Costume Friday!

Happy Friday, everyone!

We had another great morning together. Let's take a look...

Today, for PA, we actually went to PA! Yay! Thanks Mme Schmidt for a great lesson! :)

In Math, we collaborated with our table groups to solve a puzzle; it was tricky to figure out the shape since Mme did not give us any hints.

Ta Da! Math Bat puzzles!

In Français, we worked in our table groups to complete a Halloween vocabulary crossword puzzle.
No help from Mme. Just a dictionary!

We also listened to this very catchy tune, La chansons des squelettes, and discovered that it's equally fun when the playback speed is slowed or sped up!

Check out our great costumes!

Cereal, hockey, animals and more!

🎃 Have a safe and fun Halloween Weekend! 🎃

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AGENDA

1. Special weekend homework task posted in Showbie, "Français - Orale," "Virle langues." (Can be done instead of or in addition to French reading on Je lis.)

2. Presentation of our goals to the class -  Monday (last day)

3. Photo retakes: Monday

4. Please ask me to show you my 'tableau d'inspiration' in Showbie!

5. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

Twin - Triplet - Group Thursday!

Happy Thursday!

Mme was seeing double - and triple! - in class this morning!

We had a busy morning of learning in 208. Math challenges, factors, covering a candle with different sizes of beakers, reading, listening to "mes buts" presentations, reading about Suresh and more!

Looking forward to seeing everyone in their Halloween best tomorrow!

Have a great afternoon! :)

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AGENDA

Don't forget: Friday is Costume Day! Wear your Halloween costumes to school! Please leave costume weapons and full face-covering masks at home. ('Normal' masks still required).

*Due to the current leaving-the-classroom/washroom capacity restrictions, please come dressed in your costume to the fullest extent possible. Costumes that easily slip on over clothes can easily be put on in the classroom; costumes that require a full wardrobe clothing change once at school will be a bit trickier to schedule in.

1. Presentation of our goals to the class - Monday (last day)

2. Please ask me to show you my 'tableau d'inspiration' in Showbie!

3. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

4. Photo retakes: November 2

Maillot Mercredi!

Hello, families! Happy Snowy Wednesday!

We are all VERY happy to be the proud owners of a locker!

Starting today and moving forward, lockers will be used to store boots, jackets and other outerwear items. Lockers will remain unlocked at this time. Backpacks, binders and other personal items will remain in the classroom, as per our current routine.

In other morning learning news: we tackled a tricky Halloween puzzle in Math, started our "Mes buts" presentations in Français and started our Science demo in Science. 

Great work today, everyone! :)

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AGENDA

Don't forget: Thursday is Twin (Triplet, Group) Day! Dress up matchy-matchy with your bestie, your table group, your friends or your classmates! The more matching the merrier! :)

1. Presentation of our goals to the class - continuing tomorrow (Thursday)

2. Please ask me to show you my 'tableau d'inspiration' in Showbie!

3. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

4. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

5. Photo retakes: November 2

Dress Up Your Face Tuesday!

Hello, learning friends!

Today we showed up in hats, toques and wigs, with crazy cool hair and channeling our inner unicorn!

We had a great morning solving Math puzzles, drawing factor rectangles, and writing and sharing our hypotheses for the Science demonstration we will be doing tomorrow!

Thanks for a great morning! :)

Our heads are dressed up! :)

We are working in our table groups to solve the Halloween Math puzzle

We are writing our hypotheses in Science.

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AGENDA

Don't forget: Wednesday is Jersey Day!

1. Presentation of our goals to the class - all this week, starting tomorrow (Wednesday)

2. Please ask me to show you my 'tableau d'inspiration' in Showbie!

3. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

4. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

5. Photo retakes: November 2

Pyjama Monday!

Hello learning families! Happy Monday!

We had a busy morning in Room 208.

In Math, we started with Halloween math puzzles before beginning our first lesson with factors.

