Happy Spring Break...
Some of the projects that needed to be done this week may have to go home to be completed. Please note we have been working on these for some time now, so those that are behind, may be so due to work habits in class.

FLA: poetry booklet
Science: poster on Flight
ART: sketchbook texture and grid picture

LENTOPOLY for the week: Students can choose when they do each of these, but it is for a 24hr period 1h30pm-1h30pm religion time
1. No computer zone
2. Cheerfully do someone else's chore
3. Do someone's homework or chore for 2 tokens
4. Light a candle and pray for your godparents
5. Pick up trash in your neighborhood

Enjoy the time off and the sun...may it continue to shine!

Actualité boni!
Quelle est la date que l'élection provincial aura lieu?

Lentopoly:
 In confession. Spend 3 minutes talking to God about something you did wrong in the past 3 days. Say an act of contrition. Example below

Also for homework tonight, students need to bring materials necessary to make a parachute. This includes the sail part and the strings. I will provide the weight. They can also make their own paper airplane as we are testing out 2 versions to see which will go the farthest. 

With the sloppy weather, please send an extra pair of dry socks to avoid smelly feet. I thank you!


Here is a link for any information on the PAT's including some practice questions on Quest A+
https://education.alberta.ca/knowledge-and-employability/provincial-achievement-tests-pats/everyone/achievement-documents/

Actualités:
La ville de Calgary vient tout juste de nommer le nom de notre nouveau chef de police. Qui est-ce?

This week in Learning:
First of all, huge kudos to the businesses for their superb salesmanship on Thursday and Friday during the interviews. Some orders still need to be filled, but hopefully they can get done by the end of this week. Bravo les amis, je suis fière de vous!

MATH: perimeter and area for polygones. we are ahead in Math, which is good, but behind in other subjects which is not good.

ELA: Reading a few chapters of Shadows and trying to get back on track. For the next chapters, students will be writing the summaries.We missed a few classes due to CTF.

FLA: continuing with poems. Students should have chosen their poem for the Gala by today, 

SCIENCE: Moving onto flight. Students will be asked to make a parachute and a paper airplane this week to see how lift (portance) and drag (trainee) work. Projects on the history of flight were due today. We will also finsih posters on flight this week.

SOCIAL: test on municipal government Thursday. We will begin the Provincial government this week. Here is the website for the province of AB, which has a ton of good info for students to search through to get a better idea. They should be familiar with the ministries and the ministers in charge and also keep up-to-date with the election coming soon.
https://www.alberta.ca/index.aspx

Religion: Lentopoly continues and students become the teacher this week in three lessons.

ART: proportion assignment and Sketchbook are both due April 1st upon return to school.

This week: 
Semaine de la francopholie all week
Fictional character day and pizza day Thursday
Jump rope for heart kick off  Tuesday
Pay back Parent Council loans Tuesday (CTF)...all Loans have been paid back! Way to go students!

Lentopoly for the weekend:
Light a candle and pray for your parents.
Pray for your priest.

quoi etudier pour le test d'Etudes Sociales

Lentopoly Wednesday:
Pick up garbage in your neighbourhood

Those of you that are sick or absent, please work on your science research so that you can get to work on the poster when you return. Merci

Lentopoly Tuesday: pray the rosary for those in purgatory for 4 tokens

Actualites:
Le discours du trône de la province de l'Alberta est prévu d'arriver lundi prochain. Que veut dire cela?

Lentopoly Monday:
 Cheerfully give up sweets for 24hrs.

choix de Poemes: 

#1.  

Pour devenir une sorcière

A l'école des sorcières On apprend les mauvaises manières D'abord ne jamais dire pardon Etre méchant et polisson S'amuser de la peur des gens Puis détester tous les enfants A l'école des sorcières On joue dehors dans les cimetières D'abord à saute-crapaud Ou bien au jeu des gros mots Puis on s'habille de noir Et l'on ne sort que le soir A l'école des sorcières On retient des formules entières D'abord des mots très rigolos Comme "chilbernique" et "carlingot" Puis de vraies formules magiques  Et là il faut que l'on s'applique.

#2.

 La vie n'est pas toujours facile.

Libre de penser, de rire et d'aimer,
Profiter des secondes de bonheur,
De paix, de joie et savoir décider,
Sans aucune crainte et sans peur :
Savoir dire non, oser et choisir,
Construire, entreprendre et bâtir.

