Bonjour tout le monde,
This week is a short one. Students do not have school on Friday. All teachers have a professional development day. We also have a lot going on at school this week. Wednesday at 10 am is the New Year liturgy, all is welcomed to join. Tuesday we have Lisa Bowes coming in to speak with students about her children's books she has been writing. She use to be a sports broadcaster and now has turned her focus to writing. Please check agenda's for note that went home yesterday in regards to pink shirt day. I will also be sending home this weeks your child's sounds quiz to review and sign and send back.
We are now exploring numbers 1-100 in Math. Students are learning to count from 1-100 and also be counting by 5 and 10. Once we have a good grasp on these two concepts we will introduce counting by 2's. Students are also required to recognize numbers out of order up to 100. Please practice at home, there is a 100 frame in their yellow reading duo-tang.
Here is a link to a website to practice filling in 100 frames:
http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/number-frames/
We are going to wrap up the 5 senses in Science with taste which will be coming in the next couple of weeks. We will be looking at the 4 seasons next.
In English, students will be learning about different sound blends and words families. Each week they will learn a new blend and word family. We are also going to start working on our English writing skills. Please continue to review sight words with your child. we have already started evaluations for second terms report card.
In French, we continue to learn about clothing and are taking a closer look at masculine and feminine words. Please review weekly sight words seeing that they will have an evaluation in the next week on those covered so far. Students will also be required to read a small text in French and answer questions, practicing their French reading at home will help.
In Social Studies, students are learning about their rights and responsibilities. We will take a look at schools from around the world, compare them to our own and think of ways to be more responsible in our community and at school.
We are coming close to the 100day of school. I am wondering if any parents would like to volunteer to guide a center/activity on that day. Last year parents came in and made 100 day monsters with 100 objects. If you are interested please let me know. I will also count the days and get back to you to let you know what day it will be exactly.
I am also looking for some great gluers....I have games made that need to be glued to card stock, if you are interested in helping out please let me know and I will send it home with your child.
Have a great week everyone.
Laurie Anne
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Cheers to 2017!
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas surrounded by family and friends. The island time was great. I got to visit my friends, hang out with my dad, visit Mikes family and eat my dads cooking. YUM, nothing beats it. I am happy to be back though...not happy to be back to the cold and snow!
Thank you all for the lovely gifts that you and your child gave me for Christmas. I truly appreciate all of them.
We had a huge success this year with Turkeys! We were able to purchase 170 turkeys, plus one that was donated by a family in our class to make it a grand total of 171 Turkeys. We also donated 23 Christmas stockings which were all stuffed, along with the remaining goodies that did not make it into a stocking. We also purchases 9 books of transit passes. Thank you for your support, it means a lot to the kids as well as myself! Because of your support and contribution we had a very successful year!
Here are a few pictures from the days leading up to Turkey delivery day.
We have a new student who joined us on Monday. We are happy to welcome Keen to our awesome class. Our class is now up to 23. If you see him our his family be sure to say hello!
Its the month of January and the students are going to learn all about different articles of clothing. We will tie this in with different seasons and months of the year. They are also going to learn a little bit about masculine/feminine, singular, pluralwords. They should be able to recognize masculine and feminine words and use them accordingly when writing their simple sentences. We will work more on writing sentences with correct punctuation (upper case letters, proper spacing and periods at the end of each sentence) Through out the month of January we will also learn about different winter sports and start to talk about Québec's Winter carnival near the end of the month. Please review sounds of the week with your child at home. So far in class we have covered the following:
oi (oiseau) ou ( loup) on ( cochon) au (auto) eau ( bateau) in ( lapin) eu ( jeu) ui (pluie)
ph- (photo) un (brun) qu (qui) ch- (chien) an ( maman) en ( enfant) am (lampe) em (temps)
Here are some of the vocabulary your child will be learning.
In class, we will start guided reading on a more regular basis. During this time I will work with small groups of students to work on reading strategies. The other students will be in literacy centers, which will have a focus on topics already cover or are presently learning. We have also started in class our "Je parle en francais" chart. Each student has one on their desk and are encouraged to speak French with Madame or their peers. When they attempt to speak French or are heard chatting in French they will get a sticker for their chart. Once the chart is full, which has 14 squares, they can cash in their stickers for a prize. They will take the stickers off and start again. Since starting this on Monday, there are two students who are 1 sticker away from winning. Everyone is very excited.
