Hello everyone,
I hope you are all doing well. Sorry for the long overdue post. This month in grade one we have been learning about farm animals, their homes, the sounds they make and what they eat. Students will be responsible for researching their favorite farm animal and putting the information into a book. They are to pick an animal, find out where it lives, what it eats and state what they like about that animal. They will share it with the class. We have also started to write our own stories in class and the students are very excited about this. Some have already finished their first story and are working on their second. My hope is to have a meet the author day in June, where the students can show you their books. We will have to see how theses next couple of weeks go. I hope that you are all still reading in French at home with your child. This is the time where you should see it become more easy for them to read and that they are starting to read with fluidity and expression. If you notice they are still a little choppy and that the flow is not all that great, you can help that along by reading daily a loud.
In math, we finished measurement and now will put all our focus into addition and subtraction up to 20. You can help them along at home by making flash cards or asking them math questions.
In health, we are finishing up the food groups and will start to look safety. We will also be doing Kids in the know in the next couple of weeks so look for the permission form in your child's agenda.
In social studies, the students loved learning about the differences between country and city living. We will switch our focus in the next couple of weeks towards learning about Canada, the provinces and so on.
I have to say a big thank you to Anna and Shae for having their family come into class the other day and play guitar and sing songs. The kids loved it and so did I !!
That's all I can think of at the moment. I hope to run into some of you tonight at Spring Fling! Have a great rest of the week!
Laurie Anne
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Hello March!
March is upon us and flying by already. I hope the report cards found you all. If you have any questions regarding them please contact me to discuss.
This month students will be learning about ways to get around. They will be learning about transportation and how not all places have the same types of transportation as we do. We will also be focusing on Rhyming words, punctuation and reading with expression.
In social studies students continue to learn about urban and rural areas (urbaine-ville, rurales-campagne) We will look at the different characteristics that make up city life and country life.
In health, students are looking at the Canadian food guide and learning about portion sizes and what is recommended for them at this age. We will also review fruits and vegetables.
In math, we will be starting our unit on measuring. We will also continue to count to 100, by 2,5 and 10.
Religion class students are learning more about Lent.
I am going to send home a note this week sometime explaining this months project. Students are required to invent their own means of transportation. they can do so with any thing they find around the house. In the past I have had students make their projects out of fruits and vegetables, pop bottles, card board boxes and so on. Please be as creative as possible. It can be a new invention all together or the students take on an old one. We will present them to the class. Students will be evaluated on their use of French when presenting so feel free to practice at home.
We have our last class of in line skating tomorrow. Bricks for kids is also starting to finish up.
I hope to see you all Thursday and Friday at parent teacher. This time around it is student lead so make sure to bring them with you. They will show you what they have learned.
That's all for now.
Laurie Anne
This month students will be learning about ways to get around. They will be learning about transportation and how not all places have the same types of transportation as we do. We will also be focusing on Rhyming words, punctuation and reading with expression.
In social studies students continue to learn about urban and rural areas (urbaine-ville, rurales-campagne) We will look at the different characteristics that make up city life and country life.
In health, students are looking at the Canadian food guide and learning about portion sizes and what is recommended for them at this age. We will also review fruits and vegetables.
In math, we will be starting our unit on measuring. We will also continue to count to 100, by 2,5 and 10.
Religion class students are learning more about Lent.
I am going to send home a note this week sometime explaining this months project. Students are required to invent their own means of transportation. they can do so with any thing they find around the house. In the past I have had students make their projects out of fruits and vegetables, pop bottles, card board boxes and so on. Please be as creative as possible. It can be a new invention all together or the students take on an old one. We will present them to the class. Students will be evaluated on their use of French when presenting so feel free to practice at home.
We have our last class of in line skating tomorrow. Bricks for kids is also starting to finish up.
I hope to see you all Thursday and Friday at parent teacher. This time around it is student lead so make sure to bring them with you. They will show you what they have learned.
That's all for now.
Laurie Anne
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Where did February go?
Wishing you all a happy day,
In French, we have just started to review parts of the house and the house hold items that you can find in those rooms. We will continue to work on this for the next couple of weeks. We will also be learning about syllables and how to separate words into syllables.
