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March 2012

Joyful spring to you! Right on cue, the sun has come out and stayed out, literally since the first day of spring! How great for us!

4C students have been busy working on their Middle East country studies, preparing photo stories to be shared, creating maps of their countries, etc. Fractions, decimals and percentage work have kept them busy in math of late. The students have been reading in book clubs this month, discussing the stories and completing projects based on the books. They published their own poems for their moms recently for Mothers' Day. They even created their own feather quill pens and wrote the poems with them from old-fashioned ink bottles. The poems were then mounted on handmade paper which they made during our winter overnight at Ramlieh. Special!

We're all looking forward to spring break from April 6-16. I'll send home calendars featuring special events for the months of April, May and June, knowing that the last few months of a school year tend to be filled with activities, and it can be hard to keep track of everything! Progress reports will be out just before spring break.

Enjoy the holiday! Miss Wende

23 February, 2012 February greetings!,

We recently celebrated the 100th day of school!! MAP tests for the winter session are completed. Students in 4C continue to research Middle Eastern countries using texts as well as websites. Book Clubs have students reading a variety of chapter books and discussing them with their club members. We are learning about animals' life cycles in science at present.

We read to 2C students for the first portion of the year. Now the tables have turned, and they've begun to read to us, with one on one reading partners, every second Day 1. Our first such session was yesterday, and it went very well. It is a treat to have them reading to us!

Just a reminder that March 9th is Teachers' Day, with no school, and on Monday, the 12th, students don't have school because of a Staff Development Day.

Isn't it GOOD to be seeing more of the SUN again?!?!, :) Miss Wende

** January 16, 2012 ** Today the students finalized their Iditarod PhotoStories. They are uploaded onto Ms. Wende's Grade 4C blog. You can view them HERE

**December 19, 2011** They read a book they liked, drew the main character and wrote about it. Then for October 31, the students dressed up as that character. Using Comic Life in Computer class, the students put it all together! Enjoy viewing their work!

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December 20, 2011

WOW!! Winter vacation is here already!! Tomorrow, we will enjoy a musical assembly, a cookie exchange and celebrating Noor and Leiya's birthdays! Then, we'll be on holiday until the 4th of Janurary! Have a wonderful holiday, and a great start to 2012!

Warmly, Miss Carr .