November 21st

Completely forgot to update the blog to night! Was busy putting the report cards in envelopes and thought I was 'done'!

No rest for the wicked is what my grandma used to tell me!!

Reminders
No new homework

Term 1 report cards will be sent home tomorrow - attached is a letter from the report card (assessment) committee to explain the process of the new template - please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Parent teachers
Due to my crazy schedule, I will be conducting parent teacher interviews next week at 15 minute intervals on
Tuesday 26th 3pm - 5:30pm
Wednesday 27th 2pm - 4: 15pm
Thursday 28th from 3pm - 6pm
FYI the 6pm appointment is already booked

If none of these times works for you I will be happy to arrange another time that suits your schedule. Just call the school office and Mrs. Morfini will fit you into what times are still available.

Our day
Started the day with a bit of study time for those who needed it while the others worked on a 'plural' nouns puzzle to follow up yesterday's lesson on making nouns plural
Challenge 4 and unit 8 spelling tests

We worked on adding punctuation to the following crazy sentence to show how punctuation can make a HUGE difference...

John had had had had while James had had had had had had had a better effect
The impossible just takes a little longer!!
 This sentence is about writing...
John had had, "had had" while James had had "had"; "had had" had had a better effect.

Yes, it is a bit over the top! Still

Band class

Math groups today - our experiment seems to be working smoothly and soon it might be time for a shake up and switch of members
We either worked on instruction, practice or extension of the concepts and skills of conversion from decimals to percentage to fraction.
No quiz tomorrow - bit of a break tomorrow.

1:15- 2pm +
Performance from TapCo was an excellent showcase of the talent of the young dances from the Vancouver Tap Dance Society. I was surprised by how young the dancers were. They ranged in age from 11 - 18 and were very accomplished dancers who have been dancing it seems for many years according to their bios. The neat thing about tap dancing is it can be done to so many music genres.
Highly entertaining. The students seemed to enjoy it and were merrily tapping their feet all afternoon (I apologized to Mrs. Morfini who works in the office below us).


The students requested their reading time and most were able to settle to an 20 minute reading time.

The afternoon seemed to simply vanish into thin air by the time we managed to get ourselves organized for a chapter of Word Nerd and clean up it was time for the dismissal bell.

Have a good what is left of the evening!
Sorry post is so late tonight!
One of those evenings- brain fart
Mrs. J.