Hi folks,
We have started are new theme of fruits and vegetables. Yesterday the students had a chance to try pomegranates. To my surprised they all pretty much loved them and were asking for more!!. Today we are trying plums. We were also suppose to try peaches but I was told they could not find any. If this happens feel free to substitute it with another fruit or vegetable. Just make sure though that it is not already on the list. Sobeys have a great section with different exotic fruits, if you ever get stuck.
We are also keeping a tally of who has fruits and vegetables in their lunches. We will continue to do this for the whole month of November and will be used as a math lesson later on.
We are still working on numbers 1-20. We had a chance to estimate how many pumpkin seeds were in the pumpkin last week and had the chance to count to 200. The students loved pulling out the insides of the pumpkin.
We only have 2 days of school next week (Nov 7,8), due to parent teacher interviews and a PD day. I hope that all the interview times are good for everyone. If not please let me know and I can work something out. We will not be covering any new words and there will be no home work sent home. All I ask is that you go over the sight words with your child that we have already covered and practice counting and matching the words to the numbers. I will also send the song books home to practice.
The last week of November we will be starting our penny drive for the CBC Turkey Drive. It will run up until the last week before Christmas holidays. Last year I did this with my class and had great success. As a class we were able to buy 38 turkeys for island family's with the 530.00$ raised through the penny drive and the candy cane sale at the Christmas concert. My goal last year was to buy one turkey, but my students told me that was not a good goal. I asked why and they informed me that there is more than one family in need of a turkey on Christmas. I was shocked by that response and their compassion for others. I understand that we might not get 38 turkeys this year, that's not what matters. What matters is that we learn how to give back to those in need even if its just one turkey, we are doing something. So that being said start saving those pennies and pass the word out that we are collecting.
That's all for now if you have any questions feel free to drop me a line. I hope that you all have a great weekend. See you next week.
Laurie Anne
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Halloween is around the corner!!
Hi folks,
I hope that you all had a great weekend. We had a couple of great speakers at our convention if you want to check them out there names were Martin LaTulipe and Dr.Steven Van Zoost.
We are on our last week of October, I can not believe how fast this month is flying by!! We will be wrapping up our family and fall theme and moving onto En pleine forme avec mes amis les animaux. Students will be learning about domestic animals as well as fruits and vegetables. I will be sending home a sheet where I have assigned your child a fruit and vegetable to bring into class for a certain day. They are only required to do this for their assigned day. Please be sure to send enough in for 14 students and have the fruit/veggies cut and ready to pass out. Students are required to try everything that is brought in to be 100% sure they do not like. After we sample the goodies the students will then write in a booklet whether they liked the fruit or vegetable. At the end of the month I will send the book home for you to look over. You might be surprised on what your child actually likes. I did this last year and it was a huge success. The parents were very surprised that their child actually like some of the fruit/veggies, they said it helped out with packing lunches. I hope that you will have this success as well!! Please let me know if your child has any sensitivity or allergies to certain fruits/veggies or if you are unable to participate.
I will also be having a guest speaker coming in from the Healthy Food Alliance to chat about healthy food choices and how they help you grow.
The students have won their 100 points!! We have decided to have a Halloween party on Monday, watch a Halloween movie and have some treats. If you are interested in sending in a treat with your child please feel free to do so. Just leave me a note in the agenda if you can or not.
Your child can wear their costume to school on Monday, however they must come with their make up already on as well as their costume. They can change out if it before going outside for recess. It is the schools policy to not permit any swords,guns, knives or anything that can be viewed as a weapon. Masks are also not allowed. We will be having Halloween centers in the afternoon with the whole school. The pumpkin patrol will be visiting the school on Friday afternoon to go over safety tips with your child.
I would like to thank Nicole Johnston (Laurens mom) and Brenda Meisner (Ashlyn's mom) for coming into class and doing a craft and showing the students how to make apple crisp!! Also thanks to you all who came out for our adventure to Arlington Farms, and to the rain that stayed away!
Have a great week everyone and if you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me!
Laurie Anne :)
I hope that you all had a great weekend. We had a couple of great speakers at our convention if you want to check them out there names were Martin LaTulipe and Dr.Steven Van Zoost.
We are on our last week of October, I can not believe how fast this month is flying by!! We will be wrapping up our family and fall theme and moving onto En pleine forme avec mes amis les animaux. Students will be learning about domestic animals as well as fruits and vegetables. I will be sending home a sheet where I have assigned your child a fruit and vegetable to bring into class for a certain day. They are only required to do this for their assigned day. Please be sure to send enough in for 14 students and have the fruit/veggies cut and ready to pass out. Students are required to try everything that is brought in to be 100% sure they do not like. After we sample the goodies the students will then write in a booklet whether they liked the fruit or vegetable. At the end of the month I will send the book home for you to look over. You might be surprised on what your child actually likes. I did this last year and it was a huge success. The parents were very surprised that their child actually like some of the fruit/veggies, they said it helped out with packing lunches. I hope that you will have this success as well!! Please let me know if your child has any sensitivity or allergies to certain fruits/veggies or if you are unable to participate.
