Hi everyone,
Sorry for the overdue post! This week is full of excitement at school seeing that carnival is starting on Wednesday. Opening ceremonies start at 9am with the crowning of the King and Queen. This is awarded to the students who speaking the most French in class. Your child can be nominated by friends in their class by simply speaking French as much as possible.
It works out great because we have just started our French speaking incentive chart in class today. Students receive a sticker to put on their chart every time they are caught speaking French with a friend or by making an effort to speak French with Madame and other teachers. After they fill their chart they get a prize from the prize box and start all over again. They are super excited and wow already they are making an effort and encouraging each other.
Through out the week students will be participating in activities related to carnival. Thursday they get to sample "le tire d'erable" which is always yummy....and a bit messy lol. On Friday we will have our outdoor activities for the whole day. Please dress your child for the weather.
With a new month comes another new adventure in learning for our students. The month February they are going to be learning about friendships, all about the rooms in the house and the items that can be found. We are also going to take a closer look at syllables, singular and plural words. This week we are trying to finish up a few last items on clothing. The students will have a quiz to associate items of clothing to their proper name and be required to write a sentence using an article of clothing. To receive bonus points they can add colors to their sentences.
Tomorrow we will celebrate groundhogs day and hope for an early spring! There French sound this week is hard and soft "Gg" the same as English.
In Math, we continue to learn about addition and have started to learn more about subtraction. The students do need to work on identifying numbers higher than 50 in French. Please practice at home if you have a few minutes. We have also started to count by 5's up to 100. They are starting to get the hang of it but more practice is needed.
Here is a video you can use to help the students practice counting by 10's and 5's in French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaXupyh96w (by 10's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oozeIkCHcI (by 5's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeNgPJc5Ew (Not in love with this video but its what the students need to know how to do by the end of grade 1)
In Social studies, we have started one of my favorite units! The students will be learning the differences between country living (Rurale/campagne) and city living (Urbaine/ville). We have a great time chatting about the differences and similarities. We will talk about what we hear, see, do in each.
We have finished up our science unit on our 5 sens and have one more quiz left before we start our new unit on building things. This unit students will experiment with different building materials and will use their imaginations to come up with new designs.
This is a heads up on next months theme for all of you. We will learn about method sof transportation and traditions. Every year I ask my parents to ask their friends and family from around the world to send a post card to the class. On the post card they can include traditions, food, languages spoken, common methods of travel or anything neat. Once we get the post cards we read them,look the area up on the map, chat about how we could get there from Calgary and so on. So please help us this year by recruiting your friends and family! They can send their post cards to the following address:
La classe de Mme Laurie Anne
Holy Name school
3011 35 street, SW
Calgary, Alberta
T3E 2Y7
Here is a class list of all the students name in my class just in case you need them for you valentines next weeks valentines. We will celebrate Valentine's on Tuesday due to Ash Wednesday. Tuesday next week is also Shrove Tuesday.
Boys Girls
Brio Thomas Evalina Sofia
Mirek Mitchell Claire Jessica
Toby Zenon Hannah Anna
William Alex Gianna Colette
Declan Dallan Mallory Ailee
Percy Matthew Amelia
I am looking for 3 volunteers for Feb 24th at 1pm. Teachers pet is coming in to do an in class field trip with the students. If you are available and interested please let me know.
I think that is it for the week.....
Laurie Anne
If you have time and want to check out some games to play at home with your child check out the links below.
Carnaval-
https://quizlet.com/118271478/carnaval-flash-cards/
Vetements-
https://quizlet.com/116820623/les-vetements-flash-cards/
Let me know if they work.
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