Bonjour tout le monde,
This week is a short one. Students do not have school on Friday. All teachers have a professional development day. We also have a lot going on at school this week. Wednesday at 10 am is the New Year liturgy, all is welcomed to join. Tuesday we have Lisa Bowes coming in to speak with students about her children's books she has been writing. She use to be a sports broadcaster and now has turned her focus to writing. Please check agenda's for note that went home yesterday in regards to pink shirt day. I will also be sending home this weeks your child's sounds quiz to review and sign and send back.
We are now exploring numbers 1-100 in Math. Students are learning to count from 1-100 and also be counting by 5 and 10. Once we have a good grasp on these two concepts we will introduce counting by 2's. Students are also required to recognize numbers out of order up to 100. Please practice at home, there is a 100 frame in their yellow reading duo-tang.
Here is a link to a website to practice filling in 100 frames:
http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/number-frames/
We are going to wrap up the 5 senses in Science with taste which will be coming in the next couple of weeks. We will be looking at the 4 seasons next.
In English, students will be learning about different sound blends and words families. Each week they will learn a new blend and word family. We are also going to start working on our English writing skills. Please continue to review sight words with your child. we have already started evaluations for second terms report card.
In French, we continue to learn about clothing and are taking a closer look at masculine and feminine words. Please review weekly sight words seeing that they will have an evaluation in the next week on those covered so far. Students will also be required to read a small text in French and answer questions, practicing their French reading at home will help.
In Social Studies, students are learning about their rights and responsibilities. We will take a look at schools from around the world, compare them to our own and think of ways to be more responsible in our community and at school.
We are coming close to the 100day of school. I am wondering if any parents would like to volunteer to guide a center/activity on that day. Last year parents came in and made 100 day monsters with 100 objects. If you are interested please let me know. I will also count the days and get back to you to let you know what day it will be exactly.
I am also looking for some great gluers....I have games made that need to be glued to card stock, if you are interested in helping out please let me know and I will send it home with your child.
Have a great week everyone.
Laurie Anne
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Cheers to 2017!
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas surrounded by family and friends. The island time was great. I got to visit my friends, hang out with my dad, visit Mikes family and eat my dads cooking. YUM, nothing beats it. I am happy to be back though...not happy to be back to the cold and snow!
Thank you all for the lovely gifts that you and your child gave me for Christmas. I truly appreciate all of them.
We had a huge success this year with Turkeys! We were able to purchase 170 turkeys, plus one that was donated by a family in our class to make it a grand total of 171 Turkeys. We also donated 23 Christmas stockings which were all stuffed, along with the remaining goodies that did not make it into a stocking. We also purchases 9 books of transit passes. Thank you for your support, it means a lot to the kids as well as myself! Because of your support and contribution we had a very successful year!
Here are a few pictures from the days leading up to Turkey delivery day.
We have a new student who joined us on Monday. We are happy to welcome Keen to our awesome class. Our class is now up to 23. If you see him our his family be sure to say hello!
Its the month of January and the students are going to learn all about different articles of clothing. We will tie this in with different seasons and months of the year. They are also going to learn a little bit about masculine/feminine, singular, pluralwords. They should be able to recognize masculine and feminine words and use them accordingly when writing their simple sentences. We will work more on writing sentences with correct punctuation (upper case letters, proper spacing and periods at the end of each sentence) Through out the month of January we will also learn about different winter sports and start to talk about Québec's Winter carnival near the end of the month. Please review sounds of the week with your child at home. So far in class we have covered the following:
oi (oiseau) ou ( loup) on ( cochon) au (auto) eau ( bateau) in ( lapin) eu ( jeu) ui (pluie)
ph- (photo) un (brun) qu (qui) ch- (chien) an ( maman) en ( enfant) am (lampe) em (temps)
Here are some of the vocabulary your child will be learning.
In class, we will start guided reading on a more regular basis. During this time I will work with small groups of students to work on reading strategies. The other students will be in literacy centers, which will have a focus on topics already cover or are presently learning. We have also started in class our "Je parle en francais" chart. Each student has one on their desk and are encouraged to speak French with Madame or their peers. When they attempt to speak French or are heard chatting in French they will get a sticker for their chart. Once the chart is full, which has 14 squares, they can cash in their stickers for a prize. They will take the stickers off and start again. Since starting this on Monday, there are two students who are 1 sticker away from winning. Everyone is very excited.
In Math, we continue to work on numbers 0-20. We have started to count to 50 in French and are working on skip counting by 5 and 10. You can practice at home the concepts plus (more), moins (less) autant que (same) egal a (equals to). PLease also be sure to practice counting in French by 5's and 10's as well as 0-50 or higher if possible.
In English, we have been reviewing vowel sounds long and short. We reviewed all consonants and have been learning about bossy e or magic e. For those of you who don't know about bossy e, it makes the vowels say its name in words. (tap-tape, kit-kite, cut-cute) We will also be looking at beginning, middle and ending sounds in words.
