Can you believe it this week we will have been in school for 100 days! The kids are super excited for the 100th day tomorrow. I cant wait to see them dressed in their 100 day t-shirts! In the morning we have some parent volunteers here to do a surprise activity with the students! I don't even know what they have planned!
This week is a full week with something happening everyday. Tuesday along with the 100th day there is the Christian action assembly at 10:30. Wednesday is Pink shirt day to promote awareness against bullying. Mme Wilma the musician in residence will also be here and teachers pet will be here to teach us all about country and city living. Choir for grade 1 will be Tuesday and Thursday. Library this week is Wednesday also. Friday the students will be observing the Geographie finals put on every year by M.Iticka.
In class, we have been catching up and finishing work. I have sent home the black and red duo-tangs with most of the kids to work on and catch up or finish if possible. Don't fret we are all a little behind, hence why I sent them home. Thanks for helping us out by working on them. Once finished you can send them in to be corrected. Just a friendly reminder that if you child is working on their school work at home, please have them do so in pencil, not pen.
I don't have much this week. Keep reading, practicing sight words and work on counting by 5's in French up to 100. Have a great week everyone.
LA
Monday, February 22, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Rested and full of new ideas!
Hi everyone,
Welcome back from a long break! I hope you all had a great time with the family and got to enjoy the weather. I had a great two days at convention and learned a lot. I went to a couple of workshops on Math as well as literacy. I bought some cool games to add to our centers in class and some new stickers! I will share some of the information I think you may find helpful.
** I attend two sessions on literacy. One on how to help parents at home with reading as well as immersive literacy for kids. I got a lot of great resources for all of you to try at home or explore when you have time. A couple of points Id like to share with you that the presenter said to get you thinking. 1) Reading levels and listening levels are not the same. Often children may not be able to read but if they are read to daily then are just as able to understand, make connections and comprehend the text.
2)If your child struggles to read or hasn't the desire yet, try wordless picture books and have them tell the story based on the pictures.
3) Dad you have to put in some reading time either with the kids or at least have them see you read. This is especially important for the boys to see.
4) There's no app to replace your lap.
I game was mentioned also to try at home which I love!! They said let your child flash lite read maybe once a week, get under the covers with a book and flash light and read. What kid wouldn't love that! You could also do something like this with their sight words on the ceiling. Have them shine the flashlight on each word and read!
Here is also a list of websites they game us that may help you at home with reading. This presentation had a lot of great ideas but didn't have many for French....which is probably what most of you would love to have! If I find anything similar ill send it your way.
http://www.goodreads.com/
http://amongstlovelythings.com/read-aloud-revival-the-podcast/
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
http://www.audible.com/
https://www.getepic.com/
https://www.pebblego.com/login/
https://calgarylibrary.ca/news/brainfuse-a-free-new-tool-for-homework-help/ **Free tutor**
https://www.oneminutereader.com/
Before I forget out class will have our long over due pizza party from way back in October when we won the gala basket contest. We will be having it this Thursday the 18th at noon. No need to pack a lunch! YAY! However if you child does not dig pizza please pack them a lunch.
The 100th day of school is next week, Feb 23. Students are asked to sport a 100 day t-shirt if possible. I have done this in the past and the students love it. It takes a little work on your part, seeing that they have to glue, stick or paste 100 items on a t-shirt. Its a great counting activity! Pinterest has some great ideas and examples if you are stuck. I will include the link to help you out.
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=100+day+of+school+shirt&0=100%7Cautocomplete%7C1&1=day%7Cautocomplete%7C1&2=of%7Cautocomplete%7C1&3=school%7Cautocomplete%7C1&4=shirt%7Cautocomplete%7C1
Thursday Feb 24 we will have an in class fieldtrip. Teachers pet will be coming in to teach us all about urban and rural living. We still need 1 parent volunteer for 1 o'clock. If you are available please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.
This Friday we as a school are collecting lotion for the drop in center. We usually do Sandwiches but we learned also last year there are a lot of items on their wish list that are harder to fill sometimes. If you are interested in helping out feel free.
That's it for this short week!
LA
Welcome back from a long break! I hope you all had a great time with the family and got to enjoy the weather. I had a great two days at convention and learned a lot. I went to a couple of workshops on Math as well as literacy. I bought some cool games to add to our centers in class and some new stickers! I will share some of the information I think you may find helpful.