In Health, we will be wrapping up our feelings and moving onto the five different food groups. Students will have the chance to take a closer look at the Canadian food guide.
In social studies, students will learn about the differences between urban and rural communities once we finish up our environment.
In math, we are finishing up the shapes unit and will move onto measurement. Students really enjoyed the shapes unit and this week will be reviewing what they learned. Please continue to practice counting with your child 1-100. They would also benefit from counting backwards 20-1 seeing that some still struggle with this concept.
In English, students will be learning about the many different word families. We are also going to start writing more simple sentences focusing on proper punctuation and capitalization. We do need to finish up explode the code and so I might include it in your Child's reading package so that we may move on.
Calling all musicians.....do we have any talented parents who would like to come in and show the students your skills. I would love to introduce them to different instruments seeing that they are loving using the xylophones.
The 100 day of school is coming up soon. We will celebrate the day by doing activities throughout the day. If you wish to come help and lead an activity please feel free to do so. I am also wondering if you are all willing to help your child create a fun t-shirt with 100 things glued onto it that they can wear the day of to celebrate. You can glue pompons, buttons, bottle caps, macaroni or just about anything.
Here is some ideas from pinterest if you are up for the challenge of leading an activity or want to contribute to the day.
http://www.pinterest.com/allison_drake/100th-day-of-school/
For the month of March the students will be learning about modes of transportation. I have done this class project for the last 3 years and the students loved it! I do need all of your help to make this a success though. I am asking that you send out emails, facebook messages, letters and so on to have your friends from around the world whether they be far or near to send our class postcards from wherever they live or are visiting. They can include on the post card some interesting facts about the place they are from or are visiting, the food they eat there, the language they speak, population and so on. They may send these post cards addressed to our class. Once we get the post cards rolling in we as a class read the messages talk about the details that are added, find it on the map and talk about how could we get there. Could we fly, walk, take a train and so on.
Also I know most of you will be going on some adventures over the March break. If you are willing to take a class puppet along with you that would be fantastic. All that is required that one it speaks in French lol and that you take a picture of you all and the puppet along the way. I brought my class puppet to Italy and England one year. He also travelled to Africa with some of my friends. The students loved seeing their puppet. Let me know if you are interested.
Here is the address of the school where your friends and family can send the postcards. Thanks for your support in advance.
La classe de Mme Laurie-Anne
Ecole Holy Name School
3011 35 St SW, Calgary, AB
T3E 2Y6
Things to keep in mind for this week at Holy Name.
Monday- ALL reading packages are due back. Some of you have not returned these for some time. Please return them so that other students may have the chance to read them.
Wednesday students are to wear pink shirt in support of anti-bullying. Please have a chat with them to talk about this topic.
Friday we have an assembly at 9h30 to celebrate those students who received a confidence nomination.
In French, we have just started to review parts of the house and the house hold items that you can find in those rooms. We will continue to work on this for the next couple of weeks. We will also be learning about syllables and how to separate words into syllables.
In Health, we will be wrapping up our feelings and moving onto the five different food groups. Students will have the chance to take a closer look at the Canadian food guide.
In social studies, students will learn about the differences between urban and rural communities once we finish up our environment.
In math, we are finishing up the shapes unit and will move onto measurement. Students really enjoyed the shapes unit and this week will be reviewing what they learned. Please continue to practice counting with your child 1-100. They would also benefit from counting backwards 20-1 seeing that some still struggle with this concept.
In English, students will be learning about the many different word families. We are also going to start writing more simple sentences focusing on proper punctuation and capitalization. We do need to finish up explode the code and so I might include it in your Child's reading package so that we may move on.
Calling all musicians.....do we have any talented parents who would like to come in and show the students your skills. I would love to introduce them to different instruments seeing that they are loving using the xylophones.
The 100 day of school is coming up soon. We will celebrate the day by doing activities throughout the day. If you wish to come help and lead an activity please feel free to do so. I am also wondering if you are all willing to help your child create a fun t-shirt with 100 things glued onto it that they can wear the day of to celebrate. You can glue pompons, buttons, bottle caps, macaroni or just about anything.
