Carnaval Tomorrow!!! - Jan 31, 2019

Excitement is building for Carnaval :).  We are all looking forward to an amazing day tomorrow. 

Here's the schedule for our field trip tomorrow:

10:45am – Bus will take us to Great West Productions Sugar Shack near Calaway Park for arrival at 11:30am.

11:30 – 2pm – programming and lunch is provided by the Great West team.

Return to school by 3pm.

An email has been sent with more details.  Please make sure to read it.
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In the meantime we continued working hard.  In Math, we continued with our multiplications and today we incorporated it with art once more after our math quiz.  We created beautiful multiplication flowers that not only helped us practice our facts one more time but also helped us learn a few art skills (i.e. folding paper in such a way as to be able to cut a flower with six petals, changing a rectangle to a square, and working with patterns.)  Here's what the classroom looked like during recess and here's the finished product.

In Music we became composers this week.  We not only learned real well how to play two different versions of Hot Cross Buns, but we also learned how to write our very own version.  Through doing this we learned about beat, rhythm, and sound.  We also learned about repeated patterns and what makes a song nice to listen to.  We even sampled a little bit of Mozart to help inspire us.  Here's a good link for many of his masterpieces.

In French we used an online tool to learn the basics about verbs.  We also played a game where we had to find the verb among many other words.  Finally, we worked in small teams to identify and sort a large selection of words into nouns (common and proper), adjectives and verbs.  As we continue to dive into using all these different types of words in our sentences, we are also working on our conjugations and on building our vocabulary.    

We also continued to work on Zero Heroes and have now sent home our first mission.  Please help us complete these missions.  The teams also created drawings of the things that bring them joy other than objects or products you can buy. Here's a sampling of the things that bring us joys.

Hard to believe but that's a wrap not only for this week but for January already.  February, we are ready for you. :)

Homework: 

- Raz-kids French books (Assignment Jan 28 - Feb 1) - due Feb. 4 

- Math homework - semaine 17 - all due Feb. 4

Upcoming Important Dates:
Friday, Feb. 1 - Carnaval - Field Trip (All day @ Great West Productions Sugar Shack near Calaway Park)

LOOKING AHEAD:

- February 14-15 - PD Days 
- February 18 - Family Day 

Have a "sweet" evening!

An exciting week ahead - Jan 28, 2019

We started this week with lots of excitement as Friday we are off on a field trip to celebrate the Carnaval de Québec (or du Bonhomme de Neige).  Field trip forms have been sent home, please sign and return ASAP as the field trip is taking place on Friday Feb 1.

Today in Math, we continued with our multiplications and looking at strategies to help us do the math in our heads.  Today we explored breaking apart one of the factors to simpler factors and then adding back the results in the end.  It takes some practice to get these right but once these become engraved we will use them again and again as they truly help make life easier.

In French we did our journal entries today on our favourite movies.  We have also established new firm ground rules about only talking in French in class or to Madame unless she is teaching English or Religion.  Madame is no longer able to translate :) and now everyone must do that themselves.  We also use make good use of our dictionaries this way to help us when we are stuck.  

Today we also continued our work on Zero Heroes and have played a Game Show.  We now have a scoreboard set up and are learning a great deal, while also doing a good review, on the topic of waste and waste management.  We also got to continue reading Wonder.  Congrats to Stephen and Max for the great reading they did today.  We have recreated our readers' list and will hopefully wrap up the book real soon.

Homework: 

- Raz-kids French books (Assignment Jan 28 - Feb 1) - due Feb. 4 

- Math homework - semaine 17 - all due Feb. 4 (WILL BE HANDED OUT TOMORROW)

- RETURN FIELD TRIP FORMS!

- Check out spelling words: French, English, French Sentences

Upcoming Important Dates:
Tuesday, January 29 (Jour 5)

Wednesday, January 30 (Jour 6)
- Beading club @ lunch

Thursday, January 31 (Jour 1)
- Math Quiz / Spelling tests

Friday, Feb. 1 - Carnaval - Field Trip (All day @ Great West Productions Sugar Shack near Calaway Park)

LOOKING AHEAD:

- February 14-15 - PD Days 
- February 18 - Family Day 

Have a beautiful evening!

A short but engaging week - Jan 24, 2019

Presentations, presentations, presentations... oh and... PD DAY TOMORROW!!!

Math:
This week in math we continued working on multiplication and we continued looking at different ways of noticing the patterns and even incorporating a bit of art into it.  We used some Waldorf inspired multiplication clock circles and created some unique looking patterns that should help us remember our multiplication table better.  Now that we have created them, we will start using them in our future lessons.

French:
In French we worked on finishing our "signes orthographiques", did partner reading and individual reading using Raz-kids.  For some reason two of the books I assigned did not show up this week so the students only had three books.  I will be fixing the glitch for next week so we can continue to make good progress.  I am also planning on starting a new book study with the students shortly.

English:
In English we also did some reading but we most importantly started a new program that not only will allow us to use our English skills but also refocus our attention on the Waste and our World subject we started the year with.  Each of the students has been assigned to a group and they will be working on completing missions to become Zero Heroes as Zero Hero Super Agents. 
Ask your child what's a Zero Hero.

We did not get much chance to read Wonder this week but we will pick it up again next week.  I am also using the book "Mr. Browne's Precepts" as daily inspiration but also as a Bonus on our English spelling tests now.  I do not post these on the blog, but I do write them on the whiteboard in class.

Art / Music:
We continued practicing our music this week and we can now play two different versions of Hot Cross Buns.  We are now getting ready to write our own versions.  Super excited!

Social Studies
All the groups presented their presentations on each region of Alberta and we will now be moving onto learning a little bit more about Alberta's population including its Indigenous history. 

Homework: 

- Raz-kids French books (Assignment Jan 21 - 25) - due Jan. 28

- Math homework - semaine 16 - all due Jan. 28

Upcoming Important Dates:

Monday, January 28 (Jour 4)
- Homework due
- Learning Commons
- Healthy Hunger 
- Knitting club @ lunch

Tuesday, January 29 (Jour 5)

Wednesday, January 30 (Jour 6)
- Beading club @ lunch

Thursday, January 31 (Jour 1)
- Math Quiz / Spelling tests

Friday, Feb. 1 - Carnaval - Field Trip (All day @ Great West Productions Sugar Shack near Calaway Park)

LOOKING AHEAD:

- February 14-15 - PD Days 
- February 18 - Family Day 

Have a wonderful weekend!