** I attend two sessions on literacy. One on how to help parents at home with reading as well as immersive literacy for kids. I got a lot of great resources for all of you to try at home or explore when you have time. A couple of points Id like to share with you that the presenter said to get you thinking. 1) Reading levels and listening levels are not the same. Often children may not be able to read but if they are read to daily then are just as able to understand, make connections and comprehend the text.
2)If your child struggles to read or hasn't the desire yet, try wordless picture books and have them tell the story based on the pictures.
3) Dad you have to put in some reading time either with the kids or at least have them see you read. This is especially important for the boys to see.
4) There's no app to replace your lap.
I game was mentioned also to try at home which I love!! They said let your child flash lite read maybe once a week, get under the covers with a book and flash light and read. What kid wouldn't love that! You could also do something like this with their sight words on the ceiling. Have them shine the flashlight on each word and read!
Here is also a list of websites they game us that may help you at home with reading. This presentation had a lot of great ideas but didn't have many for French....which is probably what most of you would love to have! If I find anything similar ill send it your way.
http://www.goodreads.com/
http://amongstlovelythings.com/read-aloud-revival-the-podcast/
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
http://www.audible.com/
https://www.getepic.com/
https://www.pebblego.com/login/
https://calgarylibrary.ca/news/brainfuse-a-free-new-tool-for-homework-help/ **Free tutor**
https://www.oneminutereader.com/
Before I forget out class will have our long over due pizza party from way back in October when we won the gala basket contest. We will be having it this Thursday the 18th at noon. No need to pack a lunch! YAY! However if you child does not dig pizza please pack them a lunch.
The 100th day of school is next week, Feb 23. Students are asked to sport a 100 day t-shirt if possible. I have done this in the past and the students love it. It takes a little work on your part, seeing that they have to glue, stick or paste 100 items on a t-shirt. Its a great counting activity! Pinterest has some great ideas and examples if you are stuck. I will include the link to help you out.
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=100+day+of+school+shirt&0=100%7Cautocomplete%7C1&1=day%7Cautocomplete%7C1&2=of%7Cautocomplete%7C1&3=school%7Cautocomplete%7C1&4=shirt%7Cautocomplete%7C1
Thursday Feb 24 we will have an in class fieldtrip. Teachers pet will be coming in to teach us all about urban and rural living. We still need 1 parent volunteer for 1 o'clock. If you are available please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.
This Friday we as a school are collecting lotion for the drop in center. We usually do Sandwiches but we learned also last year there are a lot of items on their wish list that are harder to fill sometimes. If you are interested in helping out feel free.
That's it for this short week!
LA
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
February is upon us!
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.
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.
Monday, January 11, 2016
HI Everyone,
Hope you all had a great week end! Another calm week at school....which is soo nice to have for a change. We do have our New Year Liturgy this Friday at 2pm. Our class is doing it along with Mme Janice's class. You are all welcome to join us. We are going to sing a song called "Growing in Fath, Growing in Christ" I will send it home today to practice.
Scholastics are due this week also. I believe I put the 14th on the list. If you could send them in by Friday that would be great.
We also have our Smothie party on Thursday Jan 14. Thanks for sending in all your order forms.
Choir is Tuesday and Thursday of this week at little recess. Library day is Thursday as well.
Friday is Sandwich day for the drop in. If you wish to participate send in pre-made sandwhichs any kinds Friday morning.
In class, I have started my reading evaluations, they are coming along well. I have also started to quiz the students on their sight words. Please keep practicing at home! I will go over the English words probably next week.
The 100th day of school is coming up in the next couple of weeks. Just wondering if anyone is interested in coming in on that day and doing an activity of your choice? Last year I have a parent make 100 day cookie and brought a couple of games to play. If you are up for it let me know.
I don't have much this week.
Enjoy the week everyone.
LA
Hope you all had a great week end! Another calm week at school....which is soo nice to have for a change. We do have our New Year Liturgy this Friday at 2pm. Our class is doing it along with Mme Janice's class. You are all welcome to join us. We are going to sing a song called "Growing in Fath, Growing in Christ" I will send it home today to practice.
Scholastics are due this week also. I believe I put the 14th on the list. If you could send them in by Friday that would be great.