We have library on Thursday, please send books back. Special lunch is on Wednesday. Next week in Gym students will be having hip hop dance. They always love this. Please return the pink A books in your childs reading package for Monday to be switched out with a new one. You will also get a tic tac toe game board in the packages. This is a fun way to practice sight words or vocab found in books or ones that we are learning in class. With a dry erase you write words in all the spaces and play as you normal would play tic tac toe, but you must read the word correctly to be able to put your X or O.
Thank you all for the lovely gifts that you and your child gave me for Christmas. I truly appreciate all of them.
We had a huge success this year with Turkeys! We were able to purchase 170 turkeys, plus one that was donated by a family in our class to make it a grand total of 171 Turkeys. We also donated 23 Christmas stockings which were all stuffed, along with the remaining goodies that did not make it into a stocking. We also purchases 9 books of transit passes. Thank you for your support, it means a lot to the kids as well as myself! Because of your support and contribution we had a very successful year!
Here are a few pictures from the days leading up to Turkey delivery day.
Bravo!!!
We have a new student who joined us on Monday. We are happy to welcome Keen to our awesome class. Our class is now up to 23. If you see him our his family be sure to say hello!
Its the month of January and the students are going to learn all about different articles of clothing. We will tie this in with different seasons and months of the year. They are also going to learn a little bit about masculine/feminine, singular, pluralwords. They should be able to recognize masculine and feminine words and use them accordingly when writing their simple sentences. We will work more on writing sentences with correct punctuation (upper case letters, proper spacing and periods at the end of each sentence) Through out the month of January we will also learn about different winter sports and start to talk about Québec's Winter carnival near the end of the month. Please review sounds of the week with your child at home. So far in class we have covered the following:
oi (oiseau) ou ( loup) on ( cochon) au (auto) eau ( bateau) in ( lapin) eu ( jeu) ui (pluie)
ph- (photo) un (brun) qu (qui) ch- (chien) an ( maman) en ( enfant) am (lampe) em (temps)
Here are some of the vocabulary your child will be learning.
Please also review the following body parts with your child. They will be required to take a short quiz in the following weeks.
In class, we will start guided reading on a more regular basis. During this time I will work with small groups of students to work on reading strategies. The other students will be in literacy centers, which will have a focus on topics already cover or are presently learning. We have also started in class our "Je parle en francais" chart. Each student has one on their desk and are encouraged to speak French with Madame or their peers. When they attempt to speak French or are heard chatting in French they will get a sticker for their chart. Once the chart is full, which has 14 squares, they can cash in their stickers for a prize. They will take the stickers off and start again. Since starting this on Monday, there are two students who are 1 sticker away from winning. Everyone is very excited.
In Math, we continue to work on numbers 0-20. We have started to count to 50 in French and are working on skip counting by 5 and 10. You can practice at home the concepts plus (more), moins (less) autant que (same) egal a (equals to). PLease also be sure to practice counting in French by 5's and 10's as well as 0-50 or higher if possible.
In English, we have been reviewing vowel sounds long and short. We reviewed all consonants and have been learning about bossy e or magic e. For those of you who don't know about bossy e, it makes the vowels say its name in words. (tap-tape, kit-kite, cut-cute) We will also be looking at beginning, middle and ending sounds in words.
We have library on Thursday, please send books back. Special lunch is on Wednesday. Next week in Gym students will be having hip hop dance. They always love this. Please return the pink A books in your childs reading package for Monday to be switched out with a new one. You will also get a tic tac toe game board in the packages. This is a fun way to practice sight words or vocab found in books or ones that we are learning in class. With a dry erase you write words in all the spaces and play as you normal would play tic tac toe, but you must read the word correctly to be able to put your X or O.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Count begins
Hi everyone,
Thanks for all your support at the Christmas concert last week. A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped out. We have collected almost $2000.00! I still have to go out and buy over 800 more candy canes to fill all the class orders. Once I have them all bought I will get the turkeys. I will let you know when we are picking them up if you want to join us load the truck. Its always great to see the students hold the turkeys. They are soo proud of themselves.
If you have any other items for the Christmas stockings please send them in by Wednesday. Thank you again for your support on this pay it forward project. I went to dollarama and bought a bunch of Christmas stockings to fill.....my sewing machine idea didn't pan out for us to actually make the stockings ourselves....maybe next year. So far we have 10 filled stockings and a lot more to fill with items.
Tuesday is ginger bread house making day for those students who have signed up to help support our sister school breakfast program,. Students will head to the gym at 11 am and work in small groups to build their houses. Once finished they can purchase any houses for a donation. All proceeds will go to the program.
Sandwich day is on Wednesday. Students will work together to make as many sandwiches throughout the day. We will be making them together with our BFG (Big family champions). Our groups will go in the morning. If you have not filled out the green permission form yet please do so and send it in.
On Thursday the 15th we will have the felting lady who will be joining us to make a Christmas art project. We are in need of one more volunteer to join us that day, if you are available and want to join please let us know. Students will be using special felting needles. If you could have a chat with your child prior about needle safety that will help us out on Thursday.
