October 15

WOW!!!!!!!!!! Half way through October already! Time flies! My 14 yr old was in diapers just the other day, or at least that is how it feels.

I spent the weekend in Hinton for a peewee hockey tournament. We won gold but the smell of that town is enough to cause me to stay away for a while.

Today was a slow day. We took our time and did some social studies in the computer lab. We talked about cold Iqaluit, up in the north. We talked about the flat lands around Saskatoon and all the farms there. We talked about Meteghan and its proximity to the ocean, the fish and Les Acadiens. I let them know that we will be learning all about these communities and then making a travel brochure for one of them. I said that they would be like the travel agents that help to book their trips to far off destinations!

After our time in the computer lab we did a bit of a review of the sounds from our dictées: "on" and "oi". Next I shared the six dictée words for this week. We are learning the sound "ou".

We worked for a bit on the difference between the meanings of the words: ou, meaning or, and où, meaning where.

Please send in a pumpkin with your child sometime this week. We will be using them to count, weigh, rank in size, etc. On Halloween we are going to carve them and yes, I would love your help and your carving tools.

Gotta go!