We also have our Smothie party on Thursday Jan 14. Thanks for sending in all your order forms.
Choir is Tuesday and Thursday of this week at little recess. Library day is Thursday as well.
Friday is Sandwich day for the drop in. If you wish to participate send in pre-made sandwhichs any kinds Friday morning.
In class, I have started my reading evaluations, they are coming along well. I have also started to quiz the students on their sight words. Please keep practicing at home! I will go over the English words probably next week.
The 100th day of school is coming up in the next couple of weeks. Just wondering if anyone is interested in coming in on that day and doing an activity of your choice? Last year I have a parent make 100 day cookie and brought a couple of games to play. If you are up for it let me know.
I don't have much this week.
Enjoy the week everyone.
LA
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Happy New Year! Bonne annee!
Welcome back everyone to a new year. I hope that your holidays were filled with the magic of Christmas and your friends and family filled your homes with laughter and love! I had a fabulous time at home in PEI with my dad and all my friends. It was hard to come back to the rush of Calgary but I was glad to get back to the kids! I missed them!
This is a slow and quiet week at school! We will review our class rules, seeing that sometimes having a two week break makes us forget how things run. In French, we will review all sound combinations that we learned before the break and will go over our sight words. Please review these with your child. I will start asking them again to read their sight words for me. If they need motivation remind them that they can get a prize after reading 5 weeks worth of words correctly! We have started our weekly messages in class. This is great practice for the students to learn sentence structures, new words, punction and how to answer questions about the text. Less English will be spoken in class and students will be expected to express themselves as best they can by using the words they know in French. This months theme in Staying warm and active in winter. Students will learn the proper vocabulary for clothing and winter activities and sports. When learning clothing the students will also review parts of the body. We will also be learning more about syllables and how to put a proper sentence together with correct punctuation.
In Math, students have started their addition and subtraction unit. They will be playing with blocks to find all the different number combinations for numbers up to 20. We have also briefly talked about how to identify if a problem is addition or subtraction by looking for key words. Feel free to practice and review these words/concepts in English.
In Science, I hope to finish up the 5 senses unit next week and then move onto building. Students will be required to write a quiz to identify what sense is being used in the pictures.
In Social Studies, the students are learning about their rights and responsibilities. We have had a quick chat about what they are at home, school and our community.
In Health, the students will be starting to learn about the 4 food groups and the Canadian food guide. We will talk about why it is important to eat from each group and so on.
In English, students will be review all sight words since the beginning of the year. We will also start to learn about blends and word families.
That's a quick run down on what to expect this month in class. I hope you are starting to see progress with your childs reading at home and word recognition. If you need anything at all just let me know.
Have a great week!
PS I don't know if I mentioned how many turkeys we got this year seeing that Friday was soo busy! The students raised just over $1300.00 and were able to buy 112 turkeys. That is the biggest number yet. Thank you all who helped out, donated and encouraged your children. Last year the Drop In was able to feed their clients 3 separate times with our donation of 74 turkeys I can only hope that 112 gets them a couple of more great meals! Thanks again:)
This is a slow and quiet week at school! We will review our class rules, seeing that sometimes having a two week break makes us forget how things run. In French, we will review all sound combinations that we learned before the break and will go over our sight words. Please review these with your child. I will start asking them again to read their sight words for me. If they need motivation remind them that they can get a prize after reading 5 weeks worth of words correctly! We have started our weekly messages in class. This is great practice for the students to learn sentence structures, new words, punction and how to answer questions about the text. Less English will be spoken in class and students will be expected to express themselves as best they can by using the words they know in French. This months theme in Staying warm and active in winter. Students will learn the proper vocabulary for clothing and winter activities and sports. When learning clothing the students will also review parts of the body. We will also be learning more about syllables and how to put a proper sentence together with correct punctuation.
In Math, students have started their addition and subtraction unit. They will be playing with blocks to find all the different number combinations for numbers up to 20. We have also briefly talked about how to identify if a problem is addition or subtraction by looking for key words. Feel free to practice and review these words/concepts in English.
In Science, I hope to finish up the 5 senses unit next week and then move onto building. Students will be required to write a quiz to identify what sense is being used in the pictures.
In Social Studies, the students are learning about their rights and responsibilities. We have had a quick chat about what they are at home, school and our community.
