St. Anthony Connects The Week of October 31 – November 4

St. Anthony This week

Monday, October 31

Halloween!!

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Rec Link helps children participate in recreation activities in our community Meet them at St. Anthony every Monday http://www.reclink.ca/ 9:00 – 3:00PM – Nahima Mohamed, Family Coordinator will be here all day Monday

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Tuesday, November 1

Lunch Lady deliver lunches to St. Anthony every Tuesday – sign up on-line

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Andrew Harvey visits St. Anthony School to work with selected Junior Green Club Students preparing our school grounds for winter

Wednesday, November 2

Y Kids Academy for Grade 6

Wastefree Wednesday

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Rosary schedule 2016-2017
every 1st Wednesday of the month

JK 8:30-8:50
SK 8:50-9:10
grade 1/2 12:15-12:40
grade 2/3 12:45-1:15
grade 3 9:15-9:45
grade 4/5 10:00-10:40
grade 5 10:40-11:15

 

Thursday, November 3

Progress Reports going home today

Friday, November 4

Pizza Day

Swimming at Plant Bath grade 5/6 class

St. Anthony Superstars

Our winners from last week - FDK 1

Our winners from last week – FDK 1

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Teacher Notes for the week

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Kindergarten News for October 31-November 4
Happy Halloween.  We wish all of our students a happy and safe Halloween!  We are having so much fun counting spiders, bats, pumpkins, and cats.  We have enjoyed having many real pumpkins in the room.  We are comparing, decorating, touching, weighing and asking many questions about pumpkins!  A great inquiry is happening on this subject!  We can not wait to carve many pumpkins on Monday!  
Counting and Number Recognition

Counting and Number Recognition

We enjoyed the story “Monster needs a Costume”.  We are making connections to this story using our own ideas!  Many students raise their hands to share their ideas and connections.  We encourage everyone to have an opportunity to speak in front of the whole class!  Students are learning to stay on topic and to share relevant ideas about their own personal connections to a story.  At home, you can say…”This Story reminds me of…..”  Or “I have a connection..”  When reading a bedtime story.  
A haunted house!

A haunted house!

In math, the students created their own Halloween patterns with stickers. They are also being introduced to the concept of weight by comparing the weight of a classmate to that of a large pumpkin. Some students measured their weight in a scale. 
In French, they are learning about the four food groups and what foods are in each group. This is part of the Healthy Eating curriculum. 
Please remember to send your child with a Halloween costume for our Halloween parade Monday morning.
Your child might request to include Halloween candy in their lunches. We ask that parents only include one treat in their lunch kits. 
Thank you for sending your child to school ready for the weather.  Hats, mitts, splash pants/snow pants and warm boots are needed as we spend 40 minutes at lunch and approx 20 minutes at the end of the day outside!!  
Congratulations to K1 class!  They are the St Anthony Superstars this week!  We love caring for others and hope it continues all year.  Our new theme is “I have Ideas” for November and December.  
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Ms Myers’ Grade One – Two class

Our trip to Valley View Farm was a great success!  The children enjoyed the feeding all the animals, finding their way through the corn maze, and choosing a pumpkin to take home. It was a great afternoon to enjoy the crisp autumn air!  Thank you to all those parents who were able to join us for this outing. We read a lot of pumpkin stories before going on our trip. Each one seemed to end with characters enjoying a pumpkin treat…so we felt we needed to do the same!  We made some delicious pumpkin muffins! The children enjoyed reading the recipe, measuring out all the ingredients, and stirring them altogether! The muffins were superb!   In the coming week there will be a few items to look for in your child’s backpack. A new homework calendar and November newsletter will go home early in the week (a reminder that copies of these items are also posted on the school website), as well, your child’s Progress Report will be sent home on Thursday.  As Remembrance Day approaches we will be talking about the importance of peace…in our classroom, our school community, and the world. In math we are working on the concepts of “more” and “less” (sometimes referred to as “greater than,” “less than”). At home have your child use their estimating skills to guess a number of objects (less than 100) and then count them out, checking to see if their estimate was more or less than the actual number. These kinds of activities help build your child’s understanding of quantity. Have a great week!

 

 

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Mrs. Rupnik’s Primary Language Class

We will begin the Halloween week with new word wall words and drawing faces on naturally sweet but low in sugar fruit to create Clementine Pumpkins. Please take some time to read our class newsletter and the food pamphlet called ‘Facts on Snacks’ I will send home on Monday. This pamphlet can help you plan healthy snacks for school. Keep in mind that our school supports wastefree snacks and lunches. The children will also finish sequencing pictures of the pumpkin life cycle and writing about Halloween using their five senses.  The new homework calendars will be sent home on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.

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Note: On Monday, October 31,students may wear appropriate Halloween costumes to school. Students can also decide to dress in black and orange. Have a happy and safe Halloween!

