MON 12th

• 2 field trip forms sent home (green and blue), both due next Tues.

Word lists for the week (focus: ow/ou words)

List 1 – borrow, although, bowl, growth, rowboat, mellow, sour, count, house, through

List 2 – scowl, account, dough, poultry, boulder, tomorrow, overgrown, approach, window, follow, chowder, drowsy, mouthful, drought, downstream, founder

List 3 – thoroughly, cantaloupe, shoulders, bungalow, encounter, bountiful, grouse, discount, drowsily, surrounding, pronounced, outrageous, cauliflower, announcement, cowardly, adjourn

TUES 13th

Popcorn orders due.

Start bringing in cardboard and small items from your recycling for your Science project (simple machines).

THURS 15th

Popcorn given out.

Spelling test.

FRI 16th

Pro-D (no school for students).

MONDAY 28th

We did the Student Vote!

Student vote results from across Canada will be posted tonight or tomorrow.

See Spelling Word Lists below.

TUESDAY 29th

Field Trip: Meet with the Mayor at City Hall

Boys’ basketball home game after school

WEDNESDAY 30th

Girls’ basketball home game after school

THURSDAY 1st

Social Studies Quiz on Government

Cross country run at Cultus at 3:30

FRIDAY 2nd

Field trip: Fraser Valley Gymnastix

Pick a Perk Day

Spelling test

Word Lists – Focus: Synonyms

Level 1: help/assist, begin/start, connect/join, hurry/rush, trade/swap

Level 2: buy/purchase, smart/intelligent, unusual/strange, observe/watch, gather/collect, part/component, choose/select, illustration/picture

Level 3: necessary/required, freedom/liberty, praise/compliment, empty/vacant, reliable/dependable, previous/former, victory/triumph, surpass/transcend

Focus: Antonyms

Level 1: best/worst, young/old, loose/tight, shiny/dull, real/pretend

Level 2: easy/difficult, create/destroy, question/answer, positive/negative, remember/forget, forward/backward, common/rare, absent/present

Level 3: beginning/conclusion, guilty/innocent, abundant/scarce, feeble/powerful, combine/separate, ascend/descend, conceal/reveal, courage/cowardice

Focus this week: vowel-consonant-vowel pattern

Level One: agent, artist, basic, before, closet, label, delay, desert, native, secret

Level Two: ability, benefit, broken, cabinet, column, decide, volume, enjoy, honest, legend, logic, magic, melody, memory, origin, polish

Level Three: avalanche, barbecue, dilemma, envelope, hexagon, insulate, medicine, volunteer, monopoly, nominate, original, horizon, reluctant, resident, satisfy, universe

BLUE: voice, oyster, voyage, annoy, choice, avoid, appoint, enjoy, moisture, noise, drown, amount, fountain, crowded, southwest, thousand, flour, pronounce

PURPLE: kindness, darkness, happiness, loneliness, sadness, weakness, exactly, honestly, speedily, angrily, happily, friendly, especially, teacher, actor, liar, biologist, assistant

ORANGE: mosquitoes, varieties, beliefs, grievances, schedules, echoes, thieves, journeys, halves, passersby, substances, orchestras, pharmacies, sergeants, tomatoes, boundaries, instruments, encyclopedias

Today we discussed the difference between fixed and growth mindsets and how we can change the messages we tell ourselves.
Example: Instead of saying, “This is too hard,” saying, “It’s going to take some time and effort.”

Here are the videos we watched:

Spelling word lists: 

BLUE: also, bought, cough, almost, false, officer, soft, stalk, halt, faucet, saucer, caution, lawyer, awesome, stall, crawl, awful, because

PURPLE: eagle, example, towel, special, legal, little, whole, several, terrible, label, question, frequent, telescope, instead, instrument, celebrate, declare, address

ORANGE: magnificent, obedient, persistent, equivalent, fluorescent, incident, valiant, brilliant, ignorant, significant, reluctant, attendant, dormant, vigilant, radiant, immigrant, accident, confident

TUES:

After-school toy sale

WED:

French Quiz (sports words)

THURS: 

Term 2 report cards sent home

FRI: 

Spelling test

Hot lunch: Hugo’s

(last day before Spring Break!)

Completed: 100 acts of kindness!

So proud of these kids. . .they stepped out of their comfort zone and made many people smile today!

Thanks for supporting them. ♥