I cannot believe next week is the last week before Christmas holidays....I am not ready but soo ready at the same time. I need to get some shopping done. We will celebrate together on Wednesday December 21. I will not be at school the 22nd Mme Joanne will be here for me, seeing that I will be making me way east already. The last couple of days before break we like to dress up and celebrate the season.
Monday December 19- Students can dress as Christmas elves
Tuesday December 20- Students can dress as Christmas presents
Wednesday December 21- Students can dress as Santa, Mrs. Claus or a Christmas tree
Thursday December 22- Its spirit day for the whole school, students are asked to wear PJ's
There is a liturgy on December 20th you are welcome to join.
I will be sending home a reading challenge for the students to fill out over the holidays. It is encouraged that you read but I totally get it if you cant make that happen ;) If you are to participate please send it back in the new year.
I believe that is all for this week. Stay warm.
Thanks for all your support at the Christmas concert last week. A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped out. We have collected almost $2000.00! I still have to go out and buy over 800 more candy canes to fill all the class orders. Once I have them all bought I will get the turkeys. I will let you know when we are picking them up if you want to join us load the truck. Its always great to see the students hold the turkeys. They are soo proud of themselves.
If you have any other items for the Christmas stockings please send them in by Wednesday. Thank you again for your support on this pay it forward project. I went to dollarama and bought a bunch of Christmas stockings to fill.....my sewing machine idea didn't pan out for us to actually make the stockings ourselves....maybe next year. So far we have 10 filled stockings and a lot more to fill with items.
Tuesday is ginger bread house making day for those students who have signed up to help support our sister school breakfast program,. Students will head to the gym at 11 am and work in small groups to build their houses. Once finished they can purchase any houses for a donation. All proceeds will go to the program.
Sandwich day is on Wednesday. Students will work together to make as many sandwiches throughout the day. We will be making them together with our BFG (Big family champions). Our groups will go in the morning. If you have not filled out the green permission form yet please do so and send it in.
On Thursday the 15th we will have the felting lady who will be joining us to make a Christmas art project. We are in need of one more volunteer to join us that day, if you are available and want to join please let us know. Students will be using special felting needles. If you could have a chat with your child prior about needle safety that will help us out on Thursday.
I cannot believe next week is the last week before Christmas holidays....I am not ready but soo ready at the same time. I need to get some shopping done. We will celebrate together on Wednesday December 21. I will not be at school the 22nd Mme Joanne will be here for me, seeing that I will be making me way east already. The last couple of days before break we like to dress up and celebrate the season.
Monday December 19- Students can dress as Christmas elves
Tuesday December 20- Students can dress as Christmas presents
Wednesday December 21- Students can dress as Santa, Mrs. Claus or a Christmas tree
Thursday December 22- Its spirit day for the whole school, students are asked to wear PJ's
There is a liturgy on December 20th you are welcome to join.
I will be sending home a reading challenge for the students to fill out over the holidays. It is encouraged that you read but I totally get it if you cant make that happen ;) If you are to participate please send it back in the new year.
I believe that is all for this week. Stay warm.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Good bye November. Hello December!
Hi everyone,
Wishing you all a happy week. Enjoy the last week of November and let the festivities begin for December.
*** ATTENTION: If any of you spy Allan brand candy canes anywhere please let me know ASAP. These are the brand that we usually sell but have been hard to find. They are nut free, dairy free, gluten free, egg free and so on!
I am looking for volunteers to sell candy canes before and after the Christmas concert. The concert is on December 8th at St. Michael's Church. It will start at 6:30, if you could be there to sell at 6:15 that would be great. The Choir students will sing before hand...not sure of the time yet. Ill let you know once I find out more. If you could let me know or our parent rep Wendy know that would great.
The last week of school before Christmas I am hoping to have some parent volunteers come in and read some of their favorite Christmas stories. If you are interested please let me know.
Scholastics are due Thursday December 1. If you wish to keep them a secret, just put a little note on it so I will know. I will email you once they come in.
Parent Teacher's are Thursday Dec 1 and Friday Dec 2. Please be sure to sign up for a time only line. You will find in your child's report a sheet explaining how to do so. During parent teachers there will be a book fair in the library.
Please be sure to sign the report card envelop and send it back. We re-use them for all three terms.
We had a big week of donation for the Turkey drive! Also stocking stuffers are starting to come in as well as full socks! Its great to see and the kids are excited. We went through all the items in one sock and it was interesting to see them explain why they thought those items where important to the client who will receive them. We have also started to talk about a need and a want in regards to the items in the Christmas stockings. We will also be starting Christmas cards for the D.I as well as for seniors.
On Tuesday we have a parent volunteer coming in to do a Christmas craft with our students. She will be making Christmas pins with us. One will be for the students and the other will be attached to our Christmas cards for seniors as a little gift. If anyone else wishes to come in before Christmas whether to do a craft, make Christmas cookies aka ginger breads or anything else in between feel free to let me. We love having our parents come into our class.
