A mighty wind is blowing...

Today was blustery, inside AND outside the classroom! A fair bit of time was taken up with the Sweat-a-Thon assembly, and a fire drill interrupted our Hockey Pool draft in the afternoon. We finished up our work with decimals, and students had 1/2 hour to work on their practice test. I will update more later, but a few notes for now:

• Students must finish their practice tests tonight. This test follows the exact same format as tomorrow's test, so if students feel comfortable with this material they will do just fine. If your child has trouble with a question, please look through their DuoTang de Maths with them (or their exercise book), and find other examples that mirror those on their test.
• I will help students with any remaining questions they have in the morning. However, I am disappointed when students ask how to do something, but haven't done any workings in an effort to solve it themselves.
• 8 students successfully answered the question I posted on KidBlog yesterday. This meets my requirement for the activity, and therefore students will get a pizza party before the end of October. Good job, everybody!
• The school raised nearly $20,000 in the Sweat-a-Thon. This will be a great help in our fundraising efforts, and I wholeheartedly appreciate the huge effort you all made to help us out.
• Tomorrow I will be assigning new "Words of the Week", as well as giving out a new book and testing students on the book they read this week. We will also continue working on our Social Studies project and have our Math test in the afternoon.

Today's Hockey Pool draft was lots of fun! The kids picked their respective teams, and I created them online. Students can now go look at this pool, which will update daily.

The address is www.onlinepools.com
The username is 143530
The password is Paterson

Have fun! I will be upgrading to a Premium package tonight, which will allow even more features within the next week. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.