And just like that, November is gone! It felt very surreal changing over the classroom calendar and putting
up Hunnuka, Christmas, and Quanza on Friday afternoon. In a blink of an eye, we will be in 2020! E 109
has been an even busier room this week as it has become the home base for all intermediate school
spirit wear sales. The hope is to have all the clothing to the kids before the holidays and due to the OSSTF
strike on Wednesday, we will be placing our order on Tuesday. If you have a clothing order that you
would like before the holidays then please get your paper orders in by Tuesday, December 3rd and online
orders in by Monday, December 2nd. Any orders that come in after will be filled but will be delivered in the
new year.
Link to order clothing online: https://avonmaitland.schoolcashonline.com/ up Hunnuka, Christmas, and Quanza on Friday afternoon. In a blink of an eye, we will be in 2020! E 109
has been an even busier room this week as it has become the home base for all intermediate school
spirit wear sales. The hope is to have all the clothing to the kids before the holidays and due to the OSSTF
strike on Wednesday, we will be placing our order on Tuesday. If you have a clothing order that you
would like before the holidays then please get your paper orders in by Tuesday, December 3rd and online
orders in by Monday, December 2nd. Any orders that come in after will be filled but will be delivered in the
new year.
The kids continue to build their reading stamina during our daily independent reading. I love how students
have gotten into the swing of really owning their learning through the choice of novels they read and reading
response menu options. This week we are adding a new assignment to the creative writing section of
independent reading response choice menu thanks to Ben! He created a “Choose Your Own Adventure”
slide deck based on the themes from his novel Fly Boy by Eric Walters. 78 had fun working their way through
his story, trying to make the right choices so that they could survive as a WWII pilot. The kids have also started to work
on vocabulary building by keeping track of new words that they come across in their independent reading. After
each reading session, we share new words or phrases that we noticed as readers.
have gotten into the swing of really owning their learning through the choice of novels they read and reading
response menu options. This week we are adding a new assignment to the creative writing section of
independent reading response choice menu thanks to Ben! He created a “Choose Your Own Adventure”
slide deck based on the themes from his novel Fly Boy by Eric Walters. 78 had fun working their way through
his story, trying to make the right choices so that they could survive as a WWII pilot. The kids have also started to work
on vocabulary building by keeping track of new words that they come across in their independent reading. After
each reading session, we share new words or phrases that we noticed as readers.
We read an article from Global News that inspired us to send cards to Canadian military service members
who will be overseas for the holidays. We worked our way through the writing process and by the end of the
week I was able to post the thoughtful and touching cards that I know will bring smiles to the faces of the women
and men who are serving our country overseas.
Link to Global News Article
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| 78 and 8D kiddos handwriting cards to Canadian Service personnel |
onomatopoeia, oxymorons, personification, and imagery) and word choice. We will be working to notice
these stylistic devices in the books we read and include them in the pieces that we write. We also spent
time this week working on the narrative scene assignment that is due next Wednesday. Once we have
mastered the scene we will move to the creation of digital stories.
these stylistic devices in the books we read and include them in the pieces that we write. We also spent
time this week working on the narrative scene assignment that is due next Wednesday. Once we have
mastered the scene we will move to the creation of digital stories.
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