Leaflets

• We are off to Laity Pumpkin Patch tomorrow – boots might be a good idea. Please also send along a re-usable bag (with good handles) for your child’s dirty pumpkin.
• I look forward to connecting with you later this week at student goal setting conferences.
• Bible: Isaac & Rebekah
• Math: #1-20, Simple addition. Strategy of counting on as we add.
• Language Arts: Short vowels in CVC words. Please keep practicing words, word chains, and sentences. Please keep on reading. A new page and stories came home today.
• Science: Pumpkins
• Memory Work: We are starting to learn a song and poem for the Remembrance Day Assembly. Did you know we are doing the Remembrance Day Assembly with Grade 4? Mark your calendar and invite “your people” to Langley Church on November 10 @ 2:00.
• Show and Tell on Mondays and Tuesdays. Feel free to send pictures through email for show and tell.

• Bible: Jesus’ ministry

• Math: Addition and subtraction to 50

• Language Arts: Reading longer words: open and closed syllables

• Science: Air, Water and Soil! To wrap up our Forces and Motion unit, we have a field trip to the Canadian Museum of Flight scheduled for October 29. Please be sure to sign the Museum of Flight Permission Form. We’ll be taking the bus, so we won’t need parent drivers. However, we’d love to have some parent chaperones join us to help supervise the kids and explore the museum together! Feel free to email me if you’re available.

• Memory Work: Since last week was a short week, we are going to repeat our memory work for another week - Psalm 119:1, here is the audio version: Psalm 119:1.

• Show & Tell: Show & Tell will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Feel free to send pictures through email for your child to share if they would like!

• This Week’s Snack Buddies (A great opportunity to build friendships beyond the classroom—maybe even invite your child’s buddy over for a playdate!):

• Samantha, Bella & Jessica

• Ally & Lark

• Autumn & Brynn

• Jack & Pierre

• Noah & Joshua

• What amazing weather we had for our field trip last Friday! We had such a great day, and we are so thankful for all the parent volunteers who took the time to drive and help make the trip possible!
• Memory Work: Psalm 105:4 due Friday, 23.
• Bible: Abraham and his new son, Isaac.
• Reading: We continue with, Sarah, Plain and Tall!
• Writing: We are writing event stories. We are focusing on organizing our writing with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
• Math: Subtraction with regrouping in ones, tens, and hundreds.
• Science: Weathering agents that shape the land: water, wind and ice!
• Careers: In Careers, we’ve been learning to recognize our strengths and stretches and how we can use our unique gifts and talents in ways that honour God and serve others.
• Art: Continuing our concentric hands.
• PE: Fundamental Movement Skills: Stationary
• Show and Tell: Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Music 3 (NS): Rhythm cup game to ‘Viennese Clock’, and continuing our solfege singing skills!

• Hello hello! We are back but again for only a few short days. This week is a busy one with the Bear Creek Run on Tuesday and Student / Parent / Teacher Conferences Thursday evening and Friday morning. I am looking forward to the opportunity to sit down and chat with you and your child about their goals for this upcoming term. Also in store for this week:
• Memory Work: The Books of the Old Testament due Friday, October 30
• Bible: The stories we have for this week include Saul's Jealousy, David and Jonathan, and David Flees from Saul.
• Math: In last week's leaflets I mentioned our upcoming Place Value test. I had anticipated a Wednesday date for this, but it is looking like we will actually have this test on Thursday. The rest of this week is therefore dedicated to review. Students will be receiving a review sheet today and while we will be completing and going over this review sheet as a class, I recommend students also take some time to review at home.
• Science: This week we tackle Thermal Energy!
• Social Studies: Now that we have had the chance to “visit” each of Canada's physiographic regions, this week we will begin our final project, a Resource Report.
• ELA: This week we begin reading our first novel study: Owls in the Family! We will also be writing Pen Pal letters to the Grade 3 class.
• P.E.: Cooperative Games (the actual last week in this unit before we move on to soccer next week).
• Art: Maurice Sendak inspired Zentangles.
• Music 4 (NS): Preparing our song for the Remembrance Day assembly: Battle Belongs & Playing recorders! Learning B-A-G

Here is a look at what we have planned for the week ahead:

• Bible: Unit1The Birth and Early Ministry of Jesus - Jesus in the Temple at a young age, John the Baptist
• Memory Work: Hymn 14:1
• Reading: Novel Study on Gentle Ben by Walt Morey ~ chapters 7-8 summarizing skills
• Number Sense Math: We are working on Memorizing our MULTIPLICATION SKILLS. Student need to know all of their times tables from 1-10
• French: Rooms of the school
• Science: Natural Resources in BC – Fishing, Forestry, Water and Agriculture
• Socials: Finishing up our unit on non-renewable resources with consideration of the impact of mining on our environment. What does reclamation look like as being stewards of the earth? Unit review will begin next week with a test the following week.
• Math: Measurement of time in relation to understanding the cycles of the moon
• Writing: Writing trait: Ideas. The power of planning and organization as part of the writing process.
• Careers: Preparation for the upcoming conferences. Students will identify strengths and stretches related to the core competencies of communication and collaboration. From there, students will establish a goal to work on. We are looking forward to this time together at the conference.
• PE: Triple-ball (Modified volleyball game play)
• Music 5 (NS): No music this week

