St. Anthony This Week
Monday, April 25
Fire Station Visit FDK
Tuesday, April 26
Pedestrian Safety Gr. 1 Bev Wilcox
Orkidstra Today
Wednesday, April 27
Waste-free Wednesday Today
Starr Gymnastics returns to St. Anthony!
Orkidstra Today – at Cambridge School
Thursday, April 28
Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door
Orkidstra Today
School Council 6:30 PM – meeting to plan the June Community BBQ
Friday, April 29
Stephanie and Denis at Connect 2016 (Marie and Kirsten in)
PLC am class to visit Dalhousie Daycare for a reading session- 15 minutes
Papa Jack Popcorn
St. Anthony Superstars
Ms. Myers’ class – winners of this week’s St. Anthony Superstars
Teacher Notes for the week of April 25 – 29
FDK news for April 25-29
Congratulations to FDK 1! They are the winners of the Earth Day Challenge! They designed an amazing castle made with all recycled materials! Way to go FDK!
We had a great Earth Day! We are sprouting seeds in Ziploc bags that are taped to our window so they get lots of sunshine. We cleaned up our schoolyard on Friday! We picked up many pieces of garbage on the yard which helped make our Earth a better place. We also watched a little Earth Day movie with our friends from the PLC Class.
Get ready for another eventful week! We will have three more Gymnastics sessions with Bubbles from Starr Gymnastics on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We will also have a walking field trip to The Fire Station on Preston Street on Monday. A special thank you to all of our parent volunteers and for returning all of the permission forms! We look forward to meeting the firefighters in our community!
Kindergarten students helping with our yard clean-up for Earth Day
Ms. Myers’ Grade one Class:
We are gearing up for another learning filled week in Grade 1! On Tuesday Ms. Bev Wilcox, our school public health nurse, will visit us. Ms. Wilcox will talk about active transportation and safety. This is a particularly important topic now that walking and biking weather is upon us! In math we will begin working with fractions with an emphasis on equal parts of a whole. In language we will work on narrative writing, focusing on the essential parts of a story – beginning, middle, and end. To get us started with our writing efforts, the children are invited to bring a small stuffed animal to enjoy a “sleepover” at the school. We will write a class story about the adventures of our stuffed animals! The stuffed animals can come to school on Wednesday and will return home on Thursday. The “Wonderful Ones” have been following the progress of their bean seeds with great interest and the seeds are sprouting with enthusiasm…turns out the “Wonderful Ones” have green thumbs! A reminder that April homework is due this Wednesday. Enjoy your week!
Ms. Moga’s Class
Another busy week full of learning has come and gone in grade 2! Last week, the students displayed some of the best collaboration I’ve seen all year in planning, constructing, and decorating our cardboard robot for The Earth Day Challenge. Thank you to those who were able to provide some recycled boxes. There was some stiff competition, including two other robots, and unfortunately we were not the winners. However, it was a great experience and learning opportunity!
Curriculum Highlights:
Math: we have wrapped up our unit on fractions. In grade 2, the emphasis is on using concrete materials and not so much standard notation. I encourage parents to continue practicing fractions at home with real-life examples (e.g. with food- equally sharing a pizza, cutting up fruit, splitting a chocolate bar). We are moving onto mass and capacity. Grade 2’s are expected to estimate, measure, and record the capacity and/or mass of an object, using a variety of non-standard units (e.g.,“I used the pan balance and found that the stapler has the same mass as my pencil case.”). They will also be expected to compare and order a collection of objects by mass and/or capacity, using non-standard units (e.g.,“The coffee can holds more sand than the soup can, but the same amount as the small pail.”).
Language: in writing, we will wrap up persuasive letters. The students will each write one more persuasive letter this week.
In reading, we will wrap up making inferences. Students should be able to share inferences they make during a read-aloud or during independent reading.
Gym: STARR Gymnastics will be back again Wednesday through Friday this week. We have approximately 1 hour on each of those days to learn some more gymnastics skills.
Finally, I will be away Wednesday to Friday at the Connect 2016 Conference. I will be attending presentations on various topics regarding technology in education. Ms. Solymar, a regular substitute who is familiar to the grade 2s and our classroom routine, will be covering for me.
Have a fantastic week!
Ms. Moga
Mrs. Rupnik’s Class
This week in the Primary Language Class, we will continue with our narrative writing unit. We will use wordless picture books as a foundation for creative writing. Oftentimes students struggle with ideas and topics for narrative writing. Wordless picture books offers a visual platform for students, providing them with pictures to assist in developing story lines, setting development, character descriptions, sequencing of events, and much more. The April homework calendars are due on Wednesday, April 27. Please remember that the Ottawa Catholic School Board provides students with access to digital educational resources to use at home. To access the student portal page, please navigate to St. Anthony Catholic School website page (http://san.ocsb.ca/) and access the student portal page from there.
M. Girard’s French classes:
2e Français oral: une vidéo sur les ours grizzly
Français lecture: document «Canada : fêtes et symboles»
Français écrit: mise au propre de la recherche sur un ours canadien de ton choix
Études Sociales : identifier des symboles canadiens ( la tour de la paix, l’ours polaire, le caribou)
3/4e
Français oral: Bulletin météo général pour tout le pays et local pour une ville canadienne
Français lecture: présentation de ta poésie à toute la classe et évaluation
Études Sociales : Quand et d’où arrivent ces communautés qui enrichissent le Canada de 1780 à 1850
4/5e Immersion
Français lecture: à partir d’une bande dessinée, identifier ton personnage préféré et trouver trois exemples dans le texte, qui motivent ton choix.
