We had a fabulous first week of school.  I am very impressed with how hard everyone worked last week on listening skills, co-operation and team work. We are definitely SUPERSTARS.

Soccer starts this week for Grades 4 and 5. Cross Country starts this week for Grades 3,4 and 5.

This week we will be practicing our Fire Drill and Lock Down procedures.  There will be school drills throughout the week.

This week we will be looking for Random Acts of Kindness.  When we see them, we will post the information on our school Bucketfilling Board.  This is to help out with #BeccaToldMeTo and Random Act of Kindness day on Saturday, September 16.

Wednesday we will have Mr. Duplessie visit our class.  He will be teaching us how to become good at video taping and preparing GG Times News segments.  Our class will be looking after the GG Times group this year.

Also on Wednesday, Mr.  Fred Fox will be visiting Gretna Green. He is the brother of Terry Fox. He will help us kick off the school Terry Fox Fundraising Campaign.

Thursday is Meet the Teacher Night.  Bring your parents to school to see your new classroom and visit with me.  This starts at 6:00 in our school cafeteria.

Language Arts - This week we will continue working on Read to Self and the expectations during this reading time.  As well, I will be introducing Work on Writing and Work on Words.  These are all parts of our Daily 5 time of day.  In writing we wll be focusing on the Writing Trait of Organization.

Math- This week we will continue with our Number of the Day and we will begin our Unit on Whole Numbers. Grade three will be learning how to represent numbers to 1000 and Grade 4 will be learning how to represent numbers to 10 000. We will also learn more about the computer game Reflex that we will be starting soon.

Science - We will continue to do team building activities this week as well as, we will begin our unit on Rocks, Minerals and Soils.

Art- We will be drawing our Self Portraits.

Let's have another Superstar week!!