Library Books are due Monday Feb 29th. This is also our last day of Alien in-line skating.
If you are interested in purchasing Scholastic Books, I will send the form away Monday Feb 29th. This gives you the weekend to peruse and see if anything interests you. I hope to upload some pictures from our 100th day this weekend. We had a great time and counted to 100 often.
Here are the new vocabulary words for the next few weeks:
Books are due this Friday. With the 100th day celebration we will have Library in the p.m.
Good news/bad news...
The Good news is the students are using tissues to blow their noses and not the other unsightly thing that grade oners tend to do!
The Bad News is we are almost out of boxes of tissues...
so if everyone could PLEASE send another box, it should last us until the end of the year. MERCI.
We are working on a French center idea called "Les 5 au Quotidien" or in English "The Daily 5" whereby students rotate centers and are asked to work on literature. The above photo is Reading to a Friend. The one to the right is Reading to Self (comfy pillows included)
This is a photo of students working on writing.
The last station "Listening to Reading" is still a work in progress as is "One on One time with the teacher". All of these centers will help your child to become a better reader and also to help them read for comprehension, which will be our next big push from now to the end June.
Math: We are beginning to learn about place value, for example, ones, tens and hundreds. Friday of this week is our 100th day so we will be counting to 100 several times over.
Science: We are finishing the unit on the 5 senses and an evaluation will be forthcoming this week.
Etudes Sociales: We will be starting our unit on the Past vs the Present. Speak to your child about traditions that you had growing up revolving around holidays so they can compare that with what you do now. Or go one step further and talk to grandparents and their growing up years.
English: We will be looking at the short vowel "u" in words such as "rug, bun, pup" and also I would like to get the students to think about writing a story based on the elements that we previously studied (setting, character, problem, solution).
Health: Evaluation on the 4 food groups this week. They did an awesome job on their coloring of certain foods in each group.
Can I tell you how proud of the students I was after the Ash Wednesday celebration? I was so full of love and admiration and pride for their practicing,their participation, and their respect throughout the whole time. Well done les amis de Mme Colette et de Mme Chantal. xo
Happy Carnaval!
It was great to see students dressed in checkered shirts today. Tomorrow, if possible, they should add a "ceinture fléchée" or a scarf around their waist and Wednesday they are to add a tuque and rubber boots. (I have reservations about that though, as we are in the celebration...maybe a change of clothes??...if you can swing it...nice clothes for the morning and then we can change into lumberjacks for the afternoon activities...if not don't sweat it).
Today in BFG we made marshmallow snowmen and tomorrow we are putting up our banner. This afternoon, we danced and jigged in Français. So much to do...so little time!
French: reading, reading, reading. And speaking, speaking speaking in French! Next week we will have new vocabulary words.
Math: some students are still struggling with + and - and maybe some at home practice is necessary. I will email individuals who still need help.
Science: finishing the 5 senses...funniest part was the taste testing and everyone thought they were getting chocolate but it was 70% pure...can you say run to the fountain! Not many liked the lemon juice either. In french we tasted sucre (sweet), amer (bitter), sale (salty) and acide (tart).
Health: we are finishing up the 4 basic food groups...evaluation to come.
We are in the midst of practicing for the Ash Wednesday celebration. If you want to play the songs at home, they are "40 days" by Matt Maher and "Create a new heart" by Michael Mangan. Also, the students who have been selected to read, have been given their readings to practice. Please be diligent with this. Merci.
We are in the middle of evaluations as well and I have noticed a clear division between the students who are reading at home every night and those that are not. Reading every night is mandatory and helps with the success of your child. Students will be bringing home sound wheels this week. We may not have learned all of the sounds yet, but at this time, all students need to be decoding (ie: sounding out the letters, syllables and hence words). Regardless of whether this is done in French or English, decoding is the first step to reading.
With the carnaval happening next week, I see a HUGE improvement on students speaking French to each other. It is music to my ears!
Library is Friday this week.
Here are the French sight words that I promised last week:
Je Voici Elle Il dans porte et
est sur Il y a C'est Tu sous J'ai
avec est a