This week in French, we continue to review all letters of the alphabet. We are playing with letter tiles and putting these letters together to make words. We are also looking at how many words we can hear in a sentence. Students are associating the words with bingo chips. (Je mange une pomme= has 4 words) We will then do words that have more than one syllable. They find this tricky and often mix up the syllables for new words. This is something you can practice at home.
In Math, we keep working on numbers 0-20 and the different ways to represent these numbers. We are also playing a matching game, students have numbers and written numbers up to 20 that they have to match. Once we practice a bit in class I will send this home for you to keep practicing. At this time students should start to understand the concept 1 more than, 2 more than, 1 less than, 2 less than. This is something you can help them out with by simply practicing in the car.
Science this week we will continue to focus on our eye sight. We will do a couple of cool experiments. Students will also learn the difference between predators and pray animals based on their eye positions.
Please be sure to practice our Christmas song. There is one part at the beginning that is causing some problems. They are saying "save some Christmas cheer" instead. Once we get the words, we will add actions.
Keep Christmas with you
All through the year,
When Christmas is over,
*You can keep it near.*
Think of this Christmas day
When Christmas is far away.
That's all for this week. Be sure to sign up for a time on Thursday or Friday to come chat with me. We have no school on Friday because of interviews. Have a great week. See you soon
Laurie Anne :)
Wishing you all a happy week. Enjoy the last week of November and let the festivities begin for December.
*** ATTENTION: If any of you spy Allan brand candy canes anywhere please let me know ASAP. These are the brand that we usually sell but have been hard to find. They are nut free, dairy free, gluten free, egg free and so on!
I am looking for volunteers to sell candy canes before and after the Christmas concert. The concert is on December 8th at St. Michael's Church. It will start at 6:30, if you could be there to sell at 6:15 that would be great. The Choir students will sing before hand...not sure of the time yet. Ill let you know once I find out more. If you could let me know or our parent rep Wendy know that would great.
The last week of school before Christmas I am hoping to have some parent volunteers come in and read some of their favorite Christmas stories. If you are interested please let me know.
Scholastics are due Thursday December 1. If you wish to keep them a secret, just put a little note on it so I will know. I will email you once they come in.
Parent Teacher's are Thursday Dec 1 and Friday Dec 2. Please be sure to sign up for a time only line. You will find in your child's report a sheet explaining how to do so. During parent teachers there will be a book fair in the library.
Please be sure to sign the report card envelop and send it back. We re-use them for all three terms.
We had a big week of donation for the Turkey drive! Also stocking stuffers are starting to come in as well as full socks! Its great to see and the kids are excited. We went through all the items in one sock and it was interesting to see them explain why they thought those items where important to the client who will receive them. We have also started to talk about a need and a want in regards to the items in the Christmas stockings. We will also be starting Christmas cards for the D.I as well as for seniors.
On Tuesday we have a parent volunteer coming in to do a Christmas craft with our students. She will be making Christmas pins with us. One will be for the students and the other will be attached to our Christmas cards for seniors as a little gift. If anyone else wishes to come in before Christmas whether to do a craft, make Christmas cookies aka ginger breads or anything else in between feel free to let me. We love having our parents come into our class.
This week in French, we continue to review all letters of the alphabet. We are playing with letter tiles and putting these letters together to make words. We are also looking at how many words we can hear in a sentence. Students are associating the words with bingo chips. (Je mange une pomme= has 4 words) We will then do words that have more than one syllable. They find this tricky and often mix up the syllables for new words. This is something you can practice at home.
In Math, we keep working on numbers 0-20 and the different ways to represent these numbers. We are also playing a matching game, students have numbers and written numbers up to 20 that they have to match. Once we practice a bit in class I will send this home for you to keep practicing. At this time students should start to understand the concept 1 more than, 2 more than, 1 less than, 2 less than. This is something you can help them out with by simply practicing in the car.
Science this week we will continue to focus on our eye sight. We will do a couple of cool experiments. Students will also learn the difference between predators and pray animals based on their eye positions.
Please be sure to practice our Christmas song. There is one part at the beginning that is causing some problems. They are saying "save some Christmas cheer" instead. Once we get the words, we will add actions.
Keep Christmas with you
All through the year,
When Christmas is over,
*You can keep it near.*
Think of this Christmas day
When Christmas is far away.
That's all for this week. Be sure to sign up for a time on Thursday or Friday to come chat with me. We have no school on Friday because of interviews. Have a great week. See you soon
Laurie Anne :)
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Goble Goble!
Hi everyone,
A huge thank you to those who have started helping their child raise money for Turkey's. We have had some generous donations and the smiles on your children's faces when they come into class and see the box grow is priceless! One boy gave me $5 and told me he had to vacuum his WHOLE house to get it! Haha Another girl told me she looked under the couch cushions and found $2...she assured me she asked if it was OK to take to school and give! Another little boy brought back bottles and with his donation I am sure we can get at least 3 turkeys.
