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.   

Semaine du 4 au 14 février 2019

Bonjour,

The students worked hard on their fictional story. We learned about using transition words to make it easier to follow the story and the divide the story. We shared our stories with partners, and worked on making good comments and constructive comments to other improve their stories.

We had a special activities with the grade one to help them drawing and to some physical activities. The students loved it. They were communicate in French with their little friends which make them good model for them. 

In social studies, we started the new unit on Ontario. We began by identifying on a map what is around Ontario. In sciences, we also started the new unit on structure. We began by filling out the first part of chart (SDA: je sais, je me demande, j'ai appris). Then we learned about asking good questions with the proper French structure. 

We were in charge of the January Assembly (we did it early February). The students prepared amazing posters on perseverance using French sentences. Everyone loved the posters. 

Almost everyone has finished with the Art project with the mountains and the watercolour paint. The results are fabulous .  The students are really proud of themself. 

Dates: 

14 février: Report Cards go home

15 février: PD Day no school

18 février: Family Day no school

Semaine du 28 janvier au 1er février 2019

Bonjour,

Lots happened in the last 2 weeks.

In writing, we worked on writing a story with details that make sense. We used the picture of shawarma to explain the concept.  For example, good shawarma will have the humous, the meat, the right vegetable in it, like cucumber, tomatoes, onions. All those ingredients go together. It is like the details of the story go with that story, to make sense.
Also, we talked about not putting too many ingredients in the shawarma, so it is possible to wrap the pita without breaking it so everything stays together and it is easier to eat it. Like a story, there are just enough details to make it interesting. Not enough detail make the story a little bit boring, too many details make the story difficult to follow.

We learned about the structure of a fictional story, using a plan and many books as examples. We used a funny version of the 3 little pigs as the main example. The students are working on creating their own version of the three little "something". Someone is writing about "Les trois petits poissons et le grand méchant requin".

In art, we did a project that mixes many techniques such as using pencil and watercolor paint. This project is using lines and perception. The artist is Jen Aranyi. We are creating beautiful mountains and colorful sky.  

Jen Aranyi's artwork.

Little artists at work!

In the past 2 weeks, the students have been evaluated in reading. A little update has been sent home on Friday, February 1st. A new objective will be to work on the word endings.

For example, in the word "petite", the "e" at the end (I call it "le E magique") tells us to sound out the "t". But in the word "petit", the "t" is silent because there is no "e" at the end. 

Dates: 

Friday, February 8th: skating 

Semaine du 14 au 18 janvier 2019

Bonjour ,

This week, the students continued to work on publishing their Santa Claus story. They worked on the illustrations and on the cover page. Most of them have almost finished. Here is some examples:

We used some time to revise for the Social Studies quiz (on Tuesday January 22th). So we discussed about what are the main ideas of what we have learned about the pioneers. We underlined specific informations to study.

Skating Forms went home on Friday January 18th. We are going skating on February 1st, 8, 22 and March 1st from 11:30 to 12:50. Please let me know if you would like to come to help, you are more than welcome.

In Art, the students learned how to draw like Vincent Van Gogh, using different lines.

We have started to do active pause during the day as the students got the routine so well. They know that after the active pause they have to go back to work right away. :)

Scholastic forms have been send on Friday. If you would like to order some books, you can either send me your order with a check to Scholastic or you can find my name under the school to order online.

Date:
January 25th is a PD Day (no school for students)

Semaine du 7 au 11 janvier

Bonjour,

Bonne Année ! Happy New Year! Welcome back.

This week was a great week. The students remember all the routine so it was an easy week back to school.

This week, in reading, we worked on our new goal: reading with fluency. Which means that we can read like with talk. We did some small activities to recognize what level of fluency the reader is doing. Here is the anchor chart with the different levels. We are looking for level 3 .

In writing, we are working on publishing our Holidays stories to make a small book. Focusing on good printing skills, correcting plural, capital letters and periods. Correcting also the words for the list that we made to help us with more specific words.

In sciences, we revised as a group for the quiz that we did on Friday. The students did really good.

The students chose a personal objective (instead of a resolution) and wrote strategies to help them attain their goals. This is part of the learning skills (to be able to sets own individual goal and monitor progress towards achieving them). You are welcome to discuss with your child what goal he/she chose and what are his/her strategies.

In Physical Education, lots of strategies were made in order to win the game. It was amazing to see all that beautiful collaboration.

Semaine du 17 au 21 décembre

Bonjour,

What a fantastic week we had. Festival of lights was great with all the different activities about the different celebrations.

For writing, we continued our stories. We focused on using the correction code to verify the capital letters and the periods. We also verified the plural of the nouns and we used the word wall to correct our sight words.

On Tuesday, we went to MacSkimming ! Wow! that place is amazing. We learned so much. We worked in team to build a house. We experienced what was school back then. We participated in daily chores that the pioneer's child was doing. We even build our own wooden toy. That day would be in our mind for ever!

Have a great 2 weeks. See you all in 2019!!!!!