In Math, we continue to work on numbers 0-20. We have started to count to 50 in French and are working on skip counting by 5 and 10. You can practice at home the concepts plus (more), moins (less) autant que (same) egal a (equals to). PLease also be sure to practice counting in French by 5's and 10's as well as 0-50 or higher if possible.
In English, we have been reviewing vowel sounds long and short. We reviewed all consonants and have been learning about bossy e or magic e. For those of you who don't know about bossy e, it makes the vowels say its name in words. (tap-tape, kit-kite, cut-cute) We will also be looking at beginning, middle and ending sounds in words.
We have library on Thursday, please send books back. Special lunch is on Wednesday. Next week in Gym students will be having hip hop dance. They always love this. Please return the pink A books in your childs reading package for Monday to be switched out with a new one. You will also get a tic tac toe game board in the packages. This is a fun way to practice sight words or vocab found in books or ones that we are learning in class. With a dry erase you write words in all the spaces and play as you normal would play tic tac toe, but you must read the word correctly to be able to put your X or O.
Thank you all for the lovely gifts that you and your child gave me for Christmas. I truly appreciate all of them.
We had a huge success this year with Turkeys! We were able to purchase 170 turkeys, plus one that was donated by a family in our class to make it a grand total of 171 Turkeys. We also donated 23 Christmas stockings which were all stuffed, along with the remaining goodies that did not make it into a stocking. We also purchases 9 books of transit passes. Thank you for your support, it means a lot to the kids as well as myself! Because of your support and contribution we had a very successful year!
Here are a few pictures from the days leading up to Turkey delivery day.
Bravo!!!
We have a new student who joined us on Monday. We are happy to welcome Keen to our awesome class. Our class is now up to 23. If you see him our his family be sure to say hello!
Its the month of January and the students are going to learn all about different articles of clothing. We will tie this in with different seasons and months of the year. They are also going to learn a little bit about masculine/feminine, singular, pluralwords. They should be able to recognize masculine and feminine words and use them accordingly when writing their simple sentences. We will work more on writing sentences with correct punctuation (upper case letters, proper spacing and periods at the end of each sentence) Through out the month of January we will also learn about different winter sports and start to talk about Québec's Winter carnival near the end of the month. Please review sounds of the week with your child at home. So far in class we have covered the following:
oi (oiseau) ou ( loup) on ( cochon) au (auto) eau ( bateau) in ( lapin) eu ( jeu) ui (pluie)
ph- (photo) un (brun) qu (qui) ch- (chien) an ( maman) en ( enfant) am (lampe) em (temps)
Here are some of the vocabulary your child will be learning.
Please also review the following body parts with your child. They will be required to take a short quiz in the following weeks.
In class, we will start guided reading on a more regular basis. During this time I will work with small groups of students to work on reading strategies. The other students will be in literacy centers, which will have a focus on topics already cover or are presently learning. We have also started in class our "Je parle en francais" chart. Each student has one on their desk and are encouraged to speak French with Madame or their peers. When they attempt to speak French or are heard chatting in French they will get a sticker for their chart. Once the chart is full, which has 14 squares, they can cash in their stickers for a prize. They will take the stickers off and start again. Since starting this on Monday, there are two students who are 1 sticker away from winning. Everyone is very excited.
In Math, we continue to work on numbers 0-20. We have started to count to 50 in French and are working on skip counting by 5 and 10. You can practice at home the concepts plus (more), moins (less) autant que (same) egal a (equals to). PLease also be sure to practice counting in French by 5's and 10's as well as 0-50 or higher if possible.
In English, we have been reviewing vowel sounds long and short. We reviewed all consonants and have been learning about bossy e or magic e. For those of you who don't know about bossy e, it makes the vowels say its name in words. (tap-tape, kit-kite, cut-cute) We will also be looking at beginning, middle and ending sounds in words.
We have library on Thursday, please send books back. Special lunch is on Wednesday. Next week in Gym students will be having hip hop dance. They always love this. Please return the pink A books in your childs reading package for Monday to be switched out with a new one. You will also get a tic tac toe game board in the packages. This is a fun way to practice sight words or vocab found in books or ones that we are learning in class. With a dry erase you write words in all the spaces and play as you normal would play tic tac toe, but you must read the word correctly to be able to put your X or O.
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