Busy Week.

Wishing you all a happy week ahead. I hope you all had a chance to enjoy the nice weather this week end and are rested for a new week ahead. We have a busy week at Holy Name this week. Opening Mass is on Thursday September 21st. Leaving the school around 9:30 for 10 am Mass. We are still in need of 3 volunteers to walk with us to and from church. Anyone up for the challenge?? The evening of September 21st we will have our first round of Parent meet and greets. This is an opportunity for you to tell me more about your child, whether it be concerns, goals or anything in between. The meetings will continue all day Friday September 22. Please remember to sign up using parent conference manager. This is available on the school website. I also want to remind you that Monday September 25th is Parent Reading information night. It starts at 7pm in the  gym. You are asked to bring a post dated check dated June 18, 2018 as a deposit for all reading materials. Checks are made payable to Holy Name School. I have already had some parents send them in ahead of time. You are welcome to do so. The line to drop them off at the event can sometimes be long.  There is a parent council meeting on Tuesday September 19th starting at 6:30. The first one maybe worth while if you have any questions in regards to staffing, enrollment, see the agenda that was sent out Friday for more details.

This week in class your child will continue to learn a new set of French letter sounds as well as review previous ones. You will find a new set of game cards in their agenda bag. The Jolly phonics duo-tang and game pieces can stay home and do not need to be sent in daily. I do have a favor to ask of all of you....to help me save time on the week ends would it be possible for you to move the binder clip to the new week?! I would be very thankful for the help.

In French, we are having fun using puppets to practice our French sentence structures. The students love to use them. The puppets are only allowed to speak French...I am sure they sneak in some English...but have been pretty good at practicing the sentences. This week we will start our French journals and work on coping simple sentences from the board. We have started using our songs books and are highlighting vowel sounds and circling French phonemes. My plan is to send the song books home so they can share what they have learned with you.

In Math, Students are learning about patterns. Patterns structures we looked at so far are AB, ABC, AAB. We have been trying to create one pattern with many different elements, whether it be size, color, shape. You may hear your child refer to patterns as les regularites. We are also learning about French numbers, how to print these numerals correctly as well as associating objects to these numbers.

In Science, we have started to learn about colors. Our focus this week will be on primary colors. Students must be able to read color names. They usually mix up bleu, blanc, brun. I encourage them to allow their eyes to look at every letter rather than the beginning. You can practice this a home by making flash cards. They also confuse vert and violet.

In Social Studies, we have started to chat about being a member of a group or community. We have talked about rules or expectations that usually follow when we are a member of such group or community.

We will be starting Health this week. Students  will be learning about the importance of proper hand washing and the lovely world of germs.

In English, we continue to learn about letter sounds and the difference between vowels and consonants. Our focus this week will be on beginning sounds of words. I have attached below two links that we use in class that you may find helpful to practice on at home.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei0iFs5uF6w  _Jolly Phonics song to build on sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMQHd1UBkeI - ASL-Alphabet

Thank you for your scholastic orders. I have placed them and received an email that they are already shipped. Please remember to send in your childs permission form for the Terry Fox run if you have not done so. We will also need volunteers for that afternoon to join us on the community walk. Everyone is welcome to join us as well.

I believe that is all for this week.
Laurie Anne