Friday, April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020


April 3, 2020
Hello Parents and Students,
An average of five hours per week of at home learning opportunities, as directed by Alberta Education (https://www.alberta.ca/student-learning-during-covid-19.aspx) will now be offered remotely using Google Classroom. Please refer to the School Messenger email for details and log in information that was sent to all families today.
The blog will not be updated after today.
See you in the virtual Google Classroom!
Mme Liska Harbinson
elharbinson@cbe.ab.ca

Friday, March 13, 2020

A busy Friday

A quick and busy day today! We played a literacy game this morning with a partner. It involved dice, a partner, a game board and many words of the week. Ask me what it was about. We also played a new math game involving several dice and a partner, had dance with Ajay and finished some work from the week. Ask me what we movement break we did instead of heading outside.

A reminder now that Wednesday next week is library day.

Monday, March 9, 2020

A lot of French goals reached!

A great start to the week - many French goals were reached today and several students went home, having completed their goal of speaking with their peers. Mme felt so proud when another teacher commented today on how well they were speaking in French! Today, we went to the library. We learned why 10 is so special (ask me why and how I can use 10 if I'm trying to add 9 to a number (9+6 can be changed to 10+5)). This afternoon, some of us made a puzzle up to 100, worked on our 100 words or played a game reading words with a friend. Our outside time in Science was pushed back as we needed to have an emergency meeting on stealing. Please talk to me about what I learned from that conversation.
A note from Mme: field trip forms went home today for our April 6th field trip to Fort Calgary. Please return by March 19th.

Friday, March 6, 2020

Monday is Library Day

Today, we had a great City of Calgary presentation on what makes up a city and community. We were able to add drawings to the white board to show what Calgary started as and has now become. We also had dance with Ajay. We are looking forward to showing you our dance on Monday, March 16th! The rest of the day was simply finishing work from the week and having some free time.

Please return library books in their plastic bag on Monday.







Thursday, March 5, 2020

A great day!

Wow! Mme has been so impressed with how much French is being spoken in the class these days - bravo à nous! We continued working on our 100 mots this morning as well as working a math problem using a balance. Given 4 numbers, how do we figure out how to balance the scale? For ex.: 2, 4, 3, 1.  Using blocks and/or a scale, we were able to determine that 2+3 = 4+1.  We had a Social Studies talk on community groups that we belong to. Please talk to me about which one I'd like to talk about with my class. In Science, we had some great conversations about winter: we even heard that one way winter affects us that there is often more accidents on the road due to slippery road conditions. Great scientific thinking! Finally, we finished off our day with dance with Ajay and music. Une bonne journée!

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Hot lunch tomorrow

Today, we continued to work on our 100 words. Ask me what words 21-30 are! We also played a math game, wrote in our journals, had dance with Ajay, wrote strategies for our goals and played a literacy game this morning. It involved the words of the week and making boxes. Ask me about it!

Notes from Mme: tomorrow is hot lunch and library day is on Monday. Mme Brinson had sent home an email a while back about the Marion Carson School presentation on "Taming Anxiety Gremlins" that is happening tomorrow evening from 6.30-8.30. I went to it a couple of years back and found it very informative with some great ideas.















Tuesday, March 3, 2020

mardi le 3 mars 2020


Today, we:
-talked about Growth Mindset
-talked about winter in Science, watched a video talking about it and drew some things that change from winter to spring (ask me what I drew!)
-"made 10" in math (ask me about the rainbow rule if I haven't explained it to you yet!)
-went to "la musique"







Monday, March 2, 2020

2 special visitors shared their knowledge with us today!

Today, we were fortunate enough to have two special visitors: Saa'kokoto and Ajay from Sound Kreations! Ask me about the stories about the bear at winter that Saa'kokoto told us and what we did with Ajay. We also have a new seating arrangement and calendar for March. Ask me why we coloured in a rainbow for Math and what it has to do with addition. We also finished some Science work on Winter and some of us worked on our snowmen scarves.

Below the photos are our words of the week. The March newsletter is coming out shortly.




Dear Parents/Guardians:                                   
                   
We will be focusing on these four words this week in our literacy activities.  Please review them with your child. Merci beaucoup!

Please review the following words: le, la, les, un, une, des, il, elle, je, mon, ma, mes, ton, ta, tes, son, sa, ses, voici, est, j’ai, et, c’est, tu, il  y a, je suis, très, ami, sur, avec, le chat, chez,
la vache, toi, moi, je vois

Word Work #13 for the week of:
March 2nd  – 6th, 2020
(High Frequency Words – Mots de haute fréquence)

pour
J’ai un cadeau pour toi.



sous
Le crayon est sous le pupitre.

rouge
Ma chemise est rouge.

