Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2017

Highlights

This morning's science presentation was AMAZING! The kids had so much fun moving around to 5 different stations that had activities for minerals, soil, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks. This afternoon we practiced a lock-down in school. The students did a great job! There was a letter sent home about it today. We continue to work on writing complete sentences and have started working on capitalization and punctuation rules. Math homework for Lesson 9 will be sent home tomorrow. Please work on skip counting. This lesson was challenging for most of the students. On Monday we will move on to estimation. 

We also want to say a BIG thank you to our volunteers today!!! Scroll down to see pictures from today's fun! 

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! 
• BOOK ORDERS - Due on Wednesday November 15th. You can pay by cheque, cash or online (follow the directions on the book order form). 

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ 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. 

Ask Me About:

~ the science presentation!  What did you do at each station? There were 5 stations total: 
1. Minerals with Scientist Amanda
2. Soil with Ronan's Mom
3. Metamorphic Rocks with William's Mom
4. Sedimentary Rocks with Grace's Mom
5. Igneous Rocks with Ramleen's Mom.