Music Festival Week

• Sorry for no post last week, but my family and I were hit with that Plague of a Flu that many of you also experienced first hand. Hopefully we have all seen the last of that one!
• The Music Festival is Monday morning at the Trinity United Church in Summerside. I know many of you like to attend and it is always hard to give an exact time on when they will preform. The information I have says 9:20 am, but from past experiences it could be later than that.
• I was OVER JOYED this week with the students' writing. They are really going that extra mile to impress me with their description and detail in their work. I had tears in my eyes when many of them shared their Favorite Place write ups. 
• Our Literacy Assessments are fast approaching, as they start a week from Wednesday. There was an information Pamphlet sent out on Thursday and if you have any other questions regarding them please call or email me. This week the only homework I will assign is each night there will be a short one page story from their grey folders and on the back their will be 5 Multiply Choice Questions for them to answer based on their understanding of the text. I really encourage everyone to watch your child do these "independently" and then discuss their answers with them once they are done to double check they selected the best answers. If you noticed that they have missed the main idea of the story please encourage them to reread it and really think about the story.This will be great practice for the Reading Comprehension Assessments and will also be a good indicator for you how your child is doing independently. Then I will not assign any homework for the 2 week period of Assessments.The best thing they can do before an Assessment is get a good nights sleep and a great breakfast to start the day.
• Division is going awesome! Since the students had such a great grasp on Multiplication, division seems to be a snap for most of them.
• Monday is Drink and Food Order Day.
• If you go to the following website http://www.journalpioneer.com/FlyingPage/4774/Mothers-Day-Contest and click on view entries some of you Moms will have a nice surprise. Currently their are 48 entries there, unfortunately you have to click on a bunch to find yours. But right now Grade 3's Amherst Cove entries start on the 2nd page and if you go to the 6th one with a Title: Mom and Public Name: T Stretch and from there on you will find some very sweet messages. Claire and Jeanna's Mom's are the only ones I couldn't see yet- so hopefully they will be there soon. The Journal is also going to print some of them in next Saturday's paper. The kids are so excited for you to see them!