I will also be having a guest speaker coming in from the Healthy Food Alliance to chat about healthy food choices and how they help you grow.
The students have won their 100 points!! We have decided to have a Halloween party on Monday, watch a Halloween movie and have some treats. If you are interested in sending in a treat with your child please feel free to do so. Just leave me a note in the agenda if you can or not.
Your child can wear their costume to school on Monday, however they must come with their make up already on as well as their costume. They can change out if it before going outside for recess. It is the schools policy to not permit any swords,guns, knives or anything that can be viewed as a weapon. Masks are also not allowed. We will be having Halloween centers in the afternoon with the whole school. The pumpkin patrol will be visiting the school on Friday afternoon to go over safety tips with your child.
I would like to thank Nicole Johnston (Laurens mom) and Brenda Meisner (Ashlyn's mom) for coming into class and doing a craft and showing the students how to make apple crisp!! Also thanks to you all who came out for our adventure to Arlington Farms, and to the rain that stayed away!
Have a great week everyone and if you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me!
Laurie Anne :)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Short week coming up.
I folks I hope that everyone is having a great week end. I just wanted to remind you all that this is a short week we only have school Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The reason for this is because the annual teachers conference in Charlottetown.
We will be going to the apple orchard tomorrow. We are leaving the school at 11:30, please be sure to dress your child appropriately. If you are coming with us on this little adventure please meet us at the orchard for 11:50.
Seeing that it is a short week, we will not be having homework. You can still go over the alphabet, numbers 1-20 and your child's sight words as practice. It is very important that your child learn these sight words, please practice these at home.
I also sent home a Highlights form. I did not get around to writing you a note explaining it. Highlights offer subscriptions if you are interested in them. Do not feel obligated to order this magazine. I sent it home because even if you check no and sign the form Highlights will send our class something as a thank you.
I will be putting in our October book order on Monday. If you have not done so you can send them in tomorrow.
On Wednesday we have a parent coming in to do a fall craft with the students! Also Wednesday will be our PJ day that the students won a couple of weeks ago. Your child will be allowed to wear their PJ's to school.
Also if any of you are interested in meeting me to go over your child's progress so far before report cards please let me know and we can arrange a time to meet after school.
Have a great Sunday and chat soon
Laurie Anne :)
We will be going to the apple orchard tomorrow. We are leaving the school at 11:30, please be sure to dress your child appropriately. If you are coming with us on this little adventure please meet us at the orchard for 11:50.
Seeing that it is a short week, we will not be having homework. You can still go over the alphabet, numbers 1-20 and your child's sight words as practice. It is very important that your child learn these sight words, please practice these at home.
I also sent home a Highlights form. I did not get around to writing you a note explaining it. Highlights offer subscriptions if you are interested in them. Do not feel obligated to order this magazine. I sent it home because even if you check no and sign the form Highlights will send our class something as a thank you.
I will be putting in our October book order on Monday. If you have not done so you can send them in tomorrow.
On Wednesday we have a parent coming in to do a fall craft with the students! Also Wednesday will be our PJ day that the students won a couple of weeks ago. Your child will be allowed to wear their PJ's to school.
Also if any of you are interested in meeting me to go over your child's progress so far before report cards please let me know and we can arrange a time to meet after school.
Have a great Sunday and chat soon
Laurie Anne :)
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Color you food Campaign
Hi folks,
Well Im not off to the best of starts of keeping on the blog. Sorry about that!
This week is color your lunch, I signed the class up for this campaign through the healthy eating alliance. It allows our class to have a chance to learn about healthy snacks, goes great with our colors theme and allows us to win prizes as well. I hope that you all can participate. Each day we go over the color make a list of who has that color in their lunches and chat about what is it a fruit or a vegetable.
We have a points system in class, where the students get a chance to win points. They receive these points by answering questions, finding the weekly sight words in the morning message and so on. They also lose points if they are not listening, not on task.... Once the class gets to 50 they are rewarded with a little something. In class we brain stormed several ideas then had a vote on what we were going to use our first 50 points for. They have decided a PJ party, where they will wear their PJs to school. Iam happy to say that they got their first 50 points and we will be having a PJ party, date yet to be decided. Ill put it in the agenda.
