Monday, November 21

 Hi parents,

It is good to be back! Thank you for your extended patience as I've been exceptionally disorganized the last few days. Due to postponing last week's quiz, it being a four day week, and a large number of students still being away, I've decided we're going to take this week off from new spelling words. The quiz on last week's words will be tomorrow. It didn't seem fair to ask the students to start studying new words while quizzing them on old words.

Today was a catch-up day, for me and also for the students. With so many students having missed various things over the past couple weeks, it seems everyone has something they needed to catch up on, and the few students who were caught up have started working on new personal projects. So all around it was pretty productive.

Today was also Mr. Ripka's first day as a student teacher in our class. The students wrote introductions about themselves for him to read. They also had the choice to write about their weekend if they preferred.

We visited the Book Fair, and the class filled out their Wish Lists. If you would like to buy anything from your child's Wishlist, please ensure you initial their form and send them with exact change!

 We watched a quick video about wildlife in India. 

Our Subtraction Quiz (also featuring a couple addition problems) will be on Wednesday, November 23. While we may have spent a bit more time on subtraction than I'd initially hoped, it's so cool to see how fluent the students have become with subtraction, even with numbers in the ten thousands and beyond. Probably the best I've ever seen. :)

Have a nice night,

Zac