Bienvenue à l'édition # 4, 16 octobre 2020
Le coin français
It's always so lovely to hear students using simple words and phrases to communicate in french. Students are doing an excellent job of responding in full phrases during attendance and when practicing français intensif.
Our message of the week allows students to practice listening skills and choral reading and speech. Some students are even taking risks to come up to the Smartboard and read some sentence aloud with support or independently. This activity helps them understand how to track words from left to right. This week's message contained some special words. Ask your child to tell about some of the "mots globaux" that were in the message. Parents can also support this learning at home by checking out the "mots globaux" words lists in Google Classroom under the Lecture Tab found under "classwork". Instructions are provided in the material notes on how to proceed.
Les mathématiques
This week, students continued to work through the problem solving checklist as a way of developing their math strategies. They continued to learn and explore patterns, skip counting by 2, 5 and 10 and the role of place value. Take a look at the charts we use to develop our number sense when counting the days of school as well as a few of the problems of the week. Some are open questions and others require a precise answer.
Études sociales
Belonging is an ongoing focus in social studies and students are now learning about "la famille". They are learning key vocabulary and how to use it in a sentence. Ask you child to tell you difference between the words maman and mère & papa and père. Did you know that mami and papi are two terms of endearment used to describe grandma and grandpa in French? You can also say grand-maman and grand-papa! Learning about our families is a fun way to share and create our classroom community. The November oral language project will focus on the family and everyone is looking forward learning and sharing.
We are also very excited about our October oral language projet "Me voici" with presentations starting this week. Please see the schedule below for your child's presentation date.
Scholastic Orders
The mini version of the October Book Club Flyer is coming home today. You can also access a much larger selection of books in English and French by looking at the DigiFlyers for Reading Club and Club de Lecture. Click here Our Class Code is: RC180147. Please order your books by the end of October. You can have them mailed directly to your home. A new flyer will come out each month and your purchases help build our classroom library. Merci!
Library Book Return:
Please return all library books on Monday as we will be visiting the Learning Commons again.
Potpourri
"Oki"! Hello! Students enjoyed a wonderful afternoon in the Coulee with Elder Saa'kokoto and exploring with Mme Ireland. We sat in circle and listened to the wisdom of our Elder as he shared the wonderful colours Na'a paints the land with and the important role of plants as food and medicine across the seasons. Ask you child to share their favourite memory of the Coulee with you.
Il neige!
We also welcomed our first snow of the year on Wednesday! Many thanks to all who sent students to school with the proper clothing for outdoor play. We were able to get outside three times! Thanks for ensuring students are warm, comfortable and prepared for the ever-changing and unexpected weather!
