Happy 3rd Sunday of Advent. We are very quickly getting closer to Christmas! This wonderful time of year comes with some very busy as well as joyous times. Our Advent Mass will take place at the school at 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday. All are welcome. We continue to collect items for our Christmas hamper. Thank you to those families who have very generously donated food items. If you have any new or gently used science related toys or books, or DVDs that would be appropriate for an 8 year old boy, please send them to school this week so we can also pass them along to our Christmas hamper family along with the food. Our Christmas shopping day is this Friday. This is a very fun day for students to shop for family members so please send along any items that you would like to donate. Please see the homework and updates below:
Homework this week: some students have brought home their language book to finish work. Also, some students have a Christmas story in their French folder on their drive. All students will have this story in their language folder this week. Students are to use the highlighting tool to highlight the main ideas from the article. They should also spend time on Raz Kids and Dreambox this week.
Math: Grade 3s continue to use a number line as a strategy to solve multi-step word problems involving money. They can start the number line at any number appropriate for the question. It does not need to start at zero. Grade 4s continue to work with fractions and decimal tenths. We are also using a number line to locate fractions and decimals. This will  help us compare fractions and decimals to each other.
Language: We will be writing Christmas letters to a school in India this week. This should be exciting for the students to see how Christmas is celebrated in other parts of the world as well as to share their own traditions. We will continue our novel study as well as look at main ideas in writing pieces.