Il suffit de si peu de chose,
Un peu de courage si j'ose.
La vie n'est pas toujours facile,
Mais il suffit de redresser la tête,
D'affronter certaines adversités,
Avec beaucoup de sincérité.

Suivre son cœur, ses pensées,
Ses choix et ses propres idées.
C'est alors et seulement ainsi,
Que l'on devient acteur de sa vie.

Il faut dans la vie savoir aussi,
Tendre la main à qui en a besoin,
Sans espérer un retour... ni rien,
Juste se dire que c'était bien.

Alors s'installe l'harmonie avec soi-même,
Et ainsi le monde parait presque parfait !


Maxalexis

#3.

This week in Learning:

Social: information regarding Wards is due this Thursday. Students to send it to me via email. 
Today we looked at how local governments are elected and how citizens can become engaged. I anticipate finishing this unit soon and having the test on March 21st before break.

Science: We are working on some research and today students randomly picked either a bird or an insect to depict on a poster how they fly. This will be due next week as well.  We are also learning about the four forces of flight: drag (trainée), lift (portance), thrust (poussée) and weight (poids). 

MATH: moving onto the polygones and area.

ELA: continuing Shadows

FLA: learning a new poem. As well, I want students to have their poem chosen for the Gala Oratoire by this Thursday. In the next blog, I have chosen three that they can use, or they can find one on their own.

RELIGION: Lentopoly continues, as does our preparation for Easter. Did you know that the church changes the color of the cloths and robes to purple during Lent?

ART: still working on our grid pictures. Sketchbooks with texture due April 1st.

This week:
Speedskating today
French play tomorrow, as well as a Metis elder coming to speak to students in the p.m.
CTF work tomorrow...last class
Selling CTF products Thursday and Friday
Bake Sale Thursday and Friday
Interviews Thursday and Friday

There are still some spots to sign up for the Bake Sale as well as the CTF sales for Thursday and Friday. Please have a look and volunteerr your time. Thank you.
Progress reports go home today and envelopes will need to come back to school signed by parents.
 

Devoirs d'Etudes Sociales:
En google docs tu dois rechercher les informations suivantes:
1) le nom de ta municipalité local et de ton conseiller
2) les autres quartiers qui appartiennent ā ton Ward
3) Les comités sur lesquelles ton conseiller travaille

Me l'envoyer par courriel avant le 12 mars

There will be some tired kids tonight! 
For those that left early, you don't need to read all of chapter 4, as I will give you time in class to finish reading with the questions.
The Actualite question is in the previous weekly BLOG in th eSocial Studies section.

This week in Learning:
Today we had dry land training and we go to the oval on Wednesday and next Monday. Thank you to the parents who volunteered to help us out.

ELA: we continue working our way through Shadows of disaster. Chapter 3 questions are due tomorrow.

FLA: we began a unit on poetry today that will move us into the Gala oratoire, a French speaking forum for immersion students. We started with a fun take on words called a mot-valise which fuses 2 words together to make a new one. Creativity is the name of the game in this unit.

MATH: fractions test will go home tomorrow to be signed. I find that not all students return their tests signed...is that because you don't see them, or because they are living in students' backpacks? To prepare for the PAT's these returned tests will help enormously for studying. Please return them.
We are working on geometry next... a lot of vocabulary to review each night. 

SCIENCE: we will be moving into flight as we are nearly done air. Students will be making a poster about an animal or object that flies this week.

SOCIAL: continuing with Local government. Homework sheets that students needed to do with you on the services that use are due tomorrow. Several Social test on Iroquois did not return to school signed.
Actualité cette semaine: lundi les conseillers se sont réunis derrières les portes fermées pour discuter quel sujet encore une fois...(ce n'est pas le fluore cette fois, mais un sujet qui a eu beaucoup de discussions à l'automne).

RELIGION: we are working on Social justice and students had been asked to bring in gently used towels, blankets or stuffed toys. To date 1 student has helped out. The curriculum centers around doing things for others...help us make a difference.

ART: continuing "Blowing up" images...those students who have begun are doing a great job so far. At least one more class for this assignment.

Progress reports go home on Friday. 
Students also need to be on the lookout for sign-up sheets for Bake Sale (coming soon) and the CTF sales of their goods. The latter has been sent to their learn accounts and they can sign up as needed. We will be hosting the sale in the Learning Commons. One more class for production and finalities.

IMPORTANT:

Speedskating this Wednesday...
Students need to wear:
Long sleeves 
comfy pants
long socks ( no crew cut or ankle)
They can bring their own helmut and gloves and they need to know their shoe size.