2019, here we go - Jan 7, 2019

And we are off again... 2019 has come faster than I expected, but we are ready.

Today we started things off a bit slower.  Before we did our sharing circle this morning, we had Sonia (Stephen's mom) visit us and talk to us about La Befana (an Italian tradition).  I have added a song about La Befana to the Chansons page.  Check it out.  She also brought some delicious cookies and oranges from her.  Thank you so much for sharing this tradition with us.

Following our sharing circle, which understandably took a tad longer than usual, we read a book for math.  The book is called the Math Curse and it was a really fun way of reminding us all how math is all around us.  We will be doing a bit of subtraction and addition review this week and will also start embarking into multiplication, division and the most loved topic of all, fractions :).

Just before recess we had the delicious cookies and oranges.  Thank you to those who helped handing them out.  We then did some on the spot multiplication knowledge check while waiting to go outside :).

After recess we had Hymn Sing, took some time to write about our vacation in a questionnaire and finally went to read with our Grade 1 buddies.  This time we used books and the students did really well.  Our grade 4 students are really wonderful at helping our little ones read.

After lunch we continued working on our Google Slides for Social studies.  The goal is to finish these soon so we have enough time for the presentations.

We also had Class Representative elections in our class today.  The elections were held by secret nomination and Addison won the confidence of the class to represent Grade 4 in the school council.  Congratulations Addison!  Many other students were selected as well (making the count very close) demonstrating what a great versatile and hard-working group our Grade 4 students are.

We wrapped up our first day back with Gym.  Merci Mr. Lurol pour votre patience!

Homework: 

- Raz-kids French books (Assignment Jan 7 - 11) - due Jan. 14

- Math homework - Monday - semaine 14 - all due Jan. 14 

Upcoming Important Dates:

Tuesday, January 8 (Jour 3)

Wednesday, January 9 (Jour 4)
- Beading club @ lunch
- Learning Commons

Thursday, January 10 (Jour 5)

Friday, January 11 (Jour 6)
- Choir @ lunch
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Monday, January 14 (Jour 1)
- Healthy Hunger
- Homework due (Math, Raz-kids)
- Knitting club @ lunch

Tuesday, January 15 (Jour 2)
- Hymn Sing

Wednesday, January 16 (Jour 3)
- Beading club @ lunch

Thursday, January 17 (Jour 4)
- Learning Commons
- Math Quiz

Friday, January 18 (Jour 5)
- Choir @ lunch
- Spelling tests (English, French)
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Monday, January 21 (Jour 6)
- Healthy Hunger
- Homework due 
- Knitting club @ lunch

Tuesday, January 22 (Jour 1)

Wednesday, January 23 (Jour 2)
- Beading club @ lunch
- Hymn Sing

Thursday, January 24 (Jour 3)
- Learning Commons
- Math Quiz

Friday, January 25 - PD DAY

Bonne nouvelle année!