We have finished patterns and now are working numbers 1-20. Students are learning the French words for each number written and spoken. We continue to count to 50 each day. I encourage you to practice at home. You can make flash cards and have them out of sequence. This is a challenge for them, but great practice.Later on in the week Ill be sending home numbers with words and the students must match them up. You can play memorie, but just start with numbers 1-10 and introduce more as you go.
I had a great idea from a parent that I would like to share with all of you. This parent makes flash cards with the weekly sight words. Once her child is able to recognize the word she rewards them with a sticker.On the flas card. Its great motivation and makes homework a little more interesting. Bravo!!
We did reschedule our field trip to the 17th of October. Hopefully the sun will be out then like it is today. If you still want to volunteer please let me know.I would also like to try and have a parent come in once a month to do a craft with the students. If you are interested in this please let me know. I will send home a sign up sheet later on. Do not worry if you are not crafty anything is better than nothing and they will love having you here.
I have started their reading bags in class this week. Students are given 3 books in their blue bag. When we have silent reading time they will practise these books over and over again. I chose books that have their sight words in them and at their level. We will see how it goes!
Thank you to all of you who participated in NORCARD!
Just a reminder that we have no school on Monday Oct 10th.
That's all for now!
Have a great week!
Well Im not off to the best of starts of keeping on the blog. Sorry about that!
This week is color your lunch, I signed the class up for this campaign through the healthy eating alliance. It allows our class to have a chance to learn about healthy snacks, goes great with our colors theme and allows us to win prizes as well. I hope that you all can participate. Each day we go over the color make a list of who has that color in their lunches and chat about what is it a fruit or a vegetable.
We have a points system in class, where the students get a chance to win points. They receive these points by answering questions, finding the weekly sight words in the morning message and so on. They also lose points if they are not listening, not on task.... Once the class gets to 50 they are rewarded with a little something. In class we brain stormed several ideas then had a vote on what we were going to use our first 50 points for. They have decided a PJ party, where they will wear their PJs to school. Iam happy to say that they got their first 50 points and we will be having a PJ party, date yet to be decided. Ill put it in the agenda.
We have finished patterns and now are working numbers 1-20. Students are learning the French words for each number written and spoken. We continue to count to 50 each day. I encourage you to practice at home. You can make flash cards and have them out of sequence. This is a challenge for them, but great practice.Later on in the week Ill be sending home numbers with words and the students must match them up. You can play memorie, but just start with numbers 1-10 and introduce more as you go.
I had a great idea from a parent that I would like to share with all of you. This parent makes flash cards with the weekly sight words. Once her child is able to recognize the word she rewards them with a sticker.On the flas card. Its great motivation and makes homework a little more interesting. Bravo!!
We did reschedule our field trip to the 17th of October. Hopefully the sun will be out then like it is today. If you still want to volunteer please let me know.I would also like to try and have a parent come in once a month to do a craft with the students. If you are interested in this please let me know. I will send home a sign up sheet later on. Do not worry if you are not crafty anything is better than nothing and they will love having you here.
I have started their reading bags in class this week. Students are given 3 books in their blue bag. When we have silent reading time they will practise these books over and over again. I chose books that have their sight words in them and at their level. We will see how it goes!
Thank you to all of you who participated in NORCARD!
Just a reminder that we have no school on Monday Oct 10th.
That's all for now!
Have a great week!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Picnic Tonight!!
HI everyone I can believe we are almost done of another week of school. Just a reminder that tonight is the home and school picnic. It starts at 4 and will run until 6:30. I will be there from 4:30 -5:00 at a games booth so please stop by and say hello. I hope that the sun stays out for it! Fingers crossed.
We are continuing to work on our alphabet and the names/sounds of each letter. We are writing in our journals and I must say that there printing has improved since the last time! Bravo mes amis.
We have also been talking about how to write a sentence (capital at the beginning, period at the end and lower case letters all in between)
In math we have finished patterns and will be starting numbers 1-20 today. Students will learn the names of the numbers, how to write them out and the amount of each number. I will be sending home dot cards with numbers 1-13 on them. Students are required to recognized these dots automatically and respond with the appropriate amount. Please be sure to practice these at home when they are sent out.
We have also been counting 1-50 and they are doing great!
I also wanted to let you know that the kids seem to be loving the Borrowed kitchen meals!
A reminder that scholastics are due on the 27th of September (next week)
Have a great day and hope to see you tonight!
Mme Laurie Anne
We are continuing to work on our alphabet and the names/sounds of each letter. We are writing in our journals and I must say that there printing has improved since the last time! Bravo mes amis.
