No School Thursday and Friday

Just a reminder that there is no school on Thursday or Friday of this week. If parents require assistance accessing PowerSchool they can come by the school between 12:00-7:00pm to get help.

Parent Letter Sent Home

Yesterday all students were sent home with a letter for parents. The letter is asking for updated email addresses for PowerSchool. Your email address is required to be put into the PowerSchool system in order to book Student Parent Teacher Conferences which will be held on December 6. Parents are required to book these conferences online and your email address must match the email address that the school has in our system.

If you require assistance with this the school is offering support on Thursday, November 22 from 12:00pm to 7:00pm. Come in to the school and go to the office and someone will be there to help you get your account up and running!

November 5-9

This week we concluded our learning about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Students had many questions and we had many great class discussions surrounding the sections of the Charter.

Next week we will begin on our Charter of Rights and Freedoms projects. Students will be asked to create a project on one section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We have also started a new class book this week. Students voted for A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning. As we read the book students will be given small tasks to check for understanding and listening skills.

Literacy Centre's and the Charter

Yesterday we had our first go around with literacy centre's. All students did great and were participating and engaged in their assigned centre's. We only had time to do one centre yesterday, we are hoping in the future that students will be able to complete 2-3 centre's each time. Moving forward we will complete literacy centre's every Wednesday.

We also started completing posters yesterday for the four freedoms we have covered so far. Students chose a partner to work with and have been given a poster to create. The four freedoms are: freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association. Students must define their freedom and draw five related pictures about their freedom. The posters are looking great so far!

October 29 - November 2

Thank you to all of the parents and students who attended curriculum sharing night last Thursday. It was great to see everyone and to share with the parents all of the hard work we have done so far this year!

This week will be focusing on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Students will begin to look at the Charter and how it impacts their lives and the lives all people living in Canada.

On Wednesday we will be working with Ms. Baillargeon to start Literacy Centre's. Students will be divided into groups of 5-6 and will work through a series of centre's that will work to improve their literacy skills. We hope to run these centre's each Wednesday from now on.

This week

Students wrote their visual vocabulary quiz on Monday, everyone did really well! Each week we learn 3 new Social Studies themed vocabulary words. The quiz was about the first 9 words.

Ms. Der Stepanian will be away on Wednesday October 24. I am looking forward to seeing many everyone Thursday evening at curriculum sharing night. 

Curriculum Sharing Night

This Thursday, October 25 is curriculum sharing night at Ernest Morrow. Come to the school anytime between 5-8pm with your child to see the work they have completed so far this year!

Thursday October 25: Dismissal at 11:16am
Friday October 26: No School for students (PD Day).