Here is some ideas from pinterest if you are up for the challenge of leading an activity or want to contribute to the day.
http://www.pinterest.com/allison_drake/100th-day-of-school/
For the month of March the students will be learning about modes of transportation. I have done this class project for the last 3 years and the students loved it! I do need all of your help to make this a success though. I am asking that you send out emails, facebook messages, letters and so on to have your friends from around the world whether they be far or near to send our class postcards from wherever they live or are visiting. They can include on the post card some interesting facts about the place they are from or are visiting, the food they eat there, the language they speak, population and so on. They may send these post cards addressed to our class. Once we get the post cards rolling in we as a class read the messages talk about the details that are added, find it on the map and talk about how could we get there. Could we fly, walk, take a train and so on.
Also I know most of you will be going on some adventures over the March break. If you are willing to take a class puppet along with you that would be fantastic. All that is required that one it speaks in French lol and that you take a picture of you all and the puppet along the way. I brought my class puppet to Italy and England one year. He also travelled to Africa with some of my friends. The students loved seeing their puppet. Let me know if you are interested.
La classe de Mme Laurie-Anne
Ecole Holy Name School
3011 35 St SW, Calgary, AB
T3E 2Y6
Things to keep in mind for this week at Holy Name.
Monday- ALL reading packages are due back. Some of you have not returned these for some time. Please return them so that other students may have the chance to read them.
Wednesday students are to wear pink shirt in support of anti-bullying. Please have a chat with them to talk about this topic.
Friday we have an assembly at 9h30 to celebrate those students who received a confidence nomination.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Carnaval
Hi folks,
I am going to repeat the same sight words, sounds as last week seeing that these two weeks were not full weeks. This week is also Carnaval at Holy Name. Students will be having a fun day Friday. They will be outside for most of the afternoon so please make sure that they are dressed for the weather. Don't forget too that Friday is red and white day to show our Olympic spirit. It is also sandwich day too. A lot happening. Could you please send in the reading packages as well some of the packages are missing puzzle pieces and so on so that needs to be fixed up. That's all for now.
Laurie Anne
I am going to repeat the same sight words, sounds as last week seeing that these two weeks were not full weeks. This week is also Carnaval at Holy Name. Students will be having a fun day Friday. They will be outside for most of the afternoon so please make sure that they are dressed for the weather. Don't forget too that Friday is red and white day to show our Olympic spirit. It is also sandwich day too. A lot happening. Could you please send in the reading packages as well some of the packages are missing puzzle pieces and so on so that needs to be fixed up. That's all for now.
Laurie Anne
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Brrr its cold outside!
I hope you are all staying warm these last couple of days! Its hard to get motivated to get out and do when its that cold.
This week is flying by, the whole month of February I feel is flying by too. This week in French we are finishing up the booklets J'aime...Je n'aime pas. We are also working on writing small stories, where students can chose to write what they wish or follow a repetitive text. This story will be evaluated for their report card. I have told the students that I am looking for neat printing, spaces between words, periods at the end of their sentences and that their sentences make sense. We are reviewing vowels and their sounds. We have a weekly message and each morning we work on a different concept or strategy. The students are loving this and find it so silly when I mix up the sentences. I must say, some of them are getting better and picking out the mistakes by simply listening to me read it a loud.
In math we have finished our testing of counting by 2,5,10 as well as identifying written numbers up to 20. They also had to fill in the missing numbers on a hundreds frame. They students got to play with the geoplan boards the other day. It was interesting to see them trying to manipulate the elastic into shapes. We played a game of what am I, where I give characteristics of shapes and the students have to represent them on their geoplan.
In English we are finishing up our colours booklet and we will be working on a small story about ourselves. If any of you would like to volunteer your time once a week to come in and read with the students we would greatly appreciate it. If you are interested please let me know. Don't forget if you have time to practice the English sight words! You could always play tic-tac-word!