In Science, we took time to write and draw our Tomatosphere observations and got a first glimpse at the science demonstration we'll be starting in class tomorrow.

In Français, after our daily reading time, we started studying a new short story, "Suresh le garçon qui venait de loin" and were able to discuss our prediction ideas with our table partners before writing our prediction as a whole class. We will work on this article this week using "les 4 fantastiques" which is the same reading strategy we used when studying the Terry Fox article at the beginning of the year.

We also had time in Français to correct and put the finishing touches on our "tableau d'inspiration" which we created using PowerPoint on the laptops. Most students have now uploaded their work into Showbie so they can share their work with you at home! 

Students will have a chance to share their work with the class when we start the presentations of our goals Wednesday of this week.

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AGENDA

Don't forget: Tuesday is Dress Up Your Face Day! (Crazy hair, silly hat, painted face and more!)

1. Please take a moment to complete the COVID survey sent out from the school office Friday afternoon. (This is time sensitive. Please complete by TODAY (Monday) by 4:00pm.)

2. Final written copy of goals (Français) - OVERDUE 

3. Presentation of our goals to the class - all this week, starting Wednesday

4. Please ask me to show you my 'tableau d'inspiration' in Showbie!

5. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

6. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

7. Photo retakes: November 2

Friday!

Hello families! We've made through another week!

We had a great morning together, working on: Esti-mysteries, multiples, graphing, our goals presentation preparation and our inspiration boards.

Pictures and a short video from our morning are posted below.

And, a quick thank you to everyone for your continued support, flexibility and patience as we continually adapt to the ever-changing challenges COVID chooses to present us . Whether I see you all again on Monday, or whether I won't see some of you for a while, please know that you all bring me so much joy and make my coming to school every morning something to truly look forward to! 

Please be well and stay safe. 💚

Have a great weekend! :)

Solving an esti-mystère with our table groups!

Practicing our "Mes buts" texts by reading aloud to ourselves!

Listen closely: 21 versions of goals and action plans just waiting to be shared! :)

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AGENDA

Don't forget: Monday is Pyjama Day!

1. Please take a moment to complete the COVID survey sent out from the school office this afternoon. (This is time sensitive. Please complete by TODAY (Friday) by 4:30pm.)

2. Final copy of goals (Français) - OVERDUE 

3. Presentation of our goals to the class - all next week, starting Monday

4. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

5. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

6. Photo retakes: November 2

Happy Thursday!

Hello families!

We were busy this morning in Room 208!

We started our day with PA and did hand sewing with Mme Schmidt! So fun!

In Math, we worked with our table groups to do an esti-mystère (that Mme accidentally ruined by showing us the answer... oops...) and did 2 short review questions of les multiples in preparation for a short 'learning check-in' tomorrow.

We took time in Français to do our daily tomato observations...

... and then finished the morning working on our 'tableau d'inspiration' with the laptops. 

(Note: I want to commend students for being so patient and flexible as we figure out the new laptops carts, PowerPoint, saving to One Drive, spell-checking in Français and more. Students are quick to help one another and are working hard to figure out all sorts of new tech challenges. Bravo, mes amis! 😊)

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AGENDA

1. Please take a moment to complete the COVID survey sent out from the school office this afternoon. (This is time sensitive. Please complete by tomorrow (Friday) at 4:30pm.)

2. If you have not had a chance to sign into Showbie and answer the questions, please take time to do so this evening. Thank you!

3. 2-question Math multiples 'check-in' - tomorrow (Friday) 

4. Final copy of goals (Français) - OVERDUE 

5. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

6. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

7. Photo retakes: November 2

A new seating plan, Math with whiteboards and more!

Happy snowy Wednesday, learning friends!

This morning flew by with so many things to cross off our list.

1. A new seating plan! - We have now been moved into socially distanced tables of four and are already enjoying the opportunity to collaborate with our peers. 

