St. Anthony This Week
Monday, September 26
Photo Day Edge Imaging
Tuesday, September 27
Terry Fox Day
ESPN Documentary
Green Club meeting with Andrew Harvey (Evergreen Canada) in the Learning Commons – 11:35
Wednesday, September 28
Wastefree Wednesdays
Boys Soccer Team Tournament St. Gemma
Thursday, September 29
Math workshop RMS Math Strategies
Friday, September 30
St. Anthony Superstars!
Grade 5/6 swimming lessons at Plant Bath 12:30 – 2:15 PM
The Kindergarten students are settling into their routines very well. They return their mailbags daily, they have their lunch kits ready with their water bottles and they come ready for learning! A special thank you to our partners in education, our wonderful parents for making the transition to a full day learning very successful for our amazing group of students! As always, we are available to discuss any concerns you may have once all students are safely dismissed at the end of the day, at 3:00pm. The Kindergarten Team is always at the back door for dismissal and usually able to assist with finding a lost coat, water bottle or to touch base about the day!
We were part of many great school wide initiatives last week. We attended and participated in our St Anthony Superstars assembly by launching a new Catholic Graduate expectation of “I care”. The students in Kindergarten stood up in front of the whole school and challenged everyone by asking “What will you do?”
Last week your child arrived home with a creatively decorated “Word Bag!” This is intended as a place where our weekly word wall words can be kept for regular practice. A note accompanied your child’s bag with suggestions for fun activities that can reinforce these sight words. The children were really excited to bring home their first five words! As part of our health and physical education curriculum, we learned about the importance of proper hand washing. Using resources from Ottawa Public Health, the children reviewed the procedure for proper hand washing and the “Glitterbug” helped us find out if our hands are truly clean or not! This is an essential habit for the children to practice, especially as we enter cold and flu season. This week we look forward to participating in our Terry Fox walk. It will take place on Tuesday, September 27. Keep those “toonies” coming in!! We have been adding them up each day and our class has raised almost $30.00!! Thank you, again, for your support of this worthwhile activity. A reminder that Monday, September 26 is photo day…hopefully everyone comes with big smiles!
Grade Two-Three Ms Moga’s Class
Fall is here! It’s hard to believe that it’s already the last week of September. Time flies when you’re learning and having fun. Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather.
Reminders– Homework due this Friday, September 30th.
Writing– This past week the students wrote in their journals. They practiced using the word wall words and personal dictionaries when trying to spell words. We also began our first writing form- recounts! This is similar to a journal; students write about an event or experience giving details in order and include a personal comment at the end. This week I will model how to write a recount, and then we will write one as a class before the students begin their own.
Reading– Last week we discussed two fix-up strategies to help with figuring out words when reading: tap each word when you read, and check the picture. This week the students will see how to use a few more fix-up strategies when reading.
Math- Students have enjoyed playing various games and doing hands-on activities to help with learning place value. This week, we will continue our focus on numbers: we will practice counting by 1’s. 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 25’s to 200, as well as backwards from 50 by 1’s using number lines and hundreds charts to help.
Science– This past week we discussed how baby animals look different from adult animals- we discovered that animals grow and change in many different ways. We realized that animals can be grouped based on various characteristics. We then began learning about one category- mammals. We will continue discussing mammals this week.
Religion– Last week we learned about the different families we are a part of (home, school, community, church) and how they can help us. This week, the students will be introduced to the Apostles’ Creed and learn how it describes what Christians believe.
Art– Last week, we continued another project using different kinds of lines. Students learned that there are five patterns often found in nature (spiral, meander, packing, branching, and explosion) and created their own “pop-art” pictures using these patterns. We will make a fall themed picture this week.
Have a great week!
Ms. Moga
Mrs. Manzoli’s Notes for this Week
Last week was a very busy week for the Grade 3 class. We had another successful day with our “Friends for Life” where we talked about things we like to do and things we do best at. We listened to a cute story called “What I do best at”. Students created posters and wrote the things they liked to do. We look forward to another great day with our friends on Tuesday. We were inspired by listening to a member of the Terry Fox Foundation on Friday with more stories about who Terry Fox was and the struggles he endured.
Please continue to bring in those toonies for Terry. Our walk is scheduled for Tuesday followed by an assembly afterwards. We hope to reach our goal of $375. Mother nature was on our side while the Grade 3 class participated in cleaning the Capital Friday morning. The students worked as a team as we weeded our garden in our school yard. Our plants now have room to grow. We demonstrated that WE CARE, our new Superstar Theme for this term.
Learning Goals for this week…
In Language Arts we are on our way towards our third daily 5 station. We have been working on what we do when ‘reading to self’ and ‘reading to someone’. Things we have been talking about are: How do know when a book is Just Right? How do we use our 5 finger rule? How can our reading buddy help with our Fix Up strategies? This week the students will be introduced to ‘Listening to Reading’. We continue to use ‘Raz Kids’ a web-based reading program. Students may access this program through their student portal. We will also begin looking at how to be a good writer by looking at proper sentence structures when we write. How do you write a proper sentence?
In Math, we continue to work on number sense and place value of a number. Students were able to show numbers in standard form and expanded form. This week we will use Mathletics to practice these concepts. They will be given their usernames and passwords to be able to access this program at home.