Here is the link to the Drop In if you want to learn more. I encourage you to watch the video's on the main page....you might need some Kleenex.... As a class we watched the first one and we had a great conversation about what we saw. Some students wanted to know if the man lives at the drop in and if we could meet him!
http://www.thedi.ca/
"People aren’t born on the street. Nor do lives have to end there. With help, the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre is where some lives begin."
When I read this quote I could hear my dads voice in my head reminding me to see the good in everyone, to remember that some people aren't as lucky as I am, that when you pass someone on the street who is homeless or down and out on their luck to remember I don't know their life story, their struggles, their hopes, their dreams. I must remember that they are someone's brother, father, uncle, mother, sister, aunt, friend and most importantly they are a human being who loves, feels and wants more for themselves if they only had the means. This is one of the many reasons why for the past 7 years I have done the Turkey drive with my students....everyone deserves a Christmas Turkey.
Report cards will be passed out on Friday November 25th. We are not permitted to passed out before that date. Friday is also Sprit day, students are asked to dress up as a twin. They are to find a friend and wear the same thing if possible. If they cannot find a buddy they can come chat with me and we can coordinate something.
In French, we will be starting our weekly messages in class. Students will start to read a short message with sight words and simple sentence structures. It will also review sentence structures covered in class, discuss class topics and themes.
We have also been working on putting two sounds together to make words or nonsense words. Some students are having trouble understanding this concept and would benefit from further practice at home, if possible. The fruits and veggies project is going great. We tried pepperocini peppers the other day....my pick which was hilarious. I was surprised at the amount of students who actually liked them.
In English, we have review colors and have started to play games with the words on our word wall. We have been looking at the number of letters in words, vowels, beginning sounds, rhyming words as well as number of syllables. When practicing sight words these are ideas you can practice with them. I have also sent home a sheet with game ideas to help develop their rhyming skills.
We have been reviewing numbers 0-20, especially 11-20 in French. Some students are mixing up the numbers and are not able to identify them out of sequence. We have also been looking at different ways to represent numbers with bingo chips. For example 5 on one side and 4 on the other make a total of 9.
In Social studies, this week we are looking at the different groups we belong to. Students are becoming aware of the community they belong too, their province and city as well as the country they live in. They would benefit from further discussion of the differences between province and country. If you have time it would be great if you could review these two concepts with your child to help them better understand.
This week in Science we are going to learn about our eyesight, the important role it plays in keep us safe. We will also play some tricks on our eyes by looking at optical illusions.
I have sent home the words to our Christmas song. The link will be attached below. Please help your child learn the lyrics. I cant believe our Christmas concert will be on December 8th, that will be here before we all know it.
Version 1: This is what we have been practicing with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5PEVKuAro
Version 2: I love this one because of the memories it brings me from the great cartoons and movies!...minus Barney...I was never into that show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3kn8On89E
The beginning of Advent is on Sunday November 27th. You will receive a special gift from the school to help you enjoy the events. That will be coming home with your child on Friday.
Don't forget to book your interviews online. We will be meeting on Thursday Dec 1 and Friday Dec 2. On both these days Mme Fiona our librarian will have the book fair set up in the gym for you to view books and other treasures.
Our Scholastic orders are due on Thursday Dec 1. If you wish for me to keep these orders to the side as presents just send me a little note and I will be happy to do so. If you need a little more time to place your order let me know also.
One last question....do any of you know how to sew or own a sewing machine.....?? You are probably thinking of dear what has she thought of now......Let me know:)
Have a great week. Hope to see you all soon.
LA
A huge thank you to those who have started helping their child raise money for Turkey's. We have had some generous donations and the smiles on your children's faces when they come into class and see the box grow is priceless! One boy gave me $5 and told me he had to vacuum his WHOLE house to get it! Haha Another girl told me she looked under the couch cushions and found $2...she assured me she asked if it was OK to take to school and give! Another little boy brought back bottles and with his donation I am sure we can get at least 3 turkeys.
Here is the link to the Drop In if you want to learn more. I encourage you to watch the video's on the main page....you might need some Kleenex.... As a class we watched the first one and we had a great conversation about what we saw. Some students wanted to know if the man lives at the drop in and if we could meet him!
http://www.thedi.ca/
"People aren’t born on the street. Nor do lives have to end there. With help, the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre is where some lives begin."
When I read this quote I could hear my dads voice in my head reminding me to see the good in everyone, to remember that some people aren't as lucky as I am, that when you pass someone on the street who is homeless or down and out on their luck to remember I don't know their life story, their struggles, their hopes, their dreams. I must remember that they are someone's brother, father, uncle, mother, sister, aunt, friend and most importantly they are a human being who loves, feels and wants more for themselves if they only had the means. This is one of the many reasons why for the past 7 years I have done the Turkey drive with my students....everyone deserves a Christmas Turkey.
Report cards will be passed out on Friday November 25th. We are not permitted to passed out before that date. Friday is also Sprit day, students are asked to dress up as a twin. They are to find a friend and wear the same thing if possible. If they cannot find a buddy they can come chat with me and we can coordinate something.
