New French sound today!

Ask me what our new sound is and which three letters make this sound! We went to the library today and most of us got out 2 new books. If I forgot them at home, I can still bring them in and get new ones tomorrow or Thursday. We have gym tomorrow if I want to wear something for gymnastics. In math, we started addition and practiced some addition stories. Ask me what this is! We did centres time where Mme reviewed reading strategies with all students. Finally, this afternoon consisted of a lot of art! Painting, tracing, cutting and gluing! Ask me about it!

Library day tomorrow - please return books in the library bag

A few notes from Mme: Following today's post are the words of the week. Please review these at home with your child two to three times during the week. These are the high frequency words they will see in their reading and the more they read them at school and at home, the easier they will become.
We are unfortunately unable to start our home reading today. There seems to be a discrepancy between the number of leveled books in the Grade One classrooms and we are meeting as a team this week to divide up the books more equally. Stay tuned...
Scholastic orders are due on Wednesday. If you would like to order something, please send it in with money or order it online.
Yearbook sales are open today for two weeks. Please order yours through your PowerSchool account.

Today, we made tuques for our bonhomme de neige! Ask me what colours I used and which pattern. I should be able to tell you both in French. In math, we did a mitten problem of the week. We also had gym and music and looked at "eu" in French language arts. Ask me one word with "eu" in it. (Hint: there are two numbers, two body parts, a colour and two emotions to name.)

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

Word Work #4 for the week of: 

January 20-24, 2020

(High Frequency Words – Mots de haute fréquence)

mon

J’aime mon école.

ma

Voici ma salle de classe.

mes

Bonjour mes amis.

mon

ma

mes

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

Word Work #5 for the week of: 

January 20-24, 2020

(High Frequency Words – Mots de haute fréquence)

ton

Où est ton sac à dos?

ta

Voici ta tuque bleue.

tes

Tes souliers sont sales.

ton

ta

tes

Our snowmen are painted!

Although our snowmen were mostly white, they're now definitely white with a thick coat of paint! This took up a big portion of our day and the rest of the day was filled with a math doubles game, finishing up some work from the week, cleaning up the classroom as well as playing hangman and showing more classmates our pictures from the holiday.
Have a great weekend, Mme says! Looking forward to warmer weather next week!

"Math pattern" clothing day tomorrow

It's pattern day at school tomorrow! Stripes, shapes, anything with a pattern would be great!
Today was another inside day, of course, and cabin fever has definitely set in. Thank goodness our class had gym this afternoon to expel some of our energy! We also had buddy time, doing some more reading with them and talking in French about our winter vacation photo. During journal time today, we talked about how to improve our guided writing in our journals; Mme loves it when we use our imagination and write creative and detailed sentences. In science, we finished talking a bit about hearing and our 5 senses by reading a truly wonderful book on Helen Keller. Ask me what details I remember most from the book. (Maybe that she too learned French!) A truly wonderful example about perseverance!

Special Lunch tomorrow

Today, we did a lot of work on practising our oral French. We talked about the photo we brought in from our winter break. We asked Mme for the words we needed, she provided examplars and we needed to rehearse it with three friends. We will continue to practice it tomorrow and with our buddies before we begin our writing on it. We also used our family tree to practice oral French. "Ça c'est..." or "Voici...". We also had music today. In math, we continued on with our post-test to see how well we can skip count. Finally, at the beginning of the day, we made a new book about what we can do in winter.

 

Art gallery walk

Today, we did an art gallery tour. We examined different pieces of art, looked if they were photographs or painted, what colours we could see, where the art took place and what kind of feeling it provoked. We talked about what we liked and didn't like. In Science, we talked about our fifth sense, hearing ("l'ouïe") and needed to identify sounds just by listenting. In math, we did a final assessment of our skip counting skills and in journal time, we wrote using our winter vocabulary. We also have two new sounds this week; we worked on "ou" this morning. Ask me what sound it makes and a word that it is in. Today, we had gym with M. Trevor.

Brrr! Il fait froid!

Being this cold, we needed to stay in for both recesses today. It is expected that this will last all week (equalling cabin fever!). I was told that I could bring a special book or a game from home to keep me occupied during this time, if I so choose. (And my parents agree!)
Today, was mostly all about 'les bonhommes de neige'! With much parent help, we created our snowmen. Ask me how I made them. Over the next few months, I will be decorating them, talking about them and writing stories about them. We also had buddy time (where we read our new high-frequency words) and gym.

Following are the words (six of them this week) that are studying. Please use these to read with your child. Home reading starts next week and these are a great place to start! Any questions, please ask!

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

Word Work #2 for the week of: 

January 13-17, 2020

(High Frequency Words – Mots de haute fréquence)

un

Je vois un chat.

une

Je mange une pomme.

des

Il y a des livres sur l’étagère.

un

une

des

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

Word Work #3 for the week of: 

January 13-17, 2020

(High Frequency Words – Mots de haute fréquence)

il

Il s’appelle Monsieur Trevor. 

elle

Elle s’appelle Madame Zdrill.

je

Je suis un enfant.

il

elle

je