Discovering through story telling - Nov 23

Another amazing and busy day. Today we had the pleasure of having with us Melody from Teacher’s Pet to teach us about the history, traditions and culture of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada and Alberta. We learned a great deal and had lots of fun. On behalf of the entire class, I want to send out a Giant Thank You to all our volunteers: Sonia (Stephen's Mom), Mary (Max's Mom) and Mme Adrienne Melendy for their incredible patience and amazing enthusiasm.  We would have not been able to do this without YOU!  Thank you! Here are some pictures.

Although we had a fun afternoon, we still worked real hard in the morning.  We continued doing addition, estimation and comparing of large numbers in Math.  We continued working on our Si and La notes in music (combining them.)  We also did a great deal of note taking on les Déterminants in French.  I get the feeling we will soon be able to use that word on a dictée :).

During music we also talked about the songs that we will be performing at the Christmas Concert.  More details around that will be coming soon.  In preparation for Christmas, we also discussed that, in keeping with our environmentally friendly theme, we would like to create a classroom Christmas tree using egg cartons.  The corner has now been prepared.  If you have any dozen egg cartons (or smaller), please don't hesitate to send them to school with your child.  If they can paint it green at home, even better.  We will be painting the ones that are not painted in the school.  Hopefully we will have a lovely Christmas tree just in time for Christmas.  Thank you for your support.

Finally, I have to say that I love it when my students wear with pride what they learn. :)  Nice shirt Xavier.  Wish I had one of those :)

Homework:

- Raz-kids French books (Assignment  Nov 19-23) - due Nov 25

Important Upcoming Dates:

• Friday, November 23
• Progress reports go home
• Scholastic Orders Due

• Monday, November 26
• Healthy Hunger
• Thursday, November 29
• Sammy's Pizza
• Thursday, November 29
• Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
• Friday, November 30
• Parent Teacher Conferences - NO SCHOOL