In French, we will be starting our weekly messages in class. Students will start to read a short message with sight words and simple sentence structures. It will also review sentence structures covered in class, discuss class topics and themes.
We have also been working on putting two sounds together to make words or nonsense words. Some students are having trouble understanding this concept and would benefit from further practice at home, if possible. The fruits and veggies project is going great. We tried pepperocini peppers the other day....my pick which was hilarious. I was surprised at the amount of students who actually liked them.
In English, we have review colors and have started to play games with the words on our word wall. We have been looking at the number of letters in words, vowels, beginning sounds, rhyming words as well as number of syllables. When practicing sight words these are ideas you can practice with them. I have also sent home a sheet with game ideas to help develop their rhyming skills.
We have been reviewing numbers 0-20, especially 11-20 in French. Some students are mixing up the numbers and are not able to identify them out of sequence. We have also been looking at different ways to represent numbers with bingo chips. For example 5 on one side and 4 on the other make a total of 9.
In Social studies, this week we are looking at the different groups we belong to. Students are becoming aware of the community they belong too, their province and city as well as the country they live in. They would benefit from further discussion of the differences between province and country. If you have time it would be great if you could review these two concepts with your child to help them better understand.
This week in Science we are going to learn about our eyesight, the important role it plays in keep us safe. We will also play some tricks on our eyes by looking at optical illusions.
I have sent home the words to our Christmas song. The link will be attached below. Please help your child learn the lyrics. I cant believe our Christmas concert will be on December 8th, that will be here before we all know it.
Version 1: This is what we have been practicing with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5PEVKuAro
Version 2: I love this one because of the memories it brings me from the great cartoons and movies!...minus Barney...I was never into that show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3kn8On89E
The beginning of Advent is on Sunday November 27th. You will receive a special gift from the school to help you enjoy the events. That will be coming home with your child on Friday.
Don't forget to book your interviews online. We will be meeting on Thursday Dec 1 and Friday Dec 2. On both these days Mme Fiona our librarian will have the book fair set up in the gym for you to view books and other treasures.
Our Scholastic orders are due on Thursday Dec 1. If you wish for me to keep these orders to the side as presents just send me a little note and I will be happy to do so. If you need a little more time to place your order let me know also.
One last question....do any of you know how to sew or own a sewing machine.....?? You are probably thinking of dear what has she thought of now......Let me know:)
Have a great week. Hope to see you all soon.
LA
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Long time no post! Sorry!
Sorry for the over due post. Hard to believe we are already in the middle of November. This month is going way to fast for me. As you all know with a new month comes a new theme. This months theme is Fruits and veggies. Students will learn the proper French words for fruits/veggies, as well as where they grow, the season they grow. We have already started our project where students get to taste fruits and veggies that are brought in. They are loving it so far! We are also learning about our taste, the different parts of the tongue which is apart of our Science unit for the next couple of weeks.
In French, we are starting to put letter sounds together as well as phonemes. Please be sure to review French letter sounds and names with your child.
In Math, students continue to learn about numbers 1-20 in French. We will be learning the concept 1 de plus (1 more than), 2 de plus (2 more than), 1 de moins ( 1 less than), 2 de moins (2 less than). You can practice this concept at home with your child by rolling a dice, using a deck of cards or counting out objects. To help prepare your child you can start to count by 2,5 and 10 in French with your child.
We will be exploring our different senses in Science, this week we will focus on touch. So far students have learned that our senses are used to protect us from certain dangers. Messages are sent to our brain to help keep us safe and to tell us important information.
In Social Studies, students have been learning how to identify different groups, whether by the clothing they were (uniforms), symbols (maple leaf) language they speak, music and so on. They are encouraged to pay attention to different symbols they see, languages they hear when they are out and about. We will also look at National symbols.
In English, we have started to put sounds together to form new words or nonsense words. We are also paying closer attention to rhyming words we hear in stories. We are also looking at the beginning, middle and ending sounds of words. Please be sure to review English sight words with your child as well as letter and vowel sounds.
Our annual Turkey Drive is just around the corner. Our class will be selling Candy canes at out Christmas concert again this year, which is Dec 8th. I will be looking for volunteers to help sell before and after the concert. If you are interested please let me know. Prior to the Candy cane sales students from my class have done choirs at home, collected bottles and brought in spare change. They are encouraged to this again this year. One boy two years ago sold some of his old toys and donated the money to purchase turkeys. If you are wanting to participate with your child you may send in your spare change and start a choir list right away. We will be collecting the money up until Dec 16.
With the money collected from the candy cane sales we will purchase as many Turkeys as possible which will be donated to the Calgary Drop In Centre again this year. At Christmas the Drop In will see over a 1000 clients. . Last years class purchased 112 turkeys, thanks to our awesome Holy Name community. This will the third time our class has done this Pay it forward project. Our turkeys will be enjoyed on Christmas day and depending on how many we get probably a couple of more times. Our class also will provide Christmas cards that will be put into their clients stockings. If you wish to donate any items for the Christmas Stockings please see the attachment in the email I have sent you.