In Health, the students will be starting to learn about the 4 food groups and the Canadian food guide. We will talk about why it is important to eat from each group and so on.
In English, students will be review all sight words since the beginning of the year. We will also start to learn about blends and word families.
That's a quick run down on what to expect this month in class. I hope you are starting to see progress with your childs reading at home and word recognition. If you need anything at all just let me know.
Have a great week!
PS I don't know if I mentioned how many turkeys we got this year seeing that Friday was soo busy! The students raised just over $1300.00 and were able to buy 112 turkeys. That is the biggest number yet. Thank you all who helped out, donated and encouraged your children. Last year the Drop In was able to feed their clients 3 separate times with our donation of 74 turkeys I can only hope that 112 gets them a couple of more great meals! Thanks again:)
Friday, December 11, 2015
Post for this week and next!
Hi everyone,
Hope your week has ended well. The count down is on until the Christmas holidays begin. Its starting to feel a little more like Christmas seeing that things are slowing down at school. The candy cane sales was a huge success. Thank you for all of you who helped out the night of the concert. It can be hectic. We sold out fast and even sold out of the back up papers. In the end we had to write candy oh grams on extra paper we found. We finally have organized everything and will hopefully deliever them today at the end of the day. There are a lot of candy canes to pass out. I will be encouraging the students who have a ton to share the wealth and attach them to the Christmas cards we are making for the clients at the drop in centre. I still have to count all the moola, once I have that done I will let you all know the total and how many turkeys we will purchase. I will be sending them to the Drop in next week. We will still collect change up until Monday December 14th.
Today is the last day to try Fruits and veggies. It was a success again this year. I love this project! I love seeing the students reaction to trying new things. I will go over the booklets and then send them home for you to look at. I hope they help you with some healthy snack ideas!
We have written Santa and hope that he will write us back before school ends. We also got our Christmas elf in the mail last week. Her name is Lulu. She comes every year to class to watch over us. She is Santa's number one doll maker elf. The students love her and she has been a great help to keep them focused, especially at this time of year.
In Math, we are now starting to get into addition and subtraction up to 20. They will learn about addition first and then subtraction so do not panic if they have no idea what you are talking about when you mention subtraction! Please though practice and take the time to explain these concepts to your child in English. This will help them when I start to explain them in French.
In Science, the students continue to learn about the 5 senses. We are now learning about our hearing and sight. The students have learned about a boy who is blind but has developed his own way of getting around by clicking (echolocation). He is able to roller blade, bike, play video games and so on. They will also be learning about Helen Keller, who was also blind and deaf.
In Social Studies, we have taken a break from learning about our country and have started to talk about our rights and responsibilities. We have already chatted about our responsibilities at home and at school. This is a great way to chat about expected behavior, how society works and also to point out how lucky we are! They had many questions about the rights of children in other parts of the world.
Next week is our last week before Christmas. It is a busy week and a fast week that always ends before I am ready. Last year for fun we did the 5 days before the holidays countdown. Everyday we had something fun planned. We will do this again this year. Here is the things we will be doing.
Monday- Dress as a present. Students come dressed with bows, paper...
Tuesday- Dress as a Christmas tree. All in green, with decorations or Christmas colors
Wednesday- Dress as a Christmas Elf.
Thursday- PJ day. Students may bring a stuffy. Watching Gr 3 play also this day.
Friday- Dress in Christmas best for the liturgy. 1/2 day at school, noon dismissal.
On Monday Christian action is at 9h30. Milk orders are also due on Monday. Wednesday there is special lunch and reading club for those who attend. Thursday the grade 3's will put on their play "Unfrozen" There will be a Nativity walk where students go class to class and learn about special Christmas Traditions. We will also have our Christmas celebration in the afternoon, seeing that Friday will be crazy and to fast! If you wish to send in a holiday treat feel free to do so. Keep in mind we have one student who is gluten free, so if possible an option for her would be greatly appreciated.
Friday our last day together for 2015! It is a half day of school, noon dismissal. We have our Advent liturgy at 10h30 for those who would like to join.
