Last week in October is upon us! I cant believe it!
This week class the students will be doing several Halloween related activities. We are reading stories in both French and English about Halloween. The students will have the chance to carve a pumpkin and estimate the number of pumpkin seeds each pumpkin will have. We will talk about what kind of face we want to carve on our pumpkins which will tie into our health unit of feelings and emotions. The students will also be creating their own Haunted House book. They will have to use their dictionaries to help them with this project. They continue to work on their Family tree. Thanks for sending in the pictures to make this happen. Once finished they will present their tree to the class in French using the proper vocabulary.
In math, we are starting to introduce the concept 1 de plus (1 more than), 1 de moins (1 less than), 2 de plus (2 more than), and 2 de moins (2 less than). I emailed you all a spinner to use at home and a dice that you can put together to practice this concept. Feel free to print out a number line for you child to look at or have manipulatives for them to use.
Science, the students learned that their brain is the power house to their being! All the senses they experience go back to the brain. I included a di in the email last night. Feel free to practice the vocabulary for the 5 senses as well as pointing out when they are using their senses.
In Social Studies, the students are learning how to distinguish groups based on their clothing, language, symbols or culture. We will look at different music from around the world in the next couple of days as another way to distinguish cultures and languages.
I have sent home the fruits and veggies sheet, which lists each students name and date they are to bring in items for the class to try. This is a part of our healthy eating unit as well as French learning the proper names for fruits and vegetables in French. In years past the students end up loving this project and are sad when it is finished. If you are unable to participate please let me know in advance so I may make arrangements for that day. The rule in class is that EVERY student must try the items regardless if they THINK they do not like it. They can spit it out or simply put it on their tongue to give it a try. I have found that once they all see their peers trying new things out, they are more willing to give things a try. Thanks in advance for your support of this project. Note that if you cannot find the items your child has listed, just replace it with something different that is not already on the list.
Friday in class we will have a little Halloween celebration. You may send in a Healthy treat with your child if you wish to do so. If you wish to come in and do a Halloween craft, feel free to let me know and we can arrange a time. Last year I encouraged the parents to dress up to pick up and drop off their child to school to make the day more exciting, feel free to do so! A reminder for Halloween costumes. Your child is responsible for putting on their own costume. If they require make-up please be sure to have applied it before coming to school. Masks are not allowed, nor are weapons of any sort.
If your child is in choir they can purchase a choir t-shirt for 10$. Please send in the money or cheque to Holy name School, with your child's name clearly marked on it.
Library is tomorrow. FYI.
I believe that is it for this week. Have a great week and a super safe Halloween.
Laurie Anne
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Back on the ball!
Happy Monday everyone,
It was great seeing some of you at the Gala on Saturday night. Its always a great time to get together outside of school. A huge thank you to all of you for your support with the Gala Basket, attending the Gala and purchasing items to make our school better for the students.
Fred Penner was great this morning....at least I thought so. I was tapping my hands and dancing around. At one point I was up dancing and my students gave me that look that said "Sit down now, you are embarrassing us." I cant help liking "Puff the Magic Dragon". Sitting there listening to the songs though I must say has reminded me how important they are. Most of the songs he sung where rhyming and he had the students repeat after him, guess the next lyric. It was great.
Just a reminder to you all about the reading packages. Do not forget to log the title of the books that your child is reading. This helps the parent volunteers to figure out what level of book they should have also of what titles they have had already. It also helps me know that you are reading at home and if I need more leveled books rather then others. Thanks again for returning them on time!
Another note, if your child is taking extra work home to work on, please make sure they use a pencil. It is hard to correct mistakes that are in pen or marker. I am beyond proud of your children who have asked to take work home to get caught up. Bravo!
This week in class in French, the students will be starting to learn Halloween vocabulary and working on little projects centered around the big day. We have started our literacy centers in class and they are going great. This allows me to work with a small group of students on reading strategies while other students are in centers. So far all the groups that I have worked with are over the moon to start learning how to read in French. Some students have even started to volunteer to read to the whole class during our reading period. Its amazing to see how fast some of them are catching on. Please continue to practice at home, your hard work is paying off! We will also be starting our family trees this week, so please be sure to send in those family pictures. Please note we will be cutting them soo do not send in any that you don't want cut up. Please have them in ASAP. I would like to start Wednesday.
Science, the students are starting to learn about their 5 sense as well as the names for body parts in French. In order for your child to become aware of their 5 senses, you can beginning pointing out when they are using the senses in their daily activities. For example, when you are cooking supper, ask them what they think they are having based on what they smell? What do they taste....
In Math, we continue to learn how to represent numbers. We have been practicing associating words to numbers up to 20. I will send home those word bags in the next couple of weeks to practice at home. I will be testing your child in the next couple weeks on number recognition up to 20 out of sequence, oral pronunciation of numbers up to 20 as well as counting forwards and backwards from 1-20. Feel free to practice these skills at home.
In English, students continue to learn letter sounds in English. We have been focusing on finding the rhyming words in books. This week in class we will take a look at the beginning sounds of words as well as ending sounds. This is a perfect way to review sounds and the beginning of decoding words.