• We are looking forward to a fun week! Students have the Bear Creek run on Tuesday and Friday off! Student check-in reports will be sent home on Wednesday and will need to be signed and returned by next Tuesday. Looking forward to meeting with you!
• Memory Work: Due next Friday- Psalm 32:1
• Bible: Wrapping up unit 1 with a review.
• English: Wonder - Part 2 - Via
• Math (GT): We are working on various multiplication and division strategies
• Socials (NK): We have our final quiz for this unit Thursday on rivers, deserts, mountain ranges and using coordinates. Don’t forget to study!
• Science (SP): Our focus on volleyball skills and tripleball gameplay continues.
• PE (SP): We are starting to learn about the excretory system this week!
• French: Finishing our irregular verbs with some more practice and starting our review for our Unit 1 test next week!
• ADST: Typing Club
• Music: Learning ‘Mighty Medieval Men’ - memorized for next Monday! Tracks can be found in Grade 6 Google Classroom

• Welcome back to another fantastic week! Last week, students were sent home with progress reports to be signed by parents and returned. I look forward to meeting many parents face to face this Thursday and Friday for student-led conferences. Another exciting event this week is our trip to Bear Creek for our Christian Schools cross country!
• Memory Work: This week Friday: Psalm 32. Due next Friday: Hymn 63
• Bible: Starting Unit 2: The Account of Terah | Gen. 11-25
• English: Continuing Wonder Part 2: Via
• Math: We are working on various multiplication and division strategies
• Socials (NK): We have our final quiz for this unit Thursday on rivers, deserts, mountain ranges and using coordinates. Don’t forget to study!
• Science (KN): We will be having our 5 senses quiz on Wednesday this week and then moving on to the Excretory system.
• PE: Triple Ball!
• Careers: SMART goals
• French (AV): Finishing our irregular verbs with some more practice and starting our review for our Unit 1 test next week!
• ADST: Typing Club
• Music: ‘Mighty Medieval Men’ - needs to be memorized for next Monday! Tracks can be found in Grade 6 Google Classroom

• Welcome to another wonderful week of Grade 7! This week’s excitement includes a trip to Bear Creek for our Christian Schools cross country and student-led conferences. I look forward to meeting with many of you by the end of the week!
• Memory Work: Romans 5:1-2 due for Friday, October 30.
• Bible: We continue to work our way through 1 Samuel. This week we will hear about the rise and fall of King Saul.
• ELA: We are wrapping up some final assignments connected to our novel.
• Math: Integers remain the focus of this week.
• Socials: Students will be placed into their ancient civilization groups. These groups focus on one civilization for the duration of the school year. As a group, students will research, create, and share projects focused on various elements of the culture of that region.
• Careers: Students will be creating goals with you and I at our conferences
• ADST: Dragon’s Den preparation continues.
• Art: We are going back to work on our graffiti fences after taking a break last week.
• Science (AV): This week we will finish the first part of our climate change unit with looking at more evidence of change over time - ice cores and dendroclimatology
• French (AV): Review for our unit test next week.
• Music (NS): Due this week: Oct. 22: MakeMusic: Captain America, SOE # 26,27, 29. Due next week Wednesday, Oct 28: SOE #30-35. (The idea is that students do one a day!).
• PE (SS): Volleyball. We’ll be learning hitting technique this week!

• Welcome to another short week of school! We are looking forward to meeting with many of you for the Student-led conferences on Thursday and Friday. Please keep an eye out for a progress report coming home this week. Please have a look at it with your child and then have it signed and returned by Thursday.
• Memory Work: 1 Chronicles 29:11 – 12. DUE on Thursday
• Bible: We are continuing to study Luke - learning how to annotate and answer discussion questions.
• ELA (NK): We'll work on creative writing for Chapters 6 and 7 from Monday to Wednesday, and read Chapter 8 on Thursday.
• Math (BV): Reviewing adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. “Order of Operations with Fractions” sheet is due for homework today. Fraction Test on Thursday, October 22.
• Science (BV): Continuing with our Cell Project. Due October 26.
• Socials (KN): Quiz today on the Fall of Rome, Byzantine Empire and the Rise of Islam. We will be moving on to the Franks and Charlamagne next!
• ADST (KN): Dragons Den preparation. Do you have your idea? Business name? Have you looked at the cost of the materials? Working on your powerpoint presentation?
• Careers (KN): Goal Setting and Progress Report.
• PE (SS): Volleyball. We’ll be working on our hitting technique this week!
• French (AV): This week we will start review for our unit test next week.
• Music (NS): Due Wednesday, Oct 21: Journey of the Taikonaut m.1-16 - recorded in Make Music WITH a metronome set to 84 BPM. Due Wednesday, Oct 28: Journey of the Taikonaut m. 22-37, SOE #112 & 115

• Memory Work: 1 Chronicles 29:11 – 12, due Thursday October 22.
• Bible: Studying the Gospel of Luke in groups.
• ELA (NK): We'll work on creative writing for Chapters 6 and 7 from Monday to Wednesday, and read Chapter 8 on Thursday.
• Math: Reviewing adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. “Order of Operations with Fractions” sheet is due for homework today. Fraction Test on Thursday, October 22.
• Science: Continuing with our Cell Project. Due October 26.
• Socials (KN): Quiz today on the Fall of Rome, Byzantine Empire and the Rise of Islam. We will be moving on to the Franks and Charlamagne next!
• Art: First Sketch due Thursday October 22
• ADST: Continuing with our Market Day Project
• Careers: Creating SMART goals in preparation for Student/Parent/Teacher conferences.
• PE (SS): Volleyball. We’ll be working on our hitting technique this week!
• French (AV): This week we will start review for our unit test next week. Bible verse presentations will be on Wednesday.
• Music (NS): Due Wednesday, Oct 21: Journey of the Taikonaut m.1-16 - recorded in Make Music WITH a metronome set to 84 BPM. Due Wednesday, Oct 28: Journey of the Taikonaut m. 22-37, SOE #112 & 115