It was a pleasure to meet so many parents during the parent-teacher interviews.

One thing that came up a lot was that students are not reading at home.  The most important homework to do is 20-30 minutes of reading, and writing in the Writer's Notebook at least twice a week.  I am finding that students are struggling with Grade 5 level reading, and their writing lacks the mechanics (capitals, punctuation, paragraphs) that they should be showing at this level.  We will be working hard at this for the rest of the term.

Winter Holidays are in a few weeks.  I hope that students will remember that we still have a lot of work to do!

We have been doing some interesting things in class.  Ask your child about the books we have been reading on the theme of change, the data management project, the Wampum strings we made, and the ideal classroom they made in French.  It's important that you share in their learning.

Tomorrow is December, and soon it will be the New Year!

We still have so much exciting learning to do this year!

Ms. Bordonaro