Angelville News September 17-21, 2012

BON DIA

WEEK 3

*CURRICULUM NIGHT Wednesday, September 19 at 7pm.  Please come and see our classroom and hear about what is going on in 3/4 West!

We had a wonderful walking trip to the Ballard Locks last Wednesday.  Our Ranger was excellent!  I think the students really enjoyed themselves and learned a few things about the locks and the fish ladder for the salmon.  We saw so many salmon coming through, more than I have seen in the past 4 years doing this field trip.  It was GREAT!!

*A new Field Trip form is going home tomorrow, KING TUT!  We will take the city bus to the Pacific Science Center on Tuesday, September 25th.  We will leave around 8:45am and return around 12:30.  Please pack your student a sack lunch for this field trip.  The cost and information about the trip is on the back of the field trip form.

In my 4th grade Religion class we applied one of our Religion SLE's "Wonderment and Awe" to our field trip.  The students showed what it "LOOKS" like and "SOUNDS" like to have Wonderment and Awe in relation to our field trip.  This week Fr. Shane is going to come in to class and lead the students in a lesson on the 7 Sacraments.  We will continue to learn about the 7 Sacraments this week and next.

In my 4th grade Math class we are reviewing many skills.  We are also doing quick minute checks on our addition and subtraction tables.  Once we have mastered those we will move on to multiplication.  This week we are covering >,<,=

In SS we will begin our Washington Studies Weekly newspapers this week.  Our curriculum this year is Washington.

In Writer's Workshop the students are writing about a place they know so well or an activity they know so well that it has become part of who they are in a way.  We read a children's literature book the first week of school called If you're not from the prairie..............., their personal writings are a spin off from this book.  I am hoping they are all completed to have on display at curriculum night.

*PLEASE CHECK YOUR STUDENTS' PLANNERS EACH NIGHT, AND SIGN.  Checks mean work is complete, circle means not complete and needs to be done and brought back the next day.

Thank you all for your support!  Keep bringing on that SUN:)