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Ms Moga’s Grade two-three class

What a great week in Grade 2/3 ! The students enjoyed our trip to Valleyview Farms; I think getting to take a pumpkin home was the overall favourite part of their trip. If you’re in the school, keep an eye on our bulletin board which will feature their recount writing about our trip to the farm.

Reading- We’re continuing to make connections while we read. Students will begin making text-to-text connections between two stories read-aloud in class. Making these types of connections helps students better understand what they have read, and also make predictions.

Math- We will continue our patterning unit. Students will learn about sorting by two attributes, as well as about growing patterns.

Science- We will investigate and explore Fish and Amphibians this week.

Religion- We are still working on our Digital Samaritan Unit. I am hoping to finish this unit by starting a “Good News” blog to be written by the students. I will provide more information about this as it gets started.

Have a great week!
Ms. Moga

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News from Mrs Manzoli’s Grade 3 class

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We begin this week with Halloween activities.  Monday will be filled with activities surrounding Halloween.  We will carve pumpkins, play Halloween games and share some treats.  Don’t forget to wear your costumes.  In order to stay safe please do not bring in any masks or accessories that might get in the way.   On Tuesday we participate in our last Friends for Life, we have truly learned so much from this program.  A huge thank you goes out to Kimberly and Leslie.

On Wednesday we begin our day with the praying of the rosary.  What a wonderful way to celebrate all saints day and all souls day (Nov. 1 & 2) .  We also have the pleasure to begin a new fitness program from Good Life Fitness.  On Thursday please be advised that progress reports will be coming home with the students. Parents will be contacted if your child is experiencing difficulty.  Out Papa Jack returns on Thursday.  Popcorn will be sold at 1$ a bag.  On Friday is again our pizza day.

Reminders:

  • Library book return on Wednesday
  • November Homework will be handed out this week
  • Dress warmly for the weather

M Girard’s French classes

2/3e Français oral : le bingo de la citrouille (les chiffres 1 à 100), revision des attributs des aviateurs/aviatrices

Lecture : «Le voyage d’Apollo 11»

3e Études Sociales : Qu’est-ce qu’une communauté urbaine? , différencier communautés urbaine et rurale (plan et légende), vidéo «l’Ontario 1» (les régions)

5/6e Immersion

Français Oral : 4 poèmes à préparer (prononciation/expression)

Français lecture : le royaume p.35 à 38

Français écrit : dictées à préparer; 5e  passé composé et 6e concordance des temps des verbes au passé composé et à l’imparfait (66 mots)

Études Sociales : le château-fort

Musique : révision des doigtés à la flûte à bec

Sciences : choix d’une expérience scientifique (volume Eurêka !)

Oct. 31 – Nov. 4

Mrs. Troccoli’s Grade 4/5 Team News

Happy Halloween!! It’s scary that it is already the last day of October!! I look forward to seeing all the creative costumes being worn by our team…should make for an interesting and exciting day.  We will use the Halloween theme to complete a variety of activities in math and language.

Every student presented their Booktalk last week.  It was our first talk of the year and the students stepped up and put forth a solid effort. It was wonderful to hear about all the great books the students are reading and how happy they were to share their joy of reading with their classmates. As we look ahead to our next Booktalk we will focus on getting more creative with our presentations, speaking with greater confidence and choosing the most important parts of the book, while making connections to enhance the presentations.  Look for the rubric coming home in your child’s homework duotang Monday. Please sign and have your child return the duotang with the completed homework to school by Friday.

In math, we continue to work with addition and subtraction using larger numbers.  We are also solving problems involving decimals and using money inquiries to help make real life connections.  We spent quality time practicing subtraction across zeros.  Many students find this skill quite challenging. Please have your child practice these skills as they are extremely important across all strands of the curriculum. For homework this week students are required to complete the addition and subtraction activities on Mathletics by Friday.

In, Language we will work to publish our Dream paragraphs.  We are learning to revise our writing to help make our ideas clearer and more interesting.  As well, we are editing our writing to make sure we have capital letters, proper punctuation in the right places and correct spelling. This will be helped with the use of the read and write app on the Chromebook.

We will welcome Mr. Moleski into our class on Wednesday. He comes from the board and will work with us to help us use all the tools on our Chromebook which will also enhance our writing.

The students look forward to reading with their kinder buddies every Wednesday.  Too cute!!

In Science, we had Gord Hunter from Destination Imagination join us to challenge our students. They worked cooperatively to complete 3-minute challenges. It was exciting to watch them work as a team to find success. 

The grade 4/5 Team were the proud winners of the superstars trophy for “Caught you Caring” the week of October 17th! Way to go Team!!

Have a great week!

Together Everyone Achieves More

Mrs. S. Troccoli

Congratulations to Mrs Colaiacovo's class for raising $350.00 to assist hurricane victims in Haiti!

Congratulations to Mrs Colaiacovo’s class for raising $350.00 to assist hurricane victims in Haiti!

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