Semaine du 18 au 22 mars 2019

Bonjour,

Lots happen in the past week. In French, we discuss the difference between ''mes'' and ''mais'' as it have the same sound but not the same meaning. So we used a little trick. If you can replace 'mes' with 'les' and it makes sense then you use 'mes' . If you replace by 'les' and it makes not sense then you use 'mais'.

In reading, we are still continuing to work on paying attention to the word endings using many strategies such as looking carefully, taking our times, pointing at words if that helps, and asking if it makes sense. 

In sciences, we continued to work on stable structure. Making experiment on what can make a tower more stable. We found out that making a large base and making the base more heavy make the structure more stable. 

In writing, we are working on writing about small moment. We use picture to visualize (melon, slice, seed).  We will continue to work on that in the next week.

In social studies, we worked in team to find information about where are the cities on a map. The students worked really well with the ipads. They respected the rules about using technology. They were able to find maps to help them figured out where the cities were on a blank map of Ontario.

Semaines du 18 février au 1er mars

Bonjour tout le monde,

It was nice to finally be able to go skating. The students did really well. Many of them got better to it and it was nice to see them improve. Special thanks to all the volunteers :)

In French, we were working on grammar. We continued with the plural of nouns by adding the adjective. We talked about writing the adjective and the nouns in plural. (All the words in the group need to be on the same ''team'' : singular or plural). For example: singular : un petit chat; plural : des petits chats (all the words are either singular or plural).

Last week, we worked on writing a new story. Working step by step to make sure we developed each part properly, discussing the words that we would need for each part according to the picture provided. The students are now working on the correction focusing on using the word wall and dictionary to ensure the sight words are correctly spelled. Some students have started to do the covert pages of their book.

In reading, we are still practicing to pay more attention to the word endings using our strategies such as looking at the words til the end of it, asking yourself if it makes sense, pointing the words if need it, taking our time to read.

In science, we worked on the ''structure stable''. We discussed what we already know, and shared some questions that we have. We defined some science vocabulary as one of our objective is to communicate using proper French vocabulary. We worked in teams to do a first experiment using 3 different size of toilet paper rolls: small, medium, and tall. First, we shared prediction (hypothèse), then realised the experiment respecting the procedure and filling out the chart with the results. We described what happened (communiquer les résultats) and finished with the conclusion (explication of why the tallest fall first). 

In Social studies, we are continuing to identify parts, town, the great Lakes on a map. Learning about the official symbol of Ontario (trille, huard). 

Dates: 

March Scolastics order due on March 18th.

March break 11th to 15th.