2. Math at the whiteboards / 'whitetables'! - This morning we worked on a Math word problem and a Math "Qui est l'intrus" activity in our new table groups, but rather than writing on paper, we worked either standing at the whiteboard or standing and writing on a whiteboard cling sheet on our tables.

We each had our own marker, but only one person could write at a time. (Pre-Covid, we would only have had 1 marker per group, which we would all take turns writing with.) We were each responsible for knowing how to explain our group's answer and supporting work; Mme could ask any of us for the answer or for the reasoning behind the answer, so we needed to collaborate to ensure we all understood.

It was great to hear so much Math talk first thing in the morning!

3. Science - We are happy to welcome 2 newly germinated tomato plants to Group P this morning! We have also been working on graphing and are getting quite good at identifying the independent and dependent variables of an experiment and at following the steps to create a complete graph.

4. Français - We have been working hard on drafting, conferencing, editing, correcting and publishing our "Mes buts" texts. Most of us are now done our final copies and have moved on to the representation portion of the assignment. This is where the laptops come in! (And, in the whirlwind of the morning, I didn't even get a single picture!)

We are using PowerPoint to create an inspiration board of our goals. We need to choose (at least) one picture and one word to represent each of our goals, and we can personalize our work by adding different backgrounds, fonts, colours, symbols and more!

Please ask me about my goals: Where am I with my writing process? What are my goals for the year? What pictures/words have I chosen to include on my inspiration board? What's the best/most frustrating part about using PowerPoint or a laptop?

5. For fun: We chatted about Google Translate in class yesterday and how writing a text in English and then translating it into French with an online platform is not truly our own written work in Français. Students are encouraged to use online dictionaries and grammar platforms to support their writing, along with the many tools offered in class (word walls, shared writing, text frames, peer-editing, writing conferencing) to create their best written work.

So, the fun part... Mme found a video involving the Fresh Prince of Belair theme song AND Google Translate, which sums up the importance of writing your own Français text in your own Français words quite nicely. 

Please CLICK HERE and enjoy! :) 

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AGENDA

1. If you have not have a chance to sign into Showbie and answer the questions, please take time to do so this evening. Thank you!

2. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

3. Draft of goals (Français) - OVERDUE

4. Final copy of goals (Français) - tomorrow (Thursday)

5. Photos for buts/tableau d'inspiration* - tomorrow (Thursday)

(* Optional. If you would like to add personalized photos please add to Showbie "Français" - "Tableau Inspiration.")

6. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

7. Photo retakes: November 2

Tuesday!

Hello, learning friends!

Today in Math we worked with our table partners to solve two Math word problems involving multiples.

Please ask me about the strategies my partner and I used to arrive at the answer. :)

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AGENDA

1. If you have not have a chance to sign into Showbie and answer the questions, please take time to do so this evening. Thank you!

2. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

3. Draft of goals (Français) - OVERDUE

4. Final copy of goals (Français) - Thursday

5. Photos for buts/tableau d'inspiration* - tomorrow/Thursday

(* Optional. If you would like to add personalized photos please add to Showbie "Français" - "Tableau Inspiration.")

6. Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

7. Photo retakes: November 2

SPIRIT WEEK!

🎃 Our first SPIRIT WEEK of the year is coming soon! 🎃

Be sure to show your SCHOOL SPIRIT next week (October 26-October 30) by dressing up!

😴 Monday: Journée de PJ (Pyjama Day)! 😴
It may not be the weekend anymore but this is a Monday where you can stay cozy and warm in your jammies all day long! You're welcome! :)

🥳 Tuesday: La tête décorée (Dress Up Your Face Day)! 🥳

Decorate your head in any way you please! 

Hat or face, crazy hair don't care… dress yourself up from the neck up! 

🏅 🎽 Wednesday: Maillot mercredi (Jersey Day)! 🎽 🏅
Let's Go! Show your school spirit by wearing your fave jersey/sports gear today! 

