We then followed it up with some math work on Mathletics. If you have some time, the students are encouraged to work on the Patterns section in Mathletics as we have now moved onto numbers and it would be good to get extra practice in the areas we are working on. All the information to access Mathletics can be found in the Agendas.
After Mathletics we practiced our Christmas song again and I have to say I was impressed how quickly we learned the sign language for the first few lines of the song. As Stephen said: "This will be quite the performance." :) Here's the video again to practice at home too.
Here is the French song as well (Mon beau sapin):
We wrapped up the morning with a little bit of Le Petit Prince and helping out with our Grade 1 buddies. Today we helped with Prodigy and some students were really good with this tool too. :)
The afternoon we started with working on our Social Studies notes on Les Montagnes Rocheuses. We will be wrapping these up this week and we will start sharing our findings as well as talk a little bit more about good note-taking strategies for when we are reading textbooks. It is an important skill that will be useful for many years to come.
Certificats de Bravo!
Today was a special day as well, as during Hymn Sing several students got recognized for the great work they are doing in school and for being excellent role models. Today three got recognized from our class: Scarlet, James and Katerina. Don't forget to congratulate them. I am always keeping an eye out for things that students can be recognized for and I am sure more will be coming in future Hymn Sings :).We also had a visitor in class today who kind of took over my job. His name was Bun-Bun and he became the teacher today. I am not sure he is fit though as he did many silly things including stealing my snack and sitting on my purse. We'll have to reconsider his employment in our class. 😋
You can still book a Parent Teacher Conference through this site if you have not done so already: https://stgerard.schoolsoft.com/login.jsf
Homework:
- Raz-kids French books (Assignment Nov. 26-30) - due Dec. 2
- Math homework - Tuesday - semaine 11 - all due Dec. 3
- English homework - Tuesday - week 5 - all due Dec. 3
(Please tell the kids to check their work as sometimes careless mistakes end up costing more than they should.)
- Practice Words of the week; Mots de la semaine; Phrases en Français for Thursday Nov. 29
- The Christmas Concert will take place on Dec. 18 @ 6:30 PM
- See links to videos above for our songs. I also distributed a sheet with the lyrics to the songs.
Important Upcoming Dates:
- Thursday, November 29
- Sammy's Pizza
- Math Quiz (Mental math additions)
- Spelling Tests (French words, English words and Étude de la phrase)
- Thursday, November 29
- Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
- Friday, November 30
- Parent Teacher Conferences - NO SCHOOL
A MESSAGE FOR SCARLET & KATERINA
FROM ALL OF US ...