I believe that is all for now. Have a great week.
Laurie Anne
In French, we are starting to put letter sounds together as well as phonemes. Please be sure to review French letter sounds and names with your child.
In Math, students continue to learn about numbers 1-20 in French. We will be learning the concept 1 de plus (1 more than), 2 de plus (2 more than), 1 de moins ( 1 less than), 2 de moins (2 less than). You can practice this concept at home with your child by rolling a dice, using a deck of cards or counting out objects. To help prepare your child you can start to count by 2,5 and 10 in French with your child.
We will be exploring our different senses in Science, this week we will focus on touch. So far students have learned that our senses are used to protect us from certain dangers. Messages are sent to our brain to help keep us safe and to tell us important information.
In Social Studies, students have been learning how to identify different groups, whether by the clothing they were (uniforms), symbols (maple leaf) language they speak, music and so on. They are encouraged to pay attention to different symbols they see, languages they hear when they are out and about. We will also look at National symbols.
In English, we have started to put sounds together to form new words or nonsense words. We are also paying closer attention to rhyming words we hear in stories. We are also looking at the beginning, middle and ending sounds of words. Please be sure to review English sight words with your child as well as letter and vowel sounds.
Our annual Turkey Drive is just around the corner. Our class will be selling Candy canes at out Christmas concert again this year, which is Dec 8th. I will be looking for volunteers to help sell before and after the concert. If you are interested please let me know. Prior to the Candy cane sales students from my class have done choirs at home, collected bottles and brought in spare change. They are encouraged to this again this year. One boy two years ago sold some of his old toys and donated the money to purchase turkeys. If you are wanting to participate with your child you may send in your spare change and start a choir list right away. We will be collecting the money up until Dec 16.
With the money collected from the candy cane sales we will purchase as many Turkeys as possible which will be donated to the Calgary Drop In Centre again this year. At Christmas the Drop In will see over a 1000 clients. . Last years class purchased 112 turkeys, thanks to our awesome Holy Name community. This will the third time our class has done this Pay it forward project. Our turkeys will be enjoyed on Christmas day and depending on how many we get probably a couple of more times. Our class also will provide Christmas cards that will be put into their clients stockings. If you wish to donate any items for the Christmas Stockings please see the attachment in the email I have sent you.
I believe that is all for now. Have a great week.
Laurie Anne
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Happy Halloween!!
The countdown is on until Halloween!
On Monday we carved pumpkins!! The kids had a great time! They had to estimate how many seeds were in each pumpkin, we observed the shape and size and talked about what kind of faces we wanted to carve on them. They worked together to come up with some great faces.
This week we have a lot planned and a lot to finish up. We are almost done our family tree's and will do a few finishing touches on them. We continue to present our puzzle pieces but for some its a struggle to remember all the details. Its a great idea to practice at home or write little reminders or notes that the child can use to help them out. We have started our haunted house which was a big hit. They quietly worked away and groaned when I told them it was time to clean up!
In Math, the students will get to make a Halloween patterning belt, which should be fun. We are also looking at different ways to represent the same number. Some students are having difficulty with this concept and it is something you can work on at home. For example have your child show you 5 objects. Maybe they line them up side by side, now ask them to show 5 a different way, maybe like on a dice. Point out to them that the number hasn't changed, just the way they placed them.
We are also working an Art project for the Gala, which will be on display the night of the Gala. You can take home your child's art and are encouraged to make a small donation to the school for it.
A final reminder to send in a glass jar by Wednesday so that your child may participate in the Art activity planned. For those of you who already have, thank you!
Next months theme is just around the corner. The students will be learning about fruits and vegetables. This class project is always a huge success for both the parents and the students. It does however involve your corporation and support. I am hoping for another successful year of getting students to try new things with a little positive peer pressure! I have assigned each student a fruit/vegetable to bring into class on a particular day for the month of November. The deal is that the students all must try what is brought in, unless an allergy. It has to touch their tongue! If they want to spit it out they are free to do so, at least they tried it. They then will write in a book whether they liked what they have tried or not. I also have in the back of the mind something techy but I am not sure how it will work out. Ill keep you posted. Once they have finished trying everything on the list, the books are sent home for you to look over. It is an easy way to see what your child likes, so that making snacks/ lunches can be a little easier. It also saves you from trying out pomegranates for example to see if they like them or not. The list will be sent home this week. Feel free to add anything to the list or if you cannot find what you have been give to replace it with something else that is not on the list. Calgary has a lot more options out there than PEI did so I look forward to seeing what you might suggest or bring in. I will take care of the first couple of days. If you are unable to participate that's ok too, just let me know so I can make arrangements to get what is needed for that day. To make our life in grade one easier, we would love it if you sent in the items cut up and prepared for 22 students. Don't worry about napkins I got that covered. Thanks in advance for your support.
We will have our Halloween celebration on Friday afternoon. Students are allowed to wear their Halloween costumes. Please no masks or weapons. If your child's costumes involves make-up please be sure to apply it at home. If you wish to send in a healthy Halloween treat please feel free to do so. We have some fabulous parents who have volunteered their time on Friday afternoon. and we are looking forward to all the fun they have planned for us.