We have also been talking about how to write a sentence (capital at the beginning, period at the end and lower case letters all in between)
In math we have finished patterns and will be starting numbers 1-20 today. Students will learn the names of the numbers, how to write them out and the amount of each number. I will be sending home dot cards with numbers 1-13 on them. Students are required to recognized these dots automatically and respond with the appropriate amount. Please be sure to practice these at home when they are sent out.
We have also been counting 1-50 and they are doing great!
I also wanted to let you know that the kids seem to be loving the Borrowed kitchen meals!
A reminder that scholastics are due on the 27th of September (next week)
Have a great day and hope to see you tonight!
Mme Laurie Anne
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Cheers to a second week!
Well we had a great first week. This week we are continuing to work on our behavior and reviewing our class rules. The students have come up with some great rules ( respect each other and the classroom, clean up after yourself, keep the classroom clean, don't speak when others are speaking, respect everyone...)
We have started our math unit which is patterns. Students are learning about what/ how to make a pattern, repetition and how to have several different attributes to one pattern. We are also counting up to 10 and learning the written words for each number. We have started our number printing book as well. I encourage you to count with your child at home as high as they can count and practice writing the numbers out.
We are also going over the different sounds letters make in the alphabet as well as the name of those letters. Please keep in mind that ( i ) in french sounds like E in English and the (e) in french is euh. I will send home a sheet in their homework duo tang with all this information along with frequent words, numbers 1-100, and some suggestions on what you can do at home with your child. As we do each sound we do a printing sheet to practice our upper and lower case letters. If you have the chance to work on their printing skills at home they would greatly benefit from it. You can do the alphabet in upper and lower case letters.
I will be sending home scholastics order forms this week. If this is new to you it is a booklet that you can order books from. I send home all selections just in case you have a younger or older child at home that might want to order from it as well. There is both English and french selections. Please do not feel obligated to order from it. They do have monthly promotions that sometimes benefits our class. Last year we got 2 free books for each child and coupons to buy books for our class. I will send scholastics out at the beginning of every month and have them due back in by the middle. It would be great if you could send a check in rather than money ( I will except money though if you don't have cheques)
We are hoping to plan a fall field trip for October sometime. If you are interested in volunteering please let me know. Once I know more I will pass the information along. Iam also open to suggestions.
I think that's all for now. I hope to see you all next week at the open house. Until then have a great rest of the week and a fabulous week end.
Here's hoping for sunshine!!
:)
Laurie Anne
We have started our math unit which is patterns. Students are learning about what/ how to make a pattern, repetition and how to have several different attributes to one pattern. We are also counting up to 10 and learning the written words for each number. We have started our number printing book as well. I encourage you to count with your child at home as high as they can count and practice writing the numbers out.
We are also going over the different sounds letters make in the alphabet as well as the name of those letters. Please keep in mind that ( i ) in french sounds like E in English and the (e) in french is euh. I will send home a sheet in their homework duo tang with all this information along with frequent words, numbers 1-100, and some suggestions on what you can do at home with your child. As we do each sound we do a printing sheet to practice our upper and lower case letters. If you have the chance to work on their printing skills at home they would greatly benefit from it. You can do the alphabet in upper and lower case letters.
I will be sending home scholastics order forms this week. If this is new to you it is a booklet that you can order books from. I send home all selections just in case you have a younger or older child at home that might want to order from it as well. There is both English and french selections. Please do not feel obligated to order from it. They do have monthly promotions that sometimes benefits our class. Last year we got 2 free books for each child and coupons to buy books for our class. I will send scholastics out at the beginning of every month and have them due back in by the middle. It would be great if you could send a check in rather than money ( I will except money though if you don't have cheques)
We are hoping to plan a fall field trip for October sometime. If you are interested in volunteering please let me know. Once I know more I will pass the information along. Iam also open to suggestions.
I think that's all for now. I hope to see you all next week at the open house. Until then have a great rest of the week and a fabulous week end.
Here's hoping for sunshine!!
:)
Laurie Anne
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Back to school!!!
Well its hard to believe that summer has come and now we are back to school. I hope that everyone had a great summer. Our first day was good, all the students got along great. I sent home a couple of notes explaining the agendas as well as class rules. They can be found in the front pocket of the agenda. Please fill out the information sheets and send them back in.
I will be sending homework home next week with the students so be sure to look for that in their homework bags. Milk orders will be sent home sometime this week, which will start the following week. If you have not already done so please be sure to pay your $35.00 school supply fee at the office.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me at anytime. Have a great rest of the week!!
Laurie Anne
I will be sending homework home next week with the students so be sure to look for that in their homework bags. Milk orders will be sent home sometime this week, which will start the following week. If you have not already done so please be sure to pay your $35.00 school supply fee at the office.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me at anytime. Have a great rest of the week!!
Laurie Anne
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