Français écrit: la tribu des adverbes (pas moyen de les accorder), celle des verbes ( les fous du labeur) et les auxiliaires (D’après «La grammaire est une chanson douce» par Erik Orsenna)
Études Sociales: Les Amérindiens face aux changements entre 1500 à 1745
April 25 – April 29
Mrs. Troccoli’s Grade 4/5 Team News
Our week will begin with the oral presentations of our biographies. The students have been working very hard researching and writing about a significant person in our world. They finally get to share all the knowledge they have gained with their classmates. They will also have a chance to present the digital poster they have created on google slides. All very exciting!!
In math we have started exploring Fractions and Decimals. The students will learn how to use them to describe wholes and parts, and to describe and create sets. Your child can look around for things that come in sets. Food is also a great medium to discuss fractions. They can discuss food that is served in fraction pieces. The students can visit mathK8.nelson.com to review concepts taught in class.
Our class worked cooperatively to create a totem pole using recycled materials for our school Earth Day challenge. It was fun to see what teamwork can create!
In Religion we will be learning about the Doors of Mercy. We will brainstorm how we can help make a positive impact in the lives of people who are less fortunate than ourselves or who are experiencing a difficult time in their lives.
In Family Life we have begun Unit 2, Living in Relationships. We have been discussing how important our relationships within our family and with friends are. We have also been learning that these relationships are not always easy. They require hard work and commitment, however, well worth the effort!
Thank you for ongoing support.
Have a wonderful week!
Together Everyone Achieves More
Our class worked cooperatively to create a totem pole using recycled materials for our school Earth Day challenge. It was fun to see what teamwork can create!
M. M. Chartrand Classes
1re année
En français, we have completed a pr ocedural writing activity on life
cycles of frogs, butterflies, plants, etc… The word wall words this
week are: araignée(spider) baleine(whale) arbre(tree)
perroquet(parrot)
We are completing the difficult “ei, ai, et” sounds. They have 2 books at
home which we are practicing at school. The children have learned
almost 20 community helpers and what they do. We are focusses on
where they do this week and we will be writing and talking about it using
complex sentences with the word “et”
Oral:
Les pompiers éteignent les feux et travaillent dans une caserne de
pompier.
Les enseignants nous aident à apprendre et travaillent dans une école.
4ième/5ièmeannée (Immersion)
En Science, we had an amazing workshop on Thursday about wind
turbines and how they produce energy. We will discuss about the data
that was gathered and do our calculations. We will focus on how energy
is stored and then transformed into usable energy. We will also see how
we can save energy and we will be building a house that uses only
renewable energy.
4/5th grade (Math)
In math, we are working on measurement. We will continue to use
Mathletics as a formative assessment tool. Expectations are that they
finish all the activities in the measurement unit online by May 27
We are:
• estimating, measuring, and recording capacity.
• exploring mass.
• investigating relationships between units of length (ex.: 1 cm – 10
mm, 1 m = 10 dm)
• selecting units to measure
• distinguishing perimeter and area and selecting units to measure
• changing units such as g into kg, ml into L, etc…
5/6ième année
In French, we are beginning our final unit on “Au camp de vacances”-”At
summer camp”. We will finish our unit on Superheros in the next few
weeks.
In oral:
We will review… J’aime, Je n’aime pas, J’adore, J’aime jouer, Je suis
during the first week.
In Social Studies, we are studying the benefits of tourism and how it
links us to the rest of the world. Students have chosen one city or park
and are creating a pamphlet which they will present next week.
We are also multiculturism and Canada. We are:
• assessing contributions to Canadian identity made by various
groups and by various features of Canadian communities and
regions.
• using the social studies inquiry process to investigate different
perspectives on the historical and/or contemporary experience of
two or more distinct communities in Canada.
• demonstrating an understanding of significant experiences of and
major changes and aspects of life in, various historical and
contemporary communities in Canada.
5th Grade Science (English)
In Science, we will complete the school year with Understanding Earth
and Space Systems. We will start with forms of energy and begin
Renewable and Non-Renewable sources of energy. The kids completed a
workshop on Wednesday on Renewable forms of energy. They build a
wind turbine and measured the energy it produced. We will study the
data from our measurements this week.
Thanks,
M. Chartrand
For a fifth straight year, Ottawa Public Health has partnered with sports retailers across Ottawa to bring residents a discount on helmets. Helmets prevent serious brain and head injuries by absorbing the force from a fall or hit to the head. Helmets are recommended for activities like skateboarding, rollerblading, biking, sledding, skating, skiing and snowboarding. In Ontario, it is mandatory for anyone under the age of 18 to wear a certified helmet while riding a bicycle (Highway Traffic Act).
The Retailer Helmet Discount Weekend is May 14 and 15, 2016.
For a list of participating helmet retailers, please visit: http://www.parentinginottawa.com/en/children/Helmet-Discount.asp
Connect With Ottawa Public Health
Suivez Santé publique Ottawa