For Fridays lunch we have a parent who will be making the students soup. Please send in a bowl along with a spoon. Here are the ingredients below. You may also want to send in a little something just in case. Only lunch is provided so please send in their snacks.
The soup is from scratch using the following ingredients:
Butternut squash
Celery
Carrots
Leeks
Apples or pear
Apple juice (i juice it myself)
Garlic
Onions
Ground pepper
EVOO
Cilantro on top
Our class will be doing November's Remembrance Day Liturgy on November 10th. Please if you have time practice their song at home. Mme Holly is teaching them the actions to go with the song.
Here are the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4cxee6KE6A&feature=youtu.be (This is the hand signs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazbjWMWHzc
Just a reminder that we do not have school on Monday Oct 31 (Be safe and have fun trick or treating)
No school on Tuesday either- Teachers have their Faith Day.
I hope to see you all dressed in your Halloween best on Friday if you drop off or pick up your child! They have been talking about it in class since last week!
Have a great week end and a safe Halloween!
See you next week.
Laurie Anne
On Monday we carved pumpkins!! The kids had a great time! They had to estimate how many seeds were in each pumpkin, we observed the shape and size and talked about what kind of faces we wanted to carve on them. They worked together to come up with some great faces.
This week we have a lot planned and a lot to finish up. We are almost done our family tree's and will do a few finishing touches on them. We continue to present our puzzle pieces but for some its a struggle to remember all the details. Its a great idea to practice at home or write little reminders or notes that the child can use to help them out. We have started our haunted house which was a big hit. They quietly worked away and groaned when I told them it was time to clean up!
In Math, the students will get to make a Halloween patterning belt, which should be fun. We are also looking at different ways to represent the same number. Some students are having difficulty with this concept and it is something you can work on at home. For example have your child show you 5 objects. Maybe they line them up side by side, now ask them to show 5 a different way, maybe like on a dice. Point out to them that the number hasn't changed, just the way they placed them.
We are also working an Art project for the Gala, which will be on display the night of the Gala. You can take home your child's art and are encouraged to make a small donation to the school for it.
A final reminder to send in a glass jar by Wednesday so that your child may participate in the Art activity planned. For those of you who already have, thank you!
Next months theme is just around the corner. The students will be learning about fruits and vegetables. This class project is always a huge success for both the parents and the students. It does however involve your corporation and support. I am hoping for another successful year of getting students to try new things with a little positive peer pressure! I have assigned each student a fruit/vegetable to bring into class on a particular day for the month of November. The deal is that the students all must try what is brought in, unless an allergy. It has to touch their tongue! If they want to spit it out they are free to do so, at least they tried it. They then will write in a book whether they liked what they have tried or not. I also have in the back of the mind something techy but I am not sure how it will work out. Ill keep you posted. Once they have finished trying everything on the list, the books are sent home for you to look over. It is an easy way to see what your child likes, so that making snacks/ lunches can be a little easier. It also saves you from trying out pomegranates for example to see if they like them or not. The list will be sent home this week. Feel free to add anything to the list or if you cannot find what you have been give to replace it with something else that is not on the list. Calgary has a lot more options out there than PEI did so I look forward to seeing what you might suggest or bring in. I will take care of the first couple of days. If you are unable to participate that's ok too, just let me know so I can make arrangements to get what is needed for that day. To make our life in grade one easier, we would love it if you sent in the items cut up and prepared for 22 students. Don't worry about napkins I got that covered. Thanks in advance for your support.
We will have our Halloween celebration on Friday afternoon. Students are allowed to wear their Halloween costumes. Please no masks or weapons. If your child's costumes involves make-up please be sure to apply it at home. If you wish to send in a healthy Halloween treat please feel free to do so. We have some fabulous parents who have volunteered their time on Friday afternoon. and we are looking forward to all the fun they have planned for us.
For Fridays lunch we have a parent who will be making the students soup. Please send in a bowl along with a spoon. Here are the ingredients below. You may also want to send in a little something just in case. Only lunch is provided so please send in their snacks.
The soup is from scratch using the following ingredients:
Butternut squash
Celery
Carrots
Leeks
Apples or pear
Apple juice (i juice it myself)
Garlic
Onions
Ground pepper
EVOO
Cilantro on top
Our class will be doing November's Remembrance Day Liturgy on November 10th. Please if you have time practice their song at home. Mme Holly is teaching them the actions to go with the song.
Here are the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4cxee6KE6A&feature=youtu.be (This is the hand signs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazbjWMWHzc
Just a reminder that we do not have school on Monday Oct 31 (Be safe and have fun trick or treating)
No school on Tuesday either- Teachers have their Faith Day.
I hope to see you all dressed in your Halloween best on Friday if you drop off or pick up your child! They have been talking about it in class since last week!
Have a great week end and a safe Halloween!
See you next week.
Laurie Anne
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