Upcoming Can Drive

This year, we will again be having our annual can drive. It will begin on Monday, November 23rd,  and will take place until December 11th, 2015.

As a class, we will keep a running total of our cans, which we will count daily (this is a good opportunity for a meaningful counting activity).  We will also use this can drive as an opportunity to have discussions about why we are collecting cans and why we help people in need. Since cans are heavy, you may want to send your child with a single can on a few different occasions instead of having them carry multiple heavy cans at once. Thank you for your support and participation in our charitable endeavour. We will keep you updated on our totals! 

New Parent Communication Tool: Welcome to Seesaw!

Hello parents and guardians!

We have started using a new tool to communicate with parents about student progress.  It is called "Seesaw" and it can be downloaded as an app to your smart phone or accessed online through the website.  Information on how to sign-up and access this new tool has been sent home in your child's mail bag ("sac en plastique") today.

This app and website will allow parents to see snapshots of their student's day. It will provide parents with information about their student's progress and what is being learned in the classroom. It is a great communication tool between home and school and provides parents the opportunity to talk to their child about what they are doing, learning, or creating in the classroom.  Parents will get notifications when something new is posted to their child's Seesaw account. Teachers will also be using Seesaw as a way to send messages and important information/reminders to parents.

We will continue to use our classroom blog as well, as a way to share events that involve the entire class, such as field trips, spirit days, special activities, and new learning strands.

We are very excited to start using Seesaw and hope that this will be a great communication and learning tool for everyone!

Science

As part of our science curriculum we have been doing a few different experiments.  We have been working on predicting what will happen, discussing our observations,and drawing conclusions. 

This is the result of an experiment we finished today.  Ask your child what we did, as well as what happened. 

What we've been working on in Math

In math we have been working on counting to 30 in French, as well as number relationships in French.  Below are a few of the activities we have been doing to help us better read, recognize and count these numbers.  You can help your child at home by pointing out these numbers in your surroundings, discussing numbers in your everyday life (ex. your address, in your phone number, in a story, etc.) and by providing your child with different real life contexts in which to count (ex. number of shoes at the door, forks, knives, spoons, plates, and glasses when setting the table or how many cars or dolls they are playing with).  The more you incorporate discussions about numbers into your everyday lives, the better your child will be able to understand these concepts. 

 

Writing numbers

Number Bingo

 Sequencing what comes first, second, etc.

Playing war with playing cards

 Counting stickers and matching the corresponding number clips

 Here there are pipe cleaners with numbers at the top.  The students counted the corresponding number of beads and attached them to the pipe cleaners.  This is both a good counting activity and a fine motor activity. 

 A number memory game

 Rolling a dice and placing the corresponding number of marbles into the ice cube tray

 Students were counting the  pictures and finding the corresponding words

 These students made telephones with numbers on them.  What a great way to practise writing your numbers!

 

 

 These students are searching for numbers around the room and writing out the corresponding words

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remembrance Day

This week we celebrated Remembrance Day.  We did this by reading a poem where we learned that a poppy is called a "coquelicot", by watching a video about Canada (Found here), and by making poppies of our own.  Ask your child what he/she learned this week about Remembrance Day. 

Scholastics Book Orders

Today, a package of Scholastics Book Orders was sent home with your child.  Scholastics Book Club provides an opportunity for parents to purchase books for their students to read at home.  Every purchase that is made through Scholastics helps support the purchase of resources for your student's classroom.  Details about a new "Parents Pay Online" feature was also sent home.  If you are interested in placing an order, please send the order forms (at the back of each individual catalogue) back to school no later than November 19, 2015.  Please ensure your child's name is indicated on the order form for every catalogue that you are ordering from.  If you choose to pay by cheque instead of paying online, please make your cheque payable to Scholastic Canada and please note that we cannot accept cash. 

 

Thank-you for your support with our Scholastics Book Club!

Our Blog is BACK!

Hello parents and guardians!

 

Our blog is back!  For parents who are new to our blog, on the site you will find important dates, helpful web sites for the French Immersion Program, field trip information, and pictures of students learning, having fun, as well as much more. Please review this blog on a regular basis with your child as it is an important communication tool between home and school. We will update this site regularly with important information, unless technical issues keep us from doing so.

 

We hope you enjoy seeing what we are doing at school and we hope that you can use this blog as a conversation starter when discussing school with your child. 

You can ask them what they were doing in the photos, what they learned from a given activity and if they had fun!  Feel free to write to us with questions or comments regarding the blog.  We love to hear your feedback!

Don't forget to sign up for email alerts by adding your email address to the tab on the right.  You will receive an email when a new post goes up.  This is an automatic email so we will not have access to your email address if you choose to register. 

We are looking forward to a fantastic year of inquiry, discovery, learning, and growth.