Thank you all for a great first half of the year. I look forward to what 2016 has to offer all of us. If I do not get a chance to see you before Friday. I wish you the Merriest of Christmas filled with love and laughter. I hope you make tons of great memories. See you all in the new year! :)
Hope your week has ended well. The count down is on until the Christmas holidays begin. Its starting to feel a little more like Christmas seeing that things are slowing down at school. The candy cane sales was a huge success. Thank you for all of you who helped out the night of the concert. It can be hectic. We sold out fast and even sold out of the back up papers. In the end we had to write candy oh grams on extra paper we found. We finally have organized everything and will hopefully deliever them today at the end of the day. There are a lot of candy canes to pass out. I will be encouraging the students who have a ton to share the wealth and attach them to the Christmas cards we are making for the clients at the drop in centre. I still have to count all the moola, once I have that done I will let you all know the total and how many turkeys we will purchase. I will be sending them to the Drop in next week. We will still collect change up until Monday December 14th.
Today is the last day to try Fruits and veggies. It was a success again this year. I love this project! I love seeing the students reaction to trying new things. I will go over the booklets and then send them home for you to look at. I hope they help you with some healthy snack ideas!
We have written Santa and hope that he will write us back before school ends. We also got our Christmas elf in the mail last week. Her name is Lulu. She comes every year to class to watch over us. She is Santa's number one doll maker elf. The students love her and she has been a great help to keep them focused, especially at this time of year.
In Math, we are now starting to get into addition and subtraction up to 20. They will learn about addition first and then subtraction so do not panic if they have no idea what you are talking about when you mention subtraction! Please though practice and take the time to explain these concepts to your child in English. This will help them when I start to explain them in French.
In Science, the students continue to learn about the 5 senses. We are now learning about our hearing and sight. The students have learned about a boy who is blind but has developed his own way of getting around by clicking (echolocation). He is able to roller blade, bike, play video games and so on. They will also be learning about Helen Keller, who was also blind and deaf.
In Social Studies, we have taken a break from learning about our country and have started to talk about our rights and responsibilities. We have already chatted about our responsibilities at home and at school. This is a great way to chat about expected behavior, how society works and also to point out how lucky we are! They had many questions about the rights of children in other parts of the world.
Next week is our last week before Christmas. It is a busy week and a fast week that always ends before I am ready. Last year for fun we did the 5 days before the holidays countdown. Everyday we had something fun planned. We will do this again this year. Here is the things we will be doing.
Monday- Dress as a present. Students come dressed with bows, paper...
Tuesday- Dress as a Christmas tree. All in green, with decorations or Christmas colors
Wednesday- Dress as a Christmas Elf.
Thursday- PJ day. Students may bring a stuffy. Watching Gr 3 play also this day.
Friday- Dress in Christmas best for the liturgy. 1/2 day at school, noon dismissal.
On Monday Christian action is at 9h30. Milk orders are also due on Monday. Wednesday there is special lunch and reading club for those who attend. Thursday the grade 3's will put on their play "Unfrozen" There will be a Nativity walk where students go class to class and learn about special Christmas Traditions. We will also have our Christmas celebration in the afternoon, seeing that Friday will be crazy and to fast! If you wish to send in a holiday treat feel free to do so. Keep in mind we have one student who is gluten free, so if possible an option for her would be greatly appreciated.
Friday our last day together for 2015! It is a half day of school, noon dismissal. We have our Advent liturgy at 10h30 for those who would like to join.
Thank you all for a great first half of the year. I look forward to what 2016 has to offer all of us. If I do not get a chance to see you before Friday. I wish you the Merriest of Christmas filled with love and laughter. I hope you make tons of great memories. See you all in the new year! :)
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
December is upon us!
Well it is December and if you are a kid or me... its probably your favorite time of year. I love everything about Christmas. The music, decorations, the food and heading back home to PEI to spend time with my dad. So the countdown is on in class for Santa and the days until I head home.
This month in class the students will be learning Christmas vocabulary, Christmas traditions of others and how to sing some Christmas favorites in French. We will also review French vocabulary and sounds from the beginning of the year to date and work on using the French sentence structures. With the holiday season we will be making some crafts. Could you all please send in a mason jar. A pickling jar works best. If you could please send those in by Friday December 4th it would be greatly appreciated.
