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Swimming Day October 25, 2016

Dear Parents,                                                              

The Grade 3 Team has decided to take the kids swimming. Our class will be going on October 25 from 10:00-11:00 at Nicholas Sheran Pool.

In order for every child to be transported to the swimming pool, we will need to have parent volunteers. Our class will be leaving the school at 9:40 in order to be at the pool and ready to swim by 10:00. 

If you are able to help with the driving please send me a quick email! A hard copy of this will be coming home tomorrow as well if you prefer to send in the form!

Thanks so much for your support! Have a great night!

Linda

Strings in Schools

MMH is lucky to be welcoming the Strings in Schools program from the University of Lethbridge Conservatory of Music into our building this year. 

Classes will run mid-November to end May, or may begin sooner should the minimum number be met sooner.

We require a minimum of 8 students to run the class, and our maximum will be 16.  Registration is first come, first served; the first 16 students to return the form and payment will be in the class.  Violin rental is available through the conservatory or local stores.  All information is included on the registration form.  If we do not reach the minimum, cheques will be returned and the class will not run. 

Classes will run 1-2 lunches per week on the stage, and are offered for students in grades 3, 4 and 5.  If the minimum number of registrants is met, classes will be one day/week from 11:50-12:20.  If we have 16 registrants, an additional day will be added at no additional charge to families.

 Next Wednesday, October 12^th, we have a grade three student bringing her violin to school to come around and deliver the forms.

If you have questions, please direct them to Nicole Baker at nicole.baker@lethsd.ab.ca

or to the conservatory directly.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

October Newsletter 2016

It’s hard to believe that it’s already October! The first month of Grade 3 has flown by! We’ve been working hard on learning routines and have jumped into all of our beginning units.  Here’s a quick peek at what’s been going on in the four cores!

LA: Daily 5, Reading Across Canada Challenge

Reading Strategies: Read like books are gold! / Choose within reach books/Make Predictions

Math: Patterning Unit

Science: Scientific Method/ Hearing and Sound Unit

Social: Mapping Unit

Themes: Terry Fox, Roald Dahl, Orange Shirt Day, Fire Prevention Week, Bats

Words of the Week: Ethical Citizen and Engaged Thinker

Spelling Program

We are starting our spelling patterns program this month and you will see some spelling homework coming home tonight!  The spelling books will come home every Monday with a new word list written by your child. The students will be working on these words in school but will also have a list of activities to choose from each night. Please take 10-15 minutes each night Monday through Thursday to help your child choose which activity they want to try out and to complete the work in the spelling book provided.

These books will come back to school on Friday for me to look at and a spelling test will also happen every Friday (unless there is no school, then we will have it on Thursday). I have completed a spelling inventory of your child’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to spelling patterns and have grouped them so each child is getting instruction on the patterns they struggled with. We do word sorts and hunts with these patterns throughout the week with the goal to help your child recognize these spelling patterns and to apply them to other words rather than just memorizing for the test and then forgetting when applying during real world writing or typing. Each Friday your child will be tested on the 5 new words, 5 old words (to keep them mastered) and 2 surprise words that fall within the same spelling pattern to see if they are able to generalize the pattern to new words.

Thanks so much for your help getting this program up and running! Your time at home is greatly appreciated and I hope to see some great gains for our spellers this year!

Important Dates to Remember

Oct. 4, 18, 25 Junior Choir

Oct. 10-14 Fire Prevention Week “Don’t Wait Check the Date!” Replace smoke alarms every 10 years

Oct. 10 Thanksgiving: no school

Oct. 11 Professional Learning: no school /Minister David Eggen visits MMH 1:00-1:30

Oct. 12 Mission Impossible starts in the gym 

Oct. 13-18^th Scholastic Book Fair 8:00 – 4:00 / except Friday 14th 8:00 – 12:00.   

Oct. 14 Deadline for hot lunch orders

Oct. 17 Picture retake day

Oct. 20 Dismissal at 11:35 today/ no school in afternoon due to Professional Learning Da

Oct. 21 Professional Learning day: no school

Oct. 25 Hot lunch gr. 1-3

Oct. 31 Halloween parade 12:45 (students will change into costumes at noon) (Thanks for volunteering to send treats for our party, if you signed up you will be receiving an email soon! We have 26 students and no nut allergies!)

Bird Projects, Face Painting, Beach Day and Picnic Time!

As part of our bird project we had Mrs. Price offer to come in and face paint all the different types of birds that we were learning about. She did an amazing job of the long billed curlew, black capped chickadee, white american pelican, great horned owl, swainson's hawk, and mallard. WOW! Thank you so much for your time and talents, these were fantastic! 

Of course we had to mix in some amazing sea creatures for our Beach Day theme! Check out the seahorses and sharks! Rumour has it there will be even more face painting at the  Year End Picnic on June 28th.

Watch backpacks this Friday for a note coming home with reminders about the Year End Picnic. Special thanks to everyone who has already volunteered to bring watermelon, drive supplies, help supervise, cook and so much more! 

June 29  Last Day of School / Class Party-thanks so much to everyone who has signed up to send treats on this day :)  Also, just a reminder that this is a  HALF DAY.

Twins Triplets and Shaved Heads!

Whoever thought you'd see those words together in a sentence? That's what happens when you combine an MMH spirit assembly and some amazing students, parents, and teachers to support cancer research! Take a look!

   

How To Make Your Grade One Teacher Cry!

Colour me surprised! and colour me blue!  Imagine how it felt to walk into a sea of blue shirts and dresses on Friday in support of Autism Awareness! You got me! Even my own husband and children were in on the surprise and did a fantastic job of keeping it a secret! How do you get 25 first graders to keep a secret that big? Amazing!  Here's a few pic's of Mrs. Payne's big surprise!