St. Anthony Connects The Week of March 30 – April 3

Earth Hour this year at St. Anthony School

St. Anthony this Week

Monday, March 30

Hip Hop Club starts at Lunch Gr. 4,5,6

Tuesday, March 31

LAST school wide audit

Cathlee O’Connell to read with Mrs.Rupnik’s class (AM)

Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class (PM)

chess club at noon

Table Tennis at 3:15 PM

Wednesday, April 1

Dental Screening for JK, SK, 2, 4, 6

Rosary Group Visit

Rosary schedule

FDK1 10:30-10:45
FDK2 10:45-11
(Lucy)

1/2 Cook: 12:15-12:35 (Maruka)
1 and 2/3: 12:35-12:55 (Maruka-Learning Commons)
Gr. 4/5 Mr. Girard: 12:55-1:25 (Lucy)
Gr. 5/6 1:45-2:30 (Lucy)

We Day – two students attending

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Thursday, April 2

Stations of the Cross at St. Anthony Church- 11:00 AM

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St. Anthony Superstars – 2:30 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Young Rembrandts starts today 

Friday, April 3 

Good Friday – no school

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Questions to ask when considering a 1:1 program – how do we respond at our school?

Over the past week, I have written two blog posts about the implementation of Chromebooks at our school – here is an excerpt from one of them.  The posts can be reached here. 

We are on the cusp of starting a limited 1:1 program at our school.  As we prepare, it is important to consider al sorts of questions – as we prepare, I want to consider answers to questions asked by Ann McMullan in the article:

The 10 questions to ask before you start your one-to-one program

McMullan shared 5 start factors that are keys to success for one-to-one programs:

  1. Start with “Why?” What are instructional goals you hope to accomplish?
  2. Start small, think big. “Find some of those teacher leaders and let them try out the devices,” she said. “Find out what the issues are with the network. But do think big; it becomes an equity issue very quickly.”
  3. Start with teachers first. It’s critical.
  4. Start the conversation across all departments.
  5. Do start: Go for it. Failure is part of the learning process.

We have been getting closer and closer to 1:1 especially at the junior level all year.  The key point for us is the teachers.  We have a group that is willing to experiment and learn.  We have had several group PD sessions during and after the school day to work on our understanding on how various apps – especially Google Apps can improve student learning.  We have had great results with Read and Write and are learning how to give more effective feedback with Kaizena. We are learning more about digital portfolios.  We are also learning new ways to deliver PD to staff.  For our last PD venture, we invited a teacher from our partner school to spend the day with teachers and classes to work on digital portfolios.  Having an experienced teacher with us in the classroom made a huge difference.

We need more donations – moving towards 15% funded!

 

Ms Myers Grade One class

We kicked off our science unit on Energy this past week with a great workshop facilitated by “Scientist Wendy” from the Scientists in Schools program.  We enjoyed having Mr. Cook’s grade 1’s join in the learning!  

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Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. We will be talking about what took place between Palm Sundayand Easter Sunday using pictures and symbols that are associated with these events. It is the final week for our Lenten Food Drive. This week we are collecting coffee, tea, and sugar, but any unexpired food donation is welcome. Thank you for your generosity! 

An April newsletter and homework calendar will be going home this week. Please look for it in your child’s agenda!

Mr Cook’s Grade 1-2 class

This week’s word wall words will be: PLAYED, GAME, PEOPLE, CAN’T, WERE. We are moving from money onto geometry in math. We will learn about 2-D and 3-D shapes. At home, you can ask your children what different shapes they can recognize! In science, we are learning about movement. Last week we discussed ‘position words’ (in front, on, in, between, under, above etc…). The students will be finishing their narratives this week as well. We have been reading plenty of stories and even made our own as a class! This week, the grade 2’s will begin lessons in religion for their Reconciliations and First Communion. Homework calendars will be sent home Tuesday in your child’s agenda bag. We will be collecting coffee, tea, and sugar for our Lenten project this week. Again, than you for your support with this great charity! Friday is Good Friday and there will be no school. I hope that everyone has a blessed Easter weekend!

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Ms Manzoli’s Grade 2-3 class

As we enter into Holy week the Grade 2/3 class will be participating in various activities centered on the Death of Jesus and the resurrection. We will be learning about the Stations of the Cross. We will also participate in the re-enactment of the last supper. We will be making Easter baskets and dying our Easter eggs to enjoy over our Easter Weekend. Since this will be a short week with Friday being Good Friday, there will be no homework assigned.