In social studies we have been talking about the environment, how to be responsible and how we all have responsibilities at home, at school and in our communities. I had chatted to some of you about my ideas on creating a project that the students can do at home to help them with their listening skills and make them more responsible....aka doing chores! I found the perfect sheet at Scholars choice the other day. I have laminated it so you may use it over and over again!! I will be sending them home on Monday in the reading package. You may keep these home to use. My goal for doing this project is to have the students work on listening skills, once you tell them their chores or to go do their chores they are to listen to you the first time. NO REPEATING! This requires you to think of a consequence though, so I am relying on you all to be tough! I will send home a note attached with more details. Here are some articles I read about how to make kids listen... I am trying some of the strategies in class.
http://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2010/03/20/how-to-get-students-to-listen-to-you/
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/parenting/discipline-behavior/25-ways-talk-so-children-will-listen
In religion we are learning about paraboles. If you have not done so yet please send in the meaning and reasoning why you named your child. I am loving reading the ones so far, each one of them have touched me!
Tomorrow we have a theatre group coming in to present to the students. On Friday there is also another group coming to present to the students and in the afternoon the students will have their Valentine's dance. Students are asked to wear pink and red that day. If you wish to send in valentines I will be sending home a class list with the students names. You might notice a new name on there, we are suppose to get a new student Monday.
I think that is all this week.
Stay warm,
Laurie Anne
This week is flying by, the whole month of February I feel is flying by too. This week in French we are finishing up the booklets J'aime...Je n'aime pas. We are also working on writing small stories, where students can chose to write what they wish or follow a repetitive text. This story will be evaluated for their report card. I have told the students that I am looking for neat printing, spaces between words, periods at the end of their sentences and that their sentences make sense. We are reviewing vowels and their sounds. We have a weekly message and each morning we work on a different concept or strategy. The students are loving this and find it so silly when I mix up the sentences. I must say, some of them are getting better and picking out the mistakes by simply listening to me read it a loud.
In math we have finished our testing of counting by 2,5,10 as well as identifying written numbers up to 20. They also had to fill in the missing numbers on a hundreds frame. They students got to play with the geoplan boards the other day. It was interesting to see them trying to manipulate the elastic into shapes. We played a game of what am I, where I give characteristics of shapes and the students have to represent them on their geoplan.
In English we are finishing up our colours booklet and we will be working on a small story about ourselves. If any of you would like to volunteer your time once a week to come in and read with the students we would greatly appreciate it. If you are interested please let me know. Don't forget if you have time to practice the English sight words! You could always play tic-tac-word!
In social studies we have been talking about the environment, how to be responsible and how we all have responsibilities at home, at school and in our communities. I had chatted to some of you about my ideas on creating a project that the students can do at home to help them with their listening skills and make them more responsible....aka doing chores! I found the perfect sheet at Scholars choice the other day. I have laminated it so you may use it over and over again!! I will be sending them home on Monday in the reading package. You may keep these home to use. My goal for doing this project is to have the students work on listening skills, once you tell them their chores or to go do their chores they are to listen to you the first time. NO REPEATING! This requires you to think of a consequence though, so I am relying on you all to be tough! I will send home a note attached with more details. Here are some articles I read about how to make kids listen... I am trying some of the strategies in class.
http://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2010/03/20/how-to-get-students-to-listen-to-you/
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/parenting/discipline-behavior/25-ways-talk-so-children-will-listen
In religion we are learning about paraboles. If you have not done so yet please send in the meaning and reasoning why you named your child. I am loving reading the ones so far, each one of them have touched me!
Tomorrow we have a theatre group coming in to present to the students. On Friday there is also another group coming to present to the students and in the afternoon the students will have their Valentine's dance. Students are asked to wear pink and red that day. If you wish to send in valentines I will be sending home a class list with the students names. You might notice a new name on there, we are suppose to get a new student Monday.
I think that is all this week.
Stay warm,
Laurie Anne
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the delay on this weeks post.
We are still working on everything mentioned in last weeks post. We continue to work on our books "J'aime mais je n'aime pas" Some of the students are doing a great job and putting forth a lot of effort into their work. Today we were detectives and went through the dictionary to find all the hard and soft "g's". They students really enjoy doing this and love seeing if their friends found the same ones as them. I have been trying to get the students to speak more in French and to answer in complete sentences rather than just one short answer.This helps them practice speaking in French and being able to recognise correct sentence structures.