👯 Thursday: Journée de jumeaux/jumelles (Twin Day)! 👯
Today is the day for seeing double! Dress up just like your bestie, friends or classmates and be twins, triplets or a matching group for the day! 

👸 👹 👻 👾 Friday: Jour de costumes (Halloween Costumes)! 👿 👽 💀 💂 
Wear your Halloween costumes! 

* Please remember that all costumes must be school appropriate. 
* Masks and weapons associated with costumes will not be permitted. 

('Normal' masks still required). 😷

Multiples Monday!

Hello, learning families!

Happy Monday!

Today in Math we played a new game to practice finding the ppcm (plus petit commun multiple). Playing with our table partner, we rolled a pair of dice and had to find the ppcm of the numbers shown on the dice. From there, we placed a 'jeton' on the space indicating that number. The first player to mark three spaces in a row is the winner! Bravo!

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AGENDA

1. Please watch for an updated email being sent home in reference to the email that was sent home on Friday. If you did not have a chance to sign into Showbie and answer the questions and do your first home-reading book this weekend, please take time to do so this evening. Thank you!

2. Draft of goals (Français) - OVERDUE

3. Math multiples questions 4 - tomorrow (Tuesday)

4. French Reading using the Je lis website - Daily

5. Grade 6 Immunizations - Wednesday, October 21. Will be rescheduled.

6. Coming soon:

Our first Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (Click HERE for info!)

Photo retakes: November 2

Happy Friday!

Hooray! Six weeks of Grade 6 for the books!

There are quite a few agenda items today, so please take a moment to read through the list!

Wishing you all a wonderful (snowy!) weekend! :)

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AGENDA

1. Please watch for an email being sent home this afternoon outlining this weekend's homework. Students are being asked to: log in to Showbie, visit our home-reading site Je lis and. exploring a few online Math games if they have a chance.

2. Draft of goals (Français) - Monday

3. Math multiples questions 1,2,3. - Monday

4. Grade 6 Immunizations - Wednesday, October 21. Will be rescheduled.

5. Coming soon:

Our first Spirit Week! - October 26-30 (More info coming next week).

Photo retakes: November 2

Thursday!

Hello, everyone!

Here's a quick recap of our morning:

In Math we had our calcul mental math assessment, worked on finding common multiples, read a fun Math book and worked on another word problem with our table partner (this time involving robots!).

In Science, we did our daily Tomatosphere observations and noticed that some of our plants are starting to grow new leaves! We also completed our first broken-line graph.

We ended our morning with Français, watching two short videos featuring our new animated friend Léon. You can check out the videos HERE and HERE. 

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AGENDA

1. October Scholastic flyer was sent home today. (Class code: RC148269)

2. Revised due date: Draft of goals (Français) - Monday.

3. Keep an eye out for an email coming home tomorrow (Friday) re: Showbie, home reading, Math and more! :)

4. Grade 6 Immunizations - Wednesday, October 21.

Wednesday!

Hello, friends of learning!

Today was a special sort of day; we went on a 'field trip!'

This morning, during our double PA block, we headed down to the tech lab with M. Bodnar to sign in to our computer accounts and get set-up on Showbie!

We were SO excited to visit another space in the school - there is more to Ness than Room 208! :)

Waiting for M. Bodnar to call us to our computers!

Getting ready to log in! You can tell we all have BIG smiles under our masks! We are SO excited! :)

Merci beaucoup, M. Bodnar! :)

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AGENDA

1. Please ask me what we worked on in the computer lab this morning!

2. Évaluation calcul mental - tomorrow (Thursday)

3. Brouillon: Les buts - Friday

Happy Tuesday!

Hello, learning friends!

It's great to be back after our three-day weekend!

We started our morning sharing about our weekend with our classmates: either the best thing we did or the best thing we ate.

Then in Math, we worked with our table partners to solve an emoji word problem.

In Science, we got caught up with all of our weekend tomato observations, and in Français, we played a new game and had some time to work on writing our drafts for our goals.

