with Math. We're learning about estimation. Today's lesson focused on estimating to 1000. Students were given a bag or jar of objects and asked to make a reasonable guess about the amount in the bag or jar. We then counted the objects to see if we were close. They were introduced to a new math term: Reverent. It means, when you take a known amount (i.e. 10) and compare it to the rest of your objects you have. It provides you with a way to measure or compare. We had music today and gym. After gym, we had spelling. There's a new list in their folders. We also had daily 5. After lunch, we continued working on proper sentence structure. We had art at the end of the day. We finished our Banyan Tree art. It looks amazing! It will be on the bulletin board outside of the classroom. You will be able to see the finish product when you come for parent/teacher interviews this week.

Don't forget to book a time for Parent/Teacher conferences!

Important Information:

Panorama Hills School Society still collecting gently used children's book donations for our 2^nd annual Used Book Sale!! 

We are primarily in need of leveled readers & chapter books for grade 1-6 readers. 

Books can be dropped off in the boxes outside of the PHS library, beside the grand hall up until Monday November 13th.

The Book sale will be held on Thursday November 16^th and Friday November 17^th in the Grand Hall during Parent/ Teacher Interviews.

Proceeds from the used book sale go towards prizes given to the students for the Read-A-Thon, which runs through the month of December.

This is a great opportunity for the students to get some "new to them" reading materials to kick off their Read-A-thon success!!

If any parents would like to volunteer for book sorting on Tuesday November 14th or Wednesday November 15th or to help out during the book sale on the 

16th & 17th, please contact Council at phschoolcouncil@gmail.com

Reminders:

• Parent-Teacher Interviews - Thursday November 16th (PM) and Friday November 17th (during the day)
• No school on Friday November 17th because of interviews. 
• Picture Re-takes: November 14th - Proofs were sent home today! 
• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Spelling 
Monday - napping, stopped, stopping, quickly, quietly
Tuesday - swiftly, gladly, bravely, eagerly, calmly
Wednesday - sweetly, brightly, shortly, softly, happily 
Thursday - Quiz 

~ Math: Work on homework pages that have been sent home from Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. 

• Lesson 1: Read and represent numbers to 1000
• Lesson 2: Explore place value with 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.
• Lesson 3: Represent numbers in more than one way using base 10 blocks. 
• Lesson 4: No homework
• Lesson 5: Use place value to compare and order 3-digit numbers.
• Lesson 6: Skip count by 5s, 10s, 25s, and 100s.
• Lesson 7: Use skip counting to find the value of a collection of coins.
• Lesson 8: Representing numbers in more than one way using coins. 
• Lesson 9: Skip count by 3s and 4s. 
• Lesson 10: Estimating to 1000 (homework will go home on Tuesday) 

Ask Me About:

~ What is a reverent? (a term we use for estimating)