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St. Anthony Connects – The week of March 23 – 27

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St. Anthony This Week

Monday, March 23

La Maletta Performance – 9:00 AM

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Morning prayer – grade 1

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 24

Cathlee O’Connell to read with Mrs.Rupnik’s class

Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class

Table Tennis – 3:15 pm

Wednesday, March 25

Young Rembrandts starting – after school – until April 22

Thursday, March 26

Scientists in the Schools – grade 1 – 8:30 – 11:00 AM

Earth Hour – 10:00 am -11:00 am

Guest Reader Session- Mrs. Rupnik’s class 9:20AM

Friday, March 27

Earth Hour – 10:00 am -11:00 am

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Guest Reader in Mrs. Rupnik’s Class 1:15 PM

Little Horn Theatre  * MUSIC/FIDDLE WITH   CHAD WOLFE 

 

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Anthony’s

JK/SK 8:30-9:00 (20)

JK/SK 9:00-9:30 (20)

9:45-10:00 recess

10:00-10:40 Grade 1 ( 12) +

Grade 1/2 (20)

10:40-11:15 Grade 2/3 (16)

*get ready for lunch upon

dismissal

11:15-12:15 LUNCH

blogging club – lunch time

Pizza Day

St. Anthony Super Stars Award – 2:45PM

 

Teacher Notes for this week:

Ms. Rupnik’s Primary Language Class

Welcome back everyone! This upcoming week, we will revisit ‘recount writing’ in our journals.   Our Social Language activities will focus on knowing how you feel. We will also review the concept of big deal/little deal.  Remember to keep helping your child with the homework calendar. When you support your children’s homework routine, you help them do better at school.

 Ms Myers Grade 1 Class

This week we look forward to our visit from the Scientists in Schools program. Wendy Decker, our scientist, will guide us through five learning centers where the students will explore different aspects of energy in our lives. On Friday, the whole school will participate in Earth Hour – we will work without using any electricity from 10:00-11:00 a.m. During this time we will brainstorm for ways we can conserve energy at home and school. In math we will focus on how we measure time – beginning with

days, weeks, months, years, hours, and minutes. Real life opportunities to connect daily/monthly activities in your home with calendars and clocks help build your child’s sense and concept of time.

 The “Wonderful Ones” will be leading the Morning Announcements this week. If your child has been asked to say a prayer, please have them practice reading it aloud to you in preparation.

 

Dans la classe de Mr. Chartrand:

Grade 1/2

In Social Studies, we are continuing to focus on comparing Canada to other

countries around the world. The Grade 2’s will be presenting their Country Projects.

Grade 1’s are introducing their home and it’s location on a map and also working on

Community Helpers.

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In French, we will finish the “au/eau” this week. The two stories are (“Pauline

Sauterelle” and “Que c’est beau, que c’est beau!”) can be found on their google

accounts.

In reading, we are reading “C’est le printemps – Grade 1’s”. The grade 2’s will focus

on “la vie sur l’étang – the life cycle of a frog” and we will also read “Les graines

poussent”.

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In the classroom, students will be Benchmarked and tested for the word wall words.

We will see the last of the word wall words in April and May­June will be a review.

We will continue to practice book concepts and comprehension.

The words wall words for this week are:

– trois(three) avoir(to have) être (to be)

dire (to say)

* Please practice the words at home..

Grade 4 (Immersion)

We will finish are two online labs this week and then finish studying the different

uses of rocks in society’s past and present. The summative task will be the final

Thursday prior to the Easter break.

Merci,

Monsieur

 

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Mr Cook’s Class – grade 1/2

The word wall words this week are: OUTSIDE, AGAIN, KNEW, WRITE, HURT
In Math, we will continue to work with money. At home, you can provide your child with several coins and have them make different amounts. The grade 1s are learning to make change to 20 cents, and the grade 2s are learning how to make change to $1.00. The students seem to be enjoying this Math unit! In language, we will be writing our Narratives this week. I encourage the students to talk about their ideas at home and come to school with many ideas! (ie, characters, setting, problems, solutions) Homework folders are due this week. Pizza orders and milk orders are also due by the end of this week. We are still continuing to collect food items for our Lenten Project. The support thus far has been great! Many thanks to all the parents! I hope everyone had a blessed and restful March Break! Welcome back and welcome SPRING!!!

 

Our Asphalt to Oasis fund – we are at $400.00!!  looking to make it to $5000.00 in 35 days

St. Anthony Connects The week of March 9 – 13

A example of a depaving project in Oregon can we do this at St. Anthony??

Published on 7 Feb 2014

Interviews with depavers at the Arleta K-8 School project performed summer 2013 in Portland, Oregon.  Hope this will happen for us this spring.

First sign of spring in the kindergarten class!

First sign of spring in the kindergarten class!

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, March 9

all selection sheets for grade 4 and 7 French should be in by now

Tuesday, March 10

Dental Screening today

chess club

Table Tennis – 3:15

Wednesday, March 11

Thursday, March 12

Our Community Police Officer is visiting the kindergarten classes

Life Below Zero activity in Gatineau Park – grade 4,5,6 10:00 – 12:00

Great Big Crunch Event 2:00 – 2:45

The Great Big Crunch Event is an opportunity to focus on healthy snacking by crunching on apples.  Kids across Canada participate in this event by biting into apples at the exact same time!

Friday, March 13

Pizza Day

Blogging Club at lunch

First St. Anthony Super Stars award today!!