This week in class students will be preparing for the Christmas concert by practicing their song. The concert is this Thursday at St. Michael's Church. The school choir will start to sing at 5:30. The concert is to start at 6:30. I am hoping to be there at 5:15 to set up the tables for selling the candy canes. I am still on the hunt for Allan brand candy canes. They are the ones I sell every year because they are nut, dairy, wheat and gluten free. If any of you have seen them around please let me know ASAP! If you have volunteered to sell candy canes it would be great if you could be there for 5:30-5:45-6:00. The students are going to wear their Sunday best. Boys are asked to wear black pants, white shirt. The girls are asked to wear a nice dress. The concert can be long as we have more classes this year and we are at the beginning of the show. If you wish to take your child home before the concert is over please let me know in advance. The teachers have planned a song and dance for your enjoyment.
For those of you new to the school and are not sure what exactly the candy oh grams are here is a quick explanation. Our class sell the candy canes to collect money to purchase turkeys. The candy o grams are a little note to spread some Christmas cheer that you can send your child, their friends or a staff member. They are a cost of .50cents each, so be sure to bring some change.
Mme Wilma is here on Wednesday to practice the songs and the dance moves that go along with it. The students also have special lunch Wednesday if they have ordered it. Reading club is cancelled Wednesday for those who attend.
On Thursday, the Advent liturgy will be held in our classrooms starting at 1pm. The Christmas concert is also Thursday. If you have any questions about the concert please let me know.
Friday all Ginger bread house money is due, if you have not already passed it in. This is a class project put on by the grade 2 classes. The money collected will go to support the Breakfast program at our sister school in the N.E. If you wish to sign up and haven't received a form, please let me know and Ill get one to you right away.
Monday all Scholastic order forms are due. I will need to place these orders right away to ensure that you will get them before Christmas. If you have purchased some items as a gift I will set it aside for you and let you know when it has arrived. For Monday could you also please return with your child's reading package the Pink A book "Mes Histoire". We will be exchanging them for the B book with Christmas stories.
That's all for now. Enjoy the week everyone.
Laurie Anne
This month in class the students will be learning Christmas vocabulary, Christmas traditions of others and how to sing some Christmas favorites in French. We will also review French vocabulary and sounds from the beginning of the year to date and work on using the French sentence structures. With the holiday season we will be making some crafts. Could you all please send in a mason jar. A pickling jar works best. If you could please send those in by Friday December 4th it would be greatly appreciated.
This week in class students will be preparing for the Christmas concert by practicing their song. The concert is this Thursday at St. Michael's Church. The school choir will start to sing at 5:30. The concert is to start at 6:30. I am hoping to be there at 5:15 to set up the tables for selling the candy canes. I am still on the hunt for Allan brand candy canes. They are the ones I sell every year because they are nut, dairy, wheat and gluten free. If any of you have seen them around please let me know ASAP! If you have volunteered to sell candy canes it would be great if you could be there for 5:30-5:45-6:00. The students are going to wear their Sunday best. Boys are asked to wear black pants, white shirt. The girls are asked to wear a nice dress. The concert can be long as we have more classes this year and we are at the beginning of the show. If you wish to take your child home before the concert is over please let me know in advance. The teachers have planned a song and dance for your enjoyment.
For those of you new to the school and are not sure what exactly the candy oh grams are here is a quick explanation. Our class sell the candy canes to collect money to purchase turkeys. The candy o grams are a little note to spread some Christmas cheer that you can send your child, their friends or a staff member. They are a cost of .50cents each, so be sure to bring some change.
Mme Wilma is here on Wednesday to practice the songs and the dance moves that go along with it. The students also have special lunch Wednesday if they have ordered it. Reading club is cancelled Wednesday for those who attend.
On Thursday, the Advent liturgy will be held in our classrooms starting at 1pm. The Christmas concert is also Thursday. If you have any questions about the concert please let me know.
Friday all Ginger bread house money is due, if you have not already passed it in. This is a class project put on by the grade 2 classes. The money collected will go to support the Breakfast program at our sister school in the N.E. If you wish to sign up and haven't received a form, please let me know and Ill get one to you right away.
Monday all Scholastic order forms are due. I will need to place these orders right away to ensure that you will get them before Christmas. If you have purchased some items as a gift I will set it aside for you and let you know when it has arrived. For Monday could you also please return with your child's reading package the Pink A book "Mes Histoire". We will be exchanging them for the B book with Christmas stories.
That's all for now. Enjoy the week everyone.
Laurie Anne
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