I will be randomly picking students this week to go over their English site words on their paint chips. Please be sure to review with your child.
This week in school we have a guest speaker chatting to us all the way from my home in PEI. John Connolly who is a good friend of mine and my husbands will be speaking to the children about his play that he has wrote, produced about Terry Fox. He tried to present the day of the Terry Fox run but we had technical difficulties. He is fabulous and is supper talented. I will attach a link to his website so you can read more on him if it interests you as well as one of his song. This is the song he sang as I walked down the isle.
http://johnconnolly.ca/
I will leave you with that! Have a great week everyone!
It was great seeing some of you at the Gala on Saturday night. Its always a great time to get together outside of school. A huge thank you to all of you for your support with the Gala Basket, attending the Gala and purchasing items to make our school better for the students.
Fred Penner was great this morning....at least I thought so. I was tapping my hands and dancing around. At one point I was up dancing and my students gave me that look that said "Sit down now, you are embarrassing us." I cant help liking "Puff the Magic Dragon". Sitting there listening to the songs though I must say has reminded me how important they are. Most of the songs he sung where rhyming and he had the students repeat after him, guess the next lyric. It was great.
Just a reminder to you all about the reading packages. Do not forget to log the title of the books that your child is reading. This helps the parent volunteers to figure out what level of book they should have also of what titles they have had already. It also helps me know that you are reading at home and if I need more leveled books rather then others. Thanks again for returning them on time!
Another note, if your child is taking extra work home to work on, please make sure they use a pencil. It is hard to correct mistakes that are in pen or marker. I am beyond proud of your children who have asked to take work home to get caught up. Bravo!
This week in class in French, the students will be starting to learn Halloween vocabulary and working on little projects centered around the big day. We have started our literacy centers in class and they are going great. This allows me to work with a small group of students on reading strategies while other students are in centers. So far all the groups that I have worked with are over the moon to start learning how to read in French. Some students have even started to volunteer to read to the whole class during our reading period. Its amazing to see how fast some of them are catching on. Please continue to practice at home, your hard work is paying off! We will also be starting our family trees this week, so please be sure to send in those family pictures. Please note we will be cutting them soo do not send in any that you don't want cut up. Please have them in ASAP. I would like to start Wednesday.
Science, the students are starting to learn about their 5 sense as well as the names for body parts in French. In order for your child to become aware of their 5 senses, you can beginning pointing out when they are using the senses in their daily activities. For example, when you are cooking supper, ask them what they think they are having based on what they smell? What do they taste....
In Math, we continue to learn how to represent numbers. We have been practicing associating words to numbers up to 20. I will send home those word bags in the next couple of weeks to practice at home. I will be testing your child in the next couple weeks on number recognition up to 20 out of sequence, oral pronunciation of numbers up to 20 as well as counting forwards and backwards from 1-20. Feel free to practice these skills at home.
In English, students continue to learn letter sounds in English. We have been focusing on finding the rhyming words in books. This week in class we will take a look at the beginning sounds of words as well as ending sounds. This is a perfect way to review sounds and the beginning of decoding words.
I will be randomly picking students this week to go over their English site words on their paint chips. Please be sure to review with your child.
This week in school we have a guest speaker chatting to us all the way from my home in PEI. John Connolly who is a good friend of mine and my husbands will be speaking to the children about his play that he has wrote, produced about Terry Fox. He tried to present the day of the Terry Fox run but we had technical difficulties. He is fabulous and is supper talented. I will attach a link to his website so you can read more on him if it interests you as well as one of his song. This is the song he sang as I walked down the isle.
http://johnconnolly.ca/
Thought Id give you a pick to go along with the song lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdH_fP4ZHic - Here you are- John ConnollyI will leave you with that! Have a great week everyone!
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Busy week!
Hi Folks,
We have a busy one, this week! So I will get all the important stuff out of the way first.
Alien In-line skating continues this week. Our class has skating twice this week. Monday October 5th, at 11h15 until noon. We have two volunteers already signed up for this time.Wednesday October 7th first thing at 8h45-9h30, we have all volunteers for that day as well. Thanks for all your help. Also I forgot to remind the students to keep their helmets at school. Please send them back in and if its ok we will keep them there until Thursday of this week.
Friendship builders club starts this week. Sessions will be held on Monday and Tuesday at lunch. Young Rembrants is Monday at 3pm. For those of you who missed this session, you may want to look into the next one. Its a great way to build confidence, help fine motor skills and to have students take a risk when putting pencil paper.
Wednesday, Holy Name Cares food bags are due. These will be collected and as a staff we are going to prepare the hampers for families in need.
Thursday, we have our Thanksgiving Liturgy at 2pm. You are all invited to join us.
We have no school on Friday due to a PD day and Monday because it is Thanksgiving. Reading packages for next week will be exchanged on Tuesday October 13.
Thank you to all who have contributed to the Gala Basket. I believe we had all our items and then some. I have sent home permission forms for you all to sign for Fred Penner on Friday. Please be sure to send them back this week. I found some on the floor soo if you haven't gotten one, please let me know. Scholastic Book orders are due on Wednesday October 7th. There is a new payment option online. Please note that if you are paying online you do so under my name.