*ou
i.e. C’est un hibou brun.


pour


sous

rouge


   *ou



Friday, February 28, 2020

100 French words

We started a book yesterday with the 100 words we've learned so far this year! Ask me what words I wrote yesterday and which ones I wrote today. The rest of the day was taken up by the large amount of unfinished work, watching a special presentation our buddy class did (ask me about my favourite part; hint: a reader's theatre presentation on a book by Robert Munsch) and a lockdown. We did such a great job in the lockdown - Mme was really proud of us!!














Wednesday, February 26, 2020

A sea of pink!

There were many pink shirts in the classroom today! We had a great discussion with Mme this morning about peer conflict and bullying. Ask me if I remember what criteria bullying needs to meet to be considered bullying (repetitive, intentionally hurtful, and a power imbalance (last one is a tough concept!)). We had centres today; one of them was simply cleaning our desks. ;) We also were fortunate enough to have more help with making our bonhomme de neige. Ask me what mine looks like! We went to library today as well.







Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Scholastic Forms Home Today - pls return by Friday

Today, we found the sound 'oi' in various words. We worked on adding doubles in math as well as the math talk of "The sum is 15. What is the question?" (5+5+5, 10+5, 0+15, etc.) Ask me what my answer was. We also went to gym and music today. We read a book called  "Sois Toi Même" by Todd Parr. We finished Friendology as well today. Ask me to finish the sentence: "No friendship is _____." and why this is important to remember.

Reminder from Mme Harbinson that tomorrow is library day and Pink Shirt Day.





Monday, February 24, 2020

New tracking system for French

We had a great pyjama day celebrating the French we've been learning in class. We even got to watch a bit of Toupie et Binou (a great way to increase our French knowledge is listening to short episodes in French). We have started a new system where once we get 10 signatures from Mme on a sticky, we get to bring it home for our parents. We have a new sound today! The words of the week have gone home today in our pochettes bleues. We also had math, gym, journal time and buddies today. Ask me what I worked hard at today!
Reminders from Mme: Wednesday is library day AND pink shirt day.

Friday, February 21, 2020

A great Friday!

Wow! We had truly a great day. Mme (and we) said that it was a huge improvement to yesterday! Bravo moi!
Today, we finished more of our 100s centres, had music and finished some work from the week. 







Thursday, February 20, 2020

100s day centres

Today, we did centres celebrating our 100th day of school. We did art with our 100s cutouts (thank you parent volunteers for cutting at home!), we pieced together a 100s chart, we counted out Fruit Loops and made necklaces (only for decoration, not to eat we were told - unless parents choose otherwise, of course), we built with 100 cups, we found 100 numbers out of order, and many more. We will finish the rest tomorrow (hopefully!).
We also got a new sound of the week today - ask me what it is and a word with it in it. Finally, we had music. In music and in our class, we needed to have a discussion around behaviour expectations. This includes those times when Mme is not around, such as lunch hour and recess. It is more challenging to monitor our own behaviour during these times but Mme believes we truly can do it. Additionally, we all agreed that we would try another week of bringing in items from home to play with at recess if we choose but that if Mme continues to see them during our learning time, we will need to keep them at home.
Following our are words of the week. Mme's substitute teacher forgot to introduce them so see if I can read them as I'm seeing them for the first time.

Dear Parents/Guardians:
We will be focusing on these three words this week in our literacy activities.  Please review them with your child. Merci beaucoup!

Please review the following words: le, la, les, un, une, des, il, elle, je, mon, ma, mes, ton, ta, tes, son, sa, ses, voici, est, j’ai, et, c’est, tu, il  y a, je suis, très

Word Work #10 for the week of: 
January 27th  – 30th, 2020
(High Frequency Words – Mots de haute fréquence)

ami
Mon Trevor est mon ami.

sur 
Il  y a une araignée sur la table!

avec
Je joue avec mes amis.



ami

sur

avec









Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Carnaval + Valentine's Day = F-U-N!

What a great day! Mme isn't sure whether we enjoyed "les courses en canot" or handing out Valentine's cards more. Either way, it was a very fun day! In the morning, we read with another class. We had all been given the same visual prompt for Carnaval and we were listening to what each other wrote to describe the image. Ask me what mine and my partner's was. Bonhomme came and we got a delicious French collation. After, we did some learning centres centred on Valentine's and Carnaval.

Mme will be away Tuesday and Wednesday so no need to send in home reading or check the blog.
Have a great long weekend. A reminder that next Thursday is hot lunch.