Teacher notes:
The Kindergarten classes:
The Kindergarten students are invited to wear their Halloween costumes to school on
Friday, October 31st. Please ensure your child is safe and comfortable in his/her
costume and that a bag be included in the knapsack to hold the costume. They will be
allowed to wear the costume until lunch time and then they will remove the costumes
and place them in the bag for the remainder of the day. Labelling props is
recommended to ensure all the parts of the costume return home with your child’s
costume.
We ask that plastic weapons (i.e. pitchforks, swords, and guns) stay at home.
Your Kindergarten Team
Ms Myers: This week in Grade One….
Our Home Reading Program will begin this week! Mrs. Mullins is a dedicated volunteer who will
visit each Wednesday and read a book with each student. Your child will bring home this book to
read with you. The Home Reading Books and Library Books will both be returned on
Wednesdays – this should keep the routine easy to remember!!
The children are very excited about our Raz-Kids on-line reading program! Remember to
download the free app if you are connecting from an iPad. If you have difficulties, please let me
know.
We will enjoy several math and literacy activities that are connected to Halloween this week
Ms Rupnik’s Class: We will wrap up our unit on Halloween this week. Our language lessons and tasks will include sequencing 6-8 pictures to explain how pumpkins grow. We will also decorate a pumpkin for our school-wide contest. Later in the week, we will carve a pumpkin and work on adjectives to describe the pumpkin, inside and out. I will draw for one student to take the carved pumpkin home on Friday. Remember to return the October homework calendars on Thursday, October 30, 2014.
Ms Manzoli’s Class: The grade 2/3 class has a week full of events, beginning with, pumpkin carving on Monday. On Tuesday our school nurse is coming in to talk about ways to stay healthy including hygiene . On Wednesday we have a Lego presentation with hands on activities. Thursday progress reports go home and on Friday it’s Halloween, come to school with your costume and have a fun filled day with various activities. Have a safe and Happy Halloween!🎃👻
M. Girard’s classes: week of Oct 27,
2/3e : La fête de la citrouille (activités diverses)
4/5e : Rédaction d’une annonce d’animal perdu
5/6e : Etudes Sociales -Droits et responsabilités du citoyen canadien
4e Immersion: Arts Plastiques -décoration d’une citrouille, Education Physique -évaluation des techniques de course (Fun 2 Run)
St. Anthony This Week
Monday, October 27
BYOD – students are now allowed to bring in their laptops, tablets or smart phones. They will be kept secure in the classroom in the class tech tub. Devices are not to be brought outside and gaming devices are not permitted. The devices are to be used for educational purposes in the classroom.
Andrew Harvey from Evergreen in all day to consult staff and students about the greening of our property
Andrew is from Evergreen – this is from their website:
We believe we can solve even the most pressing urban environmental issues by bringing diverse people together, inspiring them with possibilities and engaging them in identifying solutions and taking action. The need has never been more urgent.
To help create greener, more sustainable cities, we focus on four key areas:
Greenspace, Children, Food and CityWorks
Evergreen will meet with all our staff and students to come up with a plan to continue the greening of St. Anthony School
fire drill scheduled for 10:15-10:30 (weather dependant)
Squirmies – 11:35 – 12:15
Maker Event in the learning commons – grade 5/6 class, – this is a really important event for our school. We are starting something new – a makerspace. This will be a space in the learning commons for students to create and innovate. These are the skills that will be so important for all of our students in the future. You can read more about makerspaces here.
Here is a short video of one of the tools we have purchased for our makerspace – a Makey Makey kit
Tuesday, October 28
Andrew Harvey from Evergreen in all day to consult staff and students about the greening of our property
Wednesday, October 29
Blockheads comes to St. Anthony – grade 2/3 – this will be a very exciting activity for the grade 2-3 students. Blockheads is a group that uses lego to teach concepts to students. This activity will focus on math
Thursday, October 30
Fun2Run program Ghost Run for the juniors! This will be the culmination of a 5-week program to introduce our juniors to running as a fun way to keep in shape. The run will start at the War Museum and end near the Bytown Museum – a unique event for our kids!
here is an excerpt from Michael Stashin’s website – Michael is the designer of the Fun2Run Program:
Michael is a running instructor (www.runeffortlessly.com) working with the Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) research group through the CHEO Foundation to promote healthy active living among kids in the Ottawa region. Collaboratively Michael and HALO developed a Fun2Run non-competitive running program for elementary school children grades 4 through 6. The Fun2Run program will be piloted within St. Anthony School and endorse the concept of running as a fun easy activity based on the application of efficient running technique.
Progress Reports going home today
Friday, October 31
Hip Hop day with Katie Gauthier – for all students in the gym – this is the beginning of the Little Horn Theatre Program – this is the beginning of an arts program that all our students will take part in throughout the school year. Little Horn will expose our students to drama, dance and music created by a variety of Ottawa artists.
Halloween! Students are allowed to wear costumes!!
We ask that plastic weapons (i.e. pitchforks, swords, and guns) stay at home.
Don’t forget to vote for us – tell all
your friends –
everywhere!!