St. Anthony Connects

A message to all St. Anthony parents and Guardians

I am writing all of you today to ask you to support St. Anthony School in our bid to build a new schoolyard.

A bit of History

In 1998, the original schoolyard was entirely made of asphalt and won the Ottawa-wide “Ugly Schoolyard” contest. Shortly after, a greening project was started to remove some of the asphalt and add trees. Now the school community wants to finish the job and transform the St. Anthony yard into a green haven for the entire community. We entered the Aviva Campaign for the first time last year – we can very close (80 votes) from making it into the national finals.

How does this work?

Encourage your friends, family and community to vote every day from October 6 to 23. You have 18 votes and 18 days to use them. You can use your votes for a single idea, or multiple ideas, but you can only vote for the same idea once per day.

Timeline for voting

Voting starts October 3 – please see the timeline below. Do it every day fromOctober 6 to October 23!The 30 projects with the most votes in their idea categories and funding levels will go on to be finalists. On December 2, a panel of distinguished judges will select the Grand Prize Winners from the list of 30 finalists.

How can I help St. Anthony?

We need your vote every day from October 6 – 23 days – you vote by going to this address:

https://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf32399

you will need to register and provide an e-mail address in order to vote the first time. You can register with more than one address.

Even better!!

Please send your e-mail address to me – paul.mcguire@ocsb.ca and I will send you a daily reminder from October 6 – 23 because voting every day is the way to win.

Please help us!! We really can turn Asphalt into an Oasis at St. Anthony Catholic with your help!!

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, September 28

School photos today

Tuesday, September 29

Terry Fox Day – Live streaming at assembly

Wednesday, September 30

Waste free Wednesday Today

Boys Soccer – at McMaster School

Thursday, October 1

Friday, October 2

Pizza Day!!

Teacher Notes for this Week

Ms Myers:

The “Wonderful Ones” have been busy learning the read and print the names of all the friends in our class. The names of all the students have been added to our “Word Wall.” We are ready to start adding some high-frequency words that the children encounter often when they are reading. Each week we will be focusing on 5 words. Your child will bring them home and can practice reading, printing, and finding them in their library books or books you have at home. The first monthly homework calendar will be sent home this Thursday, October 1^st. Please check your child’s agenda. We have been gearing up for the Terry Fox run! It will take place on Tuesday, September 29^th. Our class has worked hard on some posters that we will carry with us on our walk. Keep those “toonies” coming in!! We have been adding them up each day. We appreciate your support – and the children are hoping that Mr. McGuire will get a “really short haircut!!” Hopefully we will reach our goal of $350.00!! Thank you, again, for your support of this worthwhile activity.

Ms Draper’s Grade 2 class:

Grade 2 Update for the Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 2

The grade 2 class will have the opportunity to read a morning prayer on the announcements this week. Throughout the year, every student will be have the opportunity to read a prayer for the whole school. Monday is Picture Day, Tuesday is our Annual Terry Fox Run! Thank you for sending in a Toonie for Terry. We will still be collecting money this week so we can reach our School Goal!

We are making many growing number patterns in Math. Students are creating their own charts to record their information on growing number patterns. In Language, we will work with our new Word Wall words. We are enjoying our Shared Reading and Read-a-Louds as we make relevant connections and reading responses to what we have read. Check this week’s Homework Book for how students can respond to what they have read and share their responses with you.

We took home our first Library Book of the year. Monday is Library Day in Grade 2 and we will be exchanging our books every Monday. Gym days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We are training for our Terry Fox Run and we are learning to keep our bodies safe in the gym by moving in open space and keeping our bodies calm and relaxed by breathing.

Ms. Rupnik’s PLC Class:

In the Primary Language Class this week, we will set individual writing goals that will help us grow as writers. In our Social Language program, we will focus on starting a conversation with a friend. We also welcome a new volunteer to our morning class, Alina Carranco. She is a Neurocognitive Science student in fourth year at Carleton University. She will help support students in our class everyThursday morning until Christmas. Remember to return the September homework calendars onWednesday, September 30, 2015. New homework calendars will be sent home on Friday, October 2, 2015.

Green Club News

St. Anthony Catholic School participated in our annual Fall Cleaning the Capital event on Thursday, September 24, 2015. The students and staff picked up litter in and around the school as well as composted materials like twigs and branches. Students also weeded our flowerbeds and added fresh new soil for the perennial plants. The Cleaning the Capital event was a great way for us all to come together as a school community and to ensure our school grounds stay tidy and green. Way to go St. Anthony Catholic School!

