Le 7 septembre

What a busy week, your little one has worked hard and is probably tired. We are ready to move into full swing next week. There are many things you can do at home to help your child which we have been talking about in class like watching French movies and videos and listening to French songs. We have used a few videos to help us with our numbers and alphabet in class and watched a “Frozen” video in French this week. I will start adding the sites we use to the website section of our class page for extra practice at home if you wish.

Have a great weekend.  

We worked hard again today continuing to practice our salutations and we learning a new classroom phrase – “Est-ce que je peux aller boire?” Students started English language arts with Mrs. Tozer this afternoon. We started math this afternoon as well focusing on vocabulary for the numbers 1-12 and “plus” and “font”.

Homework : Students are expected to read and record on a nightly basis and have someone sign their reading log. Agenda should also be signed each night to say an adult saw what they had to do. The agenda is also a great way to send messages back and forth from school as I will check them each day.

7D LA

We are on day 3 of “Totally Joe”. We are reading this book as a class novel study but all students are expected to keep up their personal duo-tangs with their best work as their daily work will be marked. As we read they are expected to take notes on the setting and 4 of the characters, keep adding to the plot line with a note for each chapter and prepare a question for each chapter. Questions need to be higher level thinking.

Narrative

We are bringing this piece to a close. Students will be expected to have their piece typed and printed out before class on Thur. We will start to mark the pieces in class so students will have time to make last minute revisions. See "Writing a Narrative" Powerpoint document

Spelling

Spell-A-Thon - Final Test will be on on Wednesday. See 2017 Spell-A-Thon document

Day 2 of Reading like a Writer has been added to the powerpoint presentation.

1. Students need to come to class with the draft of their book report finished as we have the computer lab tomorrow and they will only be given 1 class to type the report. An updated version of the teaching powerpoint for this report has been up-loaded.

2. Students need to pick a 'just right' book for their next book report. It should be a book that will take 2-3 weeks to read and cannot be a graphic novel unless it has been pre-approved by me. Some students are mid-way through a book and that is fine as the nature of the next book report will allow for a change of books. They will need to read on a nightly basis for this report.

We are into week two of a book report.

Students should be at least half way through the book they have chosen.

They should be taking notes for a character sketch which will be the major part of the book report.

They also need to take notes to help them to write a short description of the setting.

Please see the “Elements of a Story” document for further report details.