Now to what's going on in class this week...
We have finished up patterning in Math and will be moving onto numbers 1-20. They will be practicing counting 1- 20 and from 20-1 in French. Students will also be asked to identify numbers in 10 frames up to 20 and their written form.
In Science, we will be finishing up our colors unit this week and will be moving onto learning about our 5 senses. The students will have a quiz on mixing colors this coming week. Feel free to review what two colors make what at home.
Social Studies this week, we continue to talk about being a part of a group. We will take a look at the families we belong too and the origins of our last names. Please send in with your child the origins of your last name by Tuesday. There was also a note sent home requesting any pictures, medals or video's that shows your child's involvement in a group. (I also found some sheets on the floor, so please let me know if you need one with the information)
In French, we have started our new theme and have begun learning about members of the family in French. I will be sending home a note later this week requesting, family photos and names to help with our family tree project. Please note that these pictures will be cut, so do not send any that you do not wish to have cut. We are only including mom, dad, siblings and grand-parents on the tree. We will also be reading "Le bricolage" which you can practice reading in the pink books in your childs reading package. Students have also been learning how to use a dictionary to help them in their writing. They had fun using the table of contents.
In Health, the students will be finishing up learning about proper hand washing. They have learned when they should wash their hands and also a little song they can sing as they do. Students will then move onto learning about proper teeth brushing.
I believe this is it for this week. Have a great long week end. Wishing you a very happy thanksgiving. I hope your table is filled with those you love and new memories.
Cheers,
Laurie Anne
PS. I have include a great game to play at home with letter sounds and numbers. I hope you give it a try:)
http://www.takatamuser.com/6-7-ans/takaabc-jeu-abecedaire.html (alphabet and first letter sounds)
http://www.takatamuser.com/maternelle/je-compte-de-1-a-5.html (Math- numbers 1-5)
We have a busy one, this week! So I will get all the important stuff out of the way first.
Alien In-line skating continues this week. Our class has skating twice this week. Monday October 5th, at 11h15 until noon. We have two volunteers already signed up for this time.Wednesday October 7th first thing at 8h45-9h30, we have all volunteers for that day as well. Thanks for all your help. Also I forgot to remind the students to keep their helmets at school. Please send them back in and if its ok we will keep them there until Thursday of this week.
Friendship builders club starts this week. Sessions will be held on Monday and Tuesday at lunch. Young Rembrants is Monday at 3pm. For those of you who missed this session, you may want to look into the next one. Its a great way to build confidence, help fine motor skills and to have students take a risk when putting pencil paper.
Wednesday, Holy Name Cares food bags are due. These will be collected and as a staff we are going to prepare the hampers for families in need.
Thursday, we have our Thanksgiving Liturgy at 2pm. You are all invited to join us.
We have no school on Friday due to a PD day and Monday because it is Thanksgiving. Reading packages for next week will be exchanged on Tuesday October 13.
Thank you to all who have contributed to the Gala Basket. I believe we had all our items and then some. I have sent home permission forms for you all to sign for Fred Penner on Friday. Please be sure to send them back this week. I found some on the floor soo if you haven't gotten one, please let me know. Scholastic Book orders are due on Wednesday October 7th. There is a new payment option online. Please note that if you are paying online you do so under my name.
Now to what's going on in class this week...
We have finished up patterning in Math and will be moving onto numbers 1-20. They will be practicing counting 1- 20 and from 20-1 in French. Students will also be asked to identify numbers in 10 frames up to 20 and their written form.
In Science, we will be finishing up our colors unit this week and will be moving onto learning about our 5 senses. The students will have a quiz on mixing colors this coming week. Feel free to review what two colors make what at home.
Social Studies this week, we continue to talk about being a part of a group. We will take a look at the families we belong too and the origins of our last names. Please send in with your child the origins of your last name by Tuesday. There was also a note sent home requesting any pictures, medals or video's that shows your child's involvement in a group. (I also found some sheets on the floor, so please let me know if you need one with the information)
In French, we have started our new theme and have begun learning about members of the family in French. I will be sending home a note later this week requesting, family photos and names to help with our family tree project. Please note that these pictures will be cut, so do not send any that you do not wish to have cut. We are only including mom, dad, siblings and grand-parents on the tree. We will also be reading "Le bricolage" which you can practice reading in the pink books in your childs reading package. Students have also been learning how to use a dictionary to help them in their writing. They had fun using the table of contents.
In Health, the students will be finishing up learning about proper hand washing. They have learned when they should wash their hands and also a little song they can sing as they do. Students will then move onto learning about proper teeth brushing.
I believe this is it for this week. Have a great long week end. Wishing you a very happy thanksgiving. I hope your table is filled with those you love and new memories.
Cheers,
Laurie Anne
PS. I have include a great game to play at home with letter sounds and numbers. I hope you give it a try:)
http://www.takatamuser.com/6-7-ans/takaabc-jeu-abecedaire.html (alphabet and first letter sounds)
http://www.takatamuser.com/maternelle/je-compte-de-1-a-5.html (Math- numbers 1-5)
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