In math we are working on comparing objects, finding out their similarities, differences and the different ways to classify them. You can practice this at home if you want, here are some of the words we are using to describe shapes. face plane (flat surface) courbe (curves) points, coin (corners) empiler (to pill or stack) rouler (to roll) glisser (to slide) sommet. We still need to work on counting backwards from 20 in French.
I have a social studies projects in the makes but it requires your help. Once I figure out all the details I will let you all know.
I hope the reading is going well I can see a change in those who are reading daily at home! Keep working on the French sounds as well. Once they have those mastered the reading will come that much easier.
We still have lacrosse this week. Library will be on Friday.I think that is about all. Not much this week. Have a great rest of the week.
Laurie Anne :)
Sorry for the delay on this weeks post.
We are still working on everything mentioned in last weeks post. We continue to work on our books "J'aime mais je n'aime pas" Some of the students are doing a great job and putting forth a lot of effort into their work. Today we were detectives and went through the dictionary to find all the hard and soft "g's". They students really enjoy doing this and love seeing if their friends found the same ones as them. I have been trying to get the students to speak more in French and to answer in complete sentences rather than just one short answer.This helps them practice speaking in French and being able to recognise correct sentence structures.
In math we are working on comparing objects, finding out their similarities, differences and the different ways to classify them. You can practice this at home if you want, here are some of the words we are using to describe shapes. face plane (flat surface) courbe (curves) points, coin (corners) empiler (to pill or stack) rouler (to roll) glisser (to slide) sommet. We still need to work on counting backwards from 20 in French.
I have a social studies projects in the makes but it requires your help. Once I figure out all the details I will let you all know.
I hope the reading is going well I can see a change in those who are reading daily at home! Keep working on the French sounds as well. Once they have those mastered the reading will come that much easier.
We still have lacrosse this week. Library will be on Friday.I think that is about all. Not much this week. Have a great rest of the week.
Laurie Anne :)
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Je parle en francais!
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all having a great week end and are enjoying the great weather! I hope it keeps up this coming week!
In French we continue to learn about winter sports and clothing. The students are starting to learn about singulier(singular) and pluriels (plural). There are a couple of rules in French when it come to pluriel. For example if a word finishes with eau or ou you must use an "x" rather than an "s". Bateau- les bateaux, un hibou-les hiboux. Also they are begining to see more often in their reading books words that finish with "ent" in most cases "ent" does not speak. It shows the reader that there is more than one person or thing being talked about. They will also notice if there is "ils" or "elles" usually "ent" will follow. For example: Ils jouent dehors., Maman, papa, Sophie et moi courent.
We continue to work on making story predictions, answering the 5w's and talking about the beginning, middle and end of the stories. In class the students are also learning to pick out important details in the text. We have been practicing reading small texts and then doing what it tells use to do, whether it is to color the jacket green and his mitts purple or to put an x on the dog. I will be giving the students a quiz regarding this at the end of the week, which I will count for the report card on reading comprehension and reading/following instructions.
We will also be working hard this week on producing complete sentences with an upper case to start and a period to end the sentence. The students will be require to create a booklet on the things that they like (j'aime) and the things that they do not like (je n'aime pas). They will present their book to their classmates. I will also be evaluating who is able to produce a complete sentence, who is able to present their book orally in French to the class.
I will be including a sheet with the pronunciation of French words in English to help you all out at home with pronouncing words. All the letters of the alphabet are included along with combined sounds. I hope this will help you all out!
In health we are learning about being a good friend, how to react to both positive and negative situations and the emotions that we can experience in a run of a day. Students will learn that we are not all the same, but unique in our own ways and might react differently to different situations.
In social studies we have been learning about our environment and how we have a responsibility to protect it. Some of the students are very excited about this and are wanting to do their part....like going to a beach to clean up its shores. We talk a lot about marine life for some reason when it comes to protecting our environment and they are all concerned for the safety of whales.
In math we continue to play with shapes. They will have a quiz at the end of the week which requires them to pick out particular shapes mixed in with a bunch of others. They must be able to recognise un carre (square), un cercle (circle), un rectangle (rectangle), un losange (diamond) un triangle(triangle). I will also be sending home math sheets that have a 100 frame on it, it asks that you skip count by 2,5,10. You can have your child color the numbers when you count by counting by 2,5,10. please le me know if you would like math sheets with addition and subtractions sent home, seeing that we will be taking a break from practicing them to continue working on our shapes.