In Science we have begun our first unit on Soils and the students were able gather different samples of soil and examine what soil is made of.
Reminders for this week…
- Students borrowed their first book from the library last week. They need to return them by Wednesday in order to be able to borrow a new book.
- It’s picture day on Monday, come to school with your smile. : )
- Homework folders are due on Friday.
M Girard’s French Classes
2/3e Français oral : activité «la chanson arrêtée», téléfrançais 4, expressions utiles en salle de classe («J’ai une question» etc.)
Lecture : des aviateurs et des aviatrices d’aujourd’hui (Visages 2 thème 4, p.44-45)
écriture: structure d’un phrase avec les adjectifs qualificatifs des aviateurs et aviatrices (aventureux/aventureuses, imaginatifs/imaginatives, confiants/confiantes, indépendants/indépendantes)
3e
Français oral : série «les devinettes de Reinette (3)» (Idello) , «Vive les aviateurs et les aviatrices» (chant)
théâtre: structure d’un phrase avec les adjectifs qualificatifs des aviateurs et aviatrices et mimes (Visages 2 thème 4, act. 1.2)
Lecture : repérer les adjectifs dans un texte authentique
5/6e Immersion
Français Oral : une école spéciale en Hollande (partage des similitudes et différences), structures de phrases pour converser durant le goûter
Français lecture : site web «le moyen âge au primaire», questionnaire «La seigneurie : un domaine agricole» , bande dessinée : le Royaume (2)
Danse: exercices et mouvements de danse (DVD), révision des attentes de la tâche finale
Études Sociales : la seigneurie : les rôles respectifs des paysans et de leur seigneur
Mrs. Rupnik’s Class
This week in the Primary Language Class, we will focus on journal writing using new vocabulary for the season of Autumn. As they write, students will be encouraged to center on the individual writing goals set last week.
Some other important notes:
* Picture day is on Monday, September 26.
* Thank-you for sending a toonie for our annual Terry Fox walk. We will continue to collect toonies all week. The Terry Fox walk is scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, September 27th.
* Remember to return the September homework calendars signed on Wednesday, September 28, 2016.
* As our days get shorter and the weather cools, please remember to dress your child appropriately for recess.
* We are beginning Guest Reader sessions soon. One day each month, a Guest Reader will visit and read a story to the class. I will present the class with a riddle and together we will try to figure out who is coming. This is a great language activity because it involves vocabulary, logic reasoning, exclusion, listening to the main idea, etc. If you are interested and have a small amount of time to spare, consider volunteering for one session (about 15 minutes). Please write me a note in the agenda and I will contact you to set up a specific day/time. It’s a real good way to involve parents and demonstrate to students that adults like moms and dads read too!
Mrs. Troccoli’s Grade 4/5 Team News
Happy Fall!!! I hope everyone brings their smiles for picture day on Monday! A great way to start the week – with lots of smiles!
The students enjoyed a powerful presentation on Friday from a representative from the Terry Fox Foundation. She was a wonderful motivator as we prepare for our 5th Annual Terry Fox Event on Tuesday. You are welcome to join us on Tuesday morning as we walk the streets of our community, all in the name of Terry Fox and cancer research.
The students enjoyed our first “Text Talk” with the story of “ A Bad Case of the Stripes”. Ask your child to retell the story and the wonderful message that it sent to the kids. In short – Be yourself!!!
They have also learned our first 6 “WOW” words: contagious, distraction, altered, remedies, vanished and perplexed. Ask your child what they mean and to use them in a sentence for you.
We have begun our lessons on Digital Citizenship and will continue with these meaningful lessons this week.
Their homework duotangs will be sent home Monday with a special assignment. They will be preparing for their first Book Talk. We will go over the expectations in class and they will bring home the outline to share with you. They will be asked to choose a book, at their reading level, and to share the story and feelings about it orally to the class.
In math, we continue to work with numbers. We have started estimating and rounding numbers to 10, 100, 1000, 10 000. These are skills that can be practiced orally with any number that pops up in the environment. The students have also been signed up with Mathletics. This will be a valuable tool we will be using throughout the school year. Assignments will be assigned at school and will also be assigned for homework at times.
Lots going on – it’s all good stuff!!
Reminders: Money for pizza and milk is due by Friday, Sept. 30.
Library day is Wednesday.
Gym days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
Collecting Toonies for Terry
Thank you for your continued support!
Have a great week!
Together Everyone Achieves More
Mrs. S. Troccoli
Mrs Colaiacovo’s Grade five-six class
Another busy week was passed in the grade 5/6 class as the students participated in soccer tournaments (girls) and tryouts (boys), swimming lessons, assemblies, our first Papa Jack popcorn fundraising sale and still covered a whole lot of important curriculum in math, language arts, and science! We continue moving forward with number sense and numeration as students take what they have learned about place value and move into adding and subtracting whole and decimal numbers. We began our digital literacy unit last week during language arts and will continue this week. Our student teacher, Mr. Bannan returned on Wednesday and had the students investigating and plotting biodiversity in our school yard. He will be with us every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks, then return to the classroom every day until the Christmas break.