M Chartrand’s classes:

1re année

En français, we will continue with our work on the letter E,e. We are finishing our theme All About Me and beginning Our on Autumn. Word Wall Words for

this week are “et, ne, pas, sur, sous”.

4ième année (Immersion)

En Science, we are finishing our unit on Light and begin Sound next week. Our test, will be next Wednesday. We have done some experiments on Light at

school. I’ve sent the rubric and project description on creating a musical instrument to their Google Drive’s. It’s due October 22

4/5th grade (Math)

In math, we are continuing to work on Patterning and Algebra. We will get into the lab this week to use MineCraft. We have used Google Sheets to create

graphs and we will continue to incorporate technology into our work.

5/6ième année

In French, we are half way through our unit on Au Restaurant, we had our first dictée last Friday. Please practice at home. All the work is on your child’s

Google Drive. Again, the unit project has been introduced and is outlined on-line. The project and presentation is due October 23 Studies this week “Les premiers nations rencontrent les premiers explorateurs”. Word wall words this week are “déchets, alors, jusqu’à, venir, partout”.

4th Grade Science (English)

In Science, we will continue our unit on Light. The Unit project on Sound will be introduced and sent to their Google Drive’s.

5th Grade Science (English)

In Science, we have begun our unit on the Human Body. We have started with the Digestive and Skeletal Systems. We are doing centres all week

using Ipad apps and websites.

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten, we continuing to focus on the letters A, a and S, s. We are focussing on demonstrating an awareness of health andy safety practices and a

basic awareness of their own well-being.

M Girard’s classes

2e Français Oral: «On parle de soi» (livrets Qui suis-je ?), «La langue parlée dans la salle de classe» (suite) Français Lecture: Arrimage 1 (pages 21 à 28), Cycle de lecture Français Écrit: les parties du corps (exercices variés avec ce vocabulaire)

3/4e Français Oral: «Qui est-ce ?» consolidation des verbes ouvrir, sortir, courir, répondre, descendre et des verbes en –er, « La langue parlée dans la classe» (suite) Français Lecture: questions avec «Un exercice d’évacuation» (Visages 2 thème 5) Français Écrit: pronoms personnels et conjugaison des verbes en –er (début)

4/5e Immersion Français Oral: «La langue parlée dans la classe (revision) Français Lecture: Cycle de lectureFrançais Écrit: Dictées septembre pour les 4^e et 5^e années. Danse : Éléments de danse 2 (les mouvements)Éducation Physique : soccer (évaluation des points techniques)

Ms Colaiacovo”s grade 5/6 class

It’s going to be another busy week in the grade 5/6 class as we have a couple of special events happening, in addition to our usual programming. On Tuesday, the entire school population will be participating in the Terry Fox walk and our 5/6 students are taking a lead role in promoting of the event by creating and carrying colourful signs advertising the cause. If your child has not yet brought in a Toonies for Terry donation, please encourage him/her to do so by Tuesday. The boys’ soccer tournament takes place on Wednesday at St. Gemma school. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to come out and cheer on the team! The “first round” of homework yielded fairly good results, as most students completed their work to the best of their ability and returned it on time. Please check in with your child on a daily basis to ensure that these good work habits continue throughout the school year. Thanks for your continued support.

This week in Manzoli’s Superstars class….

This week we participate in our annual Terry Fox Walk in support for cancer research. If you have not brought in your toonie it’s not too late we are trying to reach our goal of $350.00. If you are able to come and participate in the walk it would be great to have you.
A reminder that last week the grade 3 students were given their letter to inform you of our Swim to Survive dates. We will be going on Wednesday October 7, 14 and 21. Please remember to have a bathing suit, flip flops and towel.
Your child’s agenda is an important communication tool, please take some time to read what your child is writing in it. it is a great way to stay connected to what is happening in the school. Take a few minutes and initial it each night.
On Friday we will be having our first quiz on the words that the students have been practicing for homework. Please have your child read them over this week.
Homework folders are due each Wednesday of the week. Spelling activities should be completed each week and reading logs filled out. Students were given their passwords and parent information for a math program found online called Dreambox. This is a great tool to practice the math concepts that we cover during the year. This will be part of their homework.

Focus for this week….. Theme Fall

Language Arts: Short i sound and consonant blends. In reading we are practicing our fix up strategies and making connections when we read. We continue to practice our Daily 5 reading to partner. In writing we will look at how to write a good sentence.

Math: Number sense, looking at rounding off numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000.

Science: Gr. 3 looking at particles in soil, Gr. 4 light and sound.

St. Anthony is part of the Ottawa community!

St. Anthony Connects – the Week of September 28 – October 2

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