English we are working on colors and reading and producing small complete sentences. We are also focusing on making story predictions and answering the 5w's. If any of you would like extra work sent home for English please let me know. I have put together a duo tang with extra work, saong with activities to do with your child to build their phonemic awareness. There are several activities for each level, 5 levels in total.
This week at school we have our New years liturgy. We will be singing a song and Annika will be doing a reading from our class. This will take place on January 22. Bricks for kids have started and young Rembrandt will start on Monday.
I think that's all for now. Enjoy the day and see you soon.
LA
Oh ps; We have started Je parle en francais and I am happy to say I am impressed with some of the students speaking French all the time and how eager they are to do so. I hope this continues!! Bravo mes amis! Je t'aime.
I hope you are all having a great week end and are enjoying the great weather! I hope it keeps up this coming week!
In French we continue to learn about winter sports and clothing. The students are starting to learn about singulier(singular) and pluriels (plural). There are a couple of rules in French when it come to pluriel. For example if a word finishes with eau or ou you must use an "x" rather than an "s". Bateau- les bateaux, un hibou-les hiboux. Also they are begining to see more often in their reading books words that finish with "ent" in most cases "ent" does not speak. It shows the reader that there is more than one person or thing being talked about. They will also notice if there is "ils" or "elles" usually "ent" will follow. For example: Ils jouent dehors., Maman, papa, Sophie et moi courent.
We continue to work on making story predictions, answering the 5w's and talking about the beginning, middle and end of the stories. In class the students are also learning to pick out important details in the text. We have been practicing reading small texts and then doing what it tells use to do, whether it is to color the jacket green and his mitts purple or to put an x on the dog. I will be giving the students a quiz regarding this at the end of the week, which I will count for the report card on reading comprehension and reading/following instructions.
We will also be working hard this week on producing complete sentences with an upper case to start and a period to end the sentence. The students will be require to create a booklet on the things that they like (j'aime) and the things that they do not like (je n'aime pas). They will present their book to their classmates. I will also be evaluating who is able to produce a complete sentence, who is able to present their book orally in French to the class.
I will be including a sheet with the pronunciation of French words in English to help you all out at home with pronouncing words. All the letters of the alphabet are included along with combined sounds. I hope this will help you all out!
In health we are learning about being a good friend, how to react to both positive and negative situations and the emotions that we can experience in a run of a day. Students will learn that we are not all the same, but unique in our own ways and might react differently to different situations.
In social studies we have been learning about our environment and how we have a responsibility to protect it. Some of the students are very excited about this and are wanting to do their part....like going to a beach to clean up its shores. We talk a lot about marine life for some reason when it comes to protecting our environment and they are all concerned for the safety of whales.
In math we continue to play with shapes. They will have a quiz at the end of the week which requires them to pick out particular shapes mixed in with a bunch of others. They must be able to recognise un carre (square), un cercle (circle), un rectangle (rectangle), un losange (diamond) un triangle(triangle). I will also be sending home math sheets that have a 100 frame on it, it asks that you skip count by 2,5,10. You can have your child color the numbers when you count by counting by 2,5,10. please le me know if you would like math sheets with addition and subtractions sent home, seeing that we will be taking a break from practicing them to continue working on our shapes.
English we are working on colors and reading and producing small complete sentences. We are also focusing on making story predictions and answering the 5w's. If any of you would like extra work sent home for English please let me know. I have put together a duo tang with extra work, saong with activities to do with your child to build their phonemic awareness. There are several activities for each level, 5 levels in total.
This week at school we have our New years liturgy. We will be singing a song and Annika will be doing a reading from our class. This will take place on January 22. Bricks for kids have started and young Rembrandt will start on Monday.
I think that's all for now. Enjoy the day and see you soon.
LA
Oh ps; We have started Je parle en francais and I am happy to say I am impressed with some of the students speaking French all the time and how eager they are to do so. I hope this continues!! Bravo mes amis! Je t'aime.
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