Items of note:

1. Many students were not finished their mental math practice questions (Section B) today. The questions were assigned Thursday of last week. We will be correcting the questions tomorrow (Wednesday) in class instead.

2. Keeping track of assignments (agendas and other options) - As a result of many incomplete Math sheets (refer to item 1), we had a brief chat about ways of keeping track of school tasks, whether it be an agenda, a homework folder, sticky notes or checking our classroom blog daily (a shortcut link can easily be placed on the home screen of a smartphone or tablet if students are connected to technology). Developing a routine now will ensure continued success as we move further into the school year. Please check in with you child to see what system they have in place for keeping track of their school work.

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AGENDA

1. Calcul mental Section B - Tuesday Wednesday

2. Évaluation calcul mental - Thursday

3. Brouillon: Les buts - Thursday

Thanksgiving Day Tomato Update!

Hello! Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I am thankful for the sunshine, and it appears as though our tomato plants are, too! :)

Here they are:

Group N

Group P

I hope you are all having a most wonderful weekend! 🦃

Weekend Tomato Update - 2

Happy Sunday!

The school is a but chilly - 17C - but the tomato plants are still growing!

Take a look! :)

Group N 

Group P

Weekend Tomato Update - 1

Happy Saturday!

Just checking in with a quick tomato update.

Not too much new to report - 1 newly germinated plant for Group N, meaning both groups each now have 10 germinated plants! 🌱

Group N

Group P

Have a great day! :)

Happy Friday!

Hello, families!

We had busy - but great! - morning together.

We took Math outside this morning! Working in pairs, we completed a Thanksgiving "Amazing Race" activity, that included Math and Français questions! Congrats to everyone for their great effort! :)

In Science, we put a beaker of water on a hot plate and recorded the temperature every minute for 11 minutes. We will use this data to review and practice our graphing skills next week.

In Français, we created "Thankful Pumpkins" as a way to publish our writing. We worked in the gymnasium so we could spread out and work collaboratively - while still social distancing - in groups.

Check out this video of us working!

We each wrote 10 things we are thankful for; writing one sentence on each orange strip. We then followed a set of instructions Mme laid out for us to put our pumpkins together. 

Here is our socially distanced Thanksgiving class picture!

And here is Mme Careen's attempt at a panoramic shot, so that she could get a bit closer to see our lovely, smiling-behind-our-mask faces! :)

Wishing you all a very safe and restful Thanksgiving long weekend!

Enjoy the sunshine - and the pie! :)

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AGENDA

1. Calcul mental - "Double" Section B -Tuesday

2. Please have your 4 school-year goals (2 academic and 2 outside of school) and your action plans ready to go for Tuesday.

3. Stay tuned to the blog this weekend for exclusive Tomato updates! 🍅 

4. Scholastic flyers! Please see Scholastic post for more info! (Class Code: RC148269)

Happy Thursday!

Hello, learning friends!

Here's a quick look at our morning together.

Today in our PA block with Mr Bodnar and Mme Schmidt, we worked through our next Project 11 lesson. Here is a picture of 10 things we should keep in our 'Resiliency Toolkit."

In Math, we practiced our multiples by colouring in squares to reveal a mystery photo!

Ta da! Superheroes!

We ended the morning with Science and had some exciting data to record!

Each Tomato group had 4 new germinated seeds, with many more promising to sprout soon!

Super Resiliency, Super Math Heroes and Super Space Tomatoes all in one morning.

 How Super Fun is that?! :)

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AGENDA

1. Calcul mental - "Double" Section B -Tuesday

2. Please have your 4 school-year goals (2 academic and 2 outside of school) and your action plans ready to go for Tuesday.

3. Scholastic flyers! Please see Scholastic post for more info! (Class Code: RC148269)

4. Photo proofs have arrived! Place your orders online OR return orders forms to school by Friday, October 9. 

And we have germination! 🍅

A very happy Wednesday, friends!

It's a very exciting day in Room 208! 2 of our tomato seeds - one from Group N and one from Group P - have germinated!

These results came as a bit of a surprise; at 10:00 when we made our daily observations, we saw only the stems, but by the end of the morning (11:50) both had sprouted 2 cotyledons (small embryonic leaves) which is what we need to see in order to count the seeds as germinated! Hooray!

In other morning news: in Math we continued to work on multiples and in Francais, we played a new game - Qui suis-je? Pirate Edition - before spending time working on our goal planning for the year.

Please ask me about my goals for the year. Please also ask me to recite some multiples for you. (We find that hopping on one foot while saying them aloud makes it especially fun! 😄 )

Have a great afternoon! :)

Colourful multiples!

Arrrr... pirates!

A video of us reflecting on and writing our goals and action plans for the year.

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AGENDA

1. Calcul mental - "Double" Section A - tomorrow (Thursday)

2. "Toothbrush homework" - Please start thinking about 4 goals you would like to accomplish this year (2 academic and 2 outside of school). Also start considering how you will accomplish these goals (action plan). We will continue writing our goals for the year later this week.

3. We are starting a graphing unit in Science this week. Please ensure you have a pencil and ruler. Graph paper will be provided by Mme Careen.

4. Scholastic flyers! Please see Scholastic post for more info! (Class Code: RC148269)

5. Photo proofs have arrived! Place your orders online OR return orders forms to school by Friday, October 9. 

Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday!

We started our day reading this great Math book! It got our brains thinking and trying new multiplication strategies. For example, did you know, when multiplying by 7, you can first multiply by 5, and then by two, and then add together for the answer? It's true! Let's try!

Ex: 7 x 12

5 x 12 = 60    

2 x 12 = 24     

60 + 24 = 84, therefore 7 x 12 = 84! Cool!

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AGENDA

1. Calcul mental - "Double" Section A -Thursday

2. "Toothbrush homework" - Please start thinking about 4 goals you would like to accomplish this year (2 academic and 2 outside of school). Also start considering how you will accomplish these goals (action plan). We will continue writing our goals for the year later this week.

3. We are starting a graphing unit in Science this week. Please ensure you have a pencil and ruler. Graph paper will be provided by Mme Careen.

4. Scholastic flyers! Please see Scholastic post for more info! (Class Code: RC148269)

5. Photo proofs have arrived! Place your orders online OR return orders forms to school by Friday, October 9. 

Monday Agenda Items

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AGENDA

1. "Toothbrush homework" - Please start thinking about 4 goals you would like to accomplish this year (2 academic and 2 outside of school). Also start considering how you will accomplish these goals (action plan). We will begin writing our goals for the year later this week.

2. *Reminder: Early Dismissal Tomorrow (Tuesday)

3. Scholastic flyers! Please see Scholastic post for more info! (Class Code: RC148269)

4. Photo proofs have arrived! Place your orders online OR return orders forms to school by Friday, October 9. 

Happy Friday!

September is done and October is already off to a great start!

This morning, we: stretched our brains with a National Geographic question in Math, completed our hypotheses and daily observations in Science, and finished our morning reading the picture book Terry and Me, a book about Terry Fox and his best friend Doug Alward.

We have been working hard and are ready for the weekend!

Wishing you all a great one! :)

Here is the English version of the Math problem we looked at today in class.
We did not get to part d) so feel free to explore over the weekend! :)

Drawing our tomato plant observations. Not much to see just yet!

We'll be making daily observations of our tomato plants, including the date, classroom temperature and the number of germinated tomato seeds. Again, not much to report since yesterday.

Click HERE to listen to the book (read by the author).

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AGENDA

1. Scholastic flyers! Please see Scholastic post for more info! (Class Code: RC148269)

2. Ness Gear - Order your Chevalier gear before it's too late! Online store is open until Sunday, October 4.

3. Photo proofs have arrived! Place your orders online OR return orders forms to school by Friday, October 9.