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Teacher Notes for the Week

This Week in PLC – Ms Rupnik

This week in our Primary Language Class, we will start work on new vocabulary for the season of Spring and Easter.  The concept of big deal/little deal will also be discussed as part of our Social Language activities.  This concept helps students differentiate what is important from what is less important so that they can be less anxious about situations of lesser importance and take seriously situations of greater importance.  Enjoy your March Break!  Remember repetition reinforces learning.  Ten to fifteen minutes a day can really help, whether it’s reading a favourite book together, measuring ingredients in the kitchen, or writing a shopping list. 

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 Ms Myers’ class – grade one

As part of our Lenten journey, we have been focusing on the story of the Good Shepherd (John 10:2-5, 11, 14-16). The children were able to make connections and talk about how God is like our shepherd, guiding us gently and always caring for us. At our recent school assembly, a representative from the Shepherds of Good Hope mentioned that we are also like shepherds as we gather donations to help feed those in need. The students were able to see what an important role they play by bringing in even one single can of food, so thank you, again, for encouraging your child to participate in this endeavor. This week the focus for our Lenten food drive is condiments – things such as peanut butter, jam, mayonnaise, and vegetable oil.  

 In math, we will be wrapping up our geometry unit by exploring 3-dimensional shapes and moving into how we measure time….I hope everyone remembered to turn change their clocks this weekend….springing forward by 1 hour!!

 Don’t forget to check out the many activities offered in our community over the March Break period – Rosemount Library, Plant Bath, and Jack Purcell Community Centres are all great places to spend some free time!  Enjoy!

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Mr Cook’s grade 1/2 class

This week’s word wall words will be: QUIT, QUICK, KICK, COULD, WOULD

We had a guest reader last Friday and the kids loved it! We will make a mural for Libby Redribbon by coloring autographed pictures from Julie Astier, author of the Libby Redribbon series. We are going to read more Fairy Tales this week and work on creating our own narratives! We are moving on to learning money concepts in math. I encourage the grade 2 students to continue practicing 2 digit subtraction questions with regrouping when they are finished their homework. Lent is still upon us, and we will continue to accept donations of goods for our Lenten project! Thank you for all of your support thus far! Our class will be reading the morning prayers this week. A few of the students forgot to bring their library books back last week. We have library every Monday afternoon, and the students should bring back their books for Monday. This is our last week before March Break and the weather looks to be getting warmer. It may be almost time for us to wear our rubber boots! Let’s have a fun filled week!

 

M Girard’s classes

2/3e Études Sociales: Pédagogie de l’enquête(inquiry); Human activities and decisions about land use may alter the environment (suite)
4/5e Listening and Speaking to interact: tâche finale
5/6e Listening and Speaking to interact: tâche finale
4e Immersion Santé: Pédagogie de l’enquête(inquiry); fonctions des éléments nutritifs
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EARTH HOUR 2015 ST. ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Earth Hour is an international event usually held on the last Saturday of March between 8:30-
9:30pm. During this hour, people around the world turn off their lights in support of addressing
climate change.

At St. Anthony Catholic School, we will be participating in Earth Hour on Friday, March 27,
2015 from 10:00-11:00 AM by powering down and turning off or unplugging all non-essential
lights, computers, and other electrical devices. During this hour, students will create and post
class pledges to commit to reducing their energy consumption beyond the hour.

In addition to our school Earth Hour event, we encourage students to take this message home
and as a family, participate in Earth Hour on Saturday, March 28, 2015 from 8:30-9:30 PM. By
reducing and conserving our energy use we are helping to reduce the amount of air pollution
in Ontario caused by the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity. In fact, the air quality in
Ontario has improved in recent years because of these types of actions.

Thanks for your support in this worldwide movement to raise awareness about climate change
and protect our planet!

Sincerely,

The Green Team at St. Anthony Catholic School

St. Anthony Connects – The week Of March 2 – 6

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, March 2

Gr. 6 Grad Photo Orders Due

Hydro Presentations Kindergarten to grade 6 (Learning Commons)

9:30-10:00 – kindergarten
10:05 – 10:35 – grades 1-3
10:40-11:10 – grades 4-6

Tuesday, March 3

Chess Club

Table Tennis in the gym 3:15

Wednesday, March 4

Rosary visit to St. Anthony

FDK1 10:30-10:45

FDK2 10:45-11
(Lucy)

1/2 Cook: 12:15-12:35 (Maruka)
1 and 2/3: 12:35-12:55 (Maruka-Learning Commons)
Gr. 4/5 Mr. Girard: 12:55-1:25 (Lucy)
Gr. 5/6 1:45-2:30 (Lucy)

Swim to Survive – grade 2/3

Thursday, March 5

Friday, March 6

Assembly second block

  • invite someone from Shepherd’s of Good Hope
  • gymnastic showcase
  • introduction of St. Anthony Superstars Awards – grade 5/6 performing
  • certificates – Gymnastics, basketball freethrow
  • environmental awards
  • one film – ski day

Teacher Notes for this week

Ms Myers Grade 1 class

This week a March newsletter and homework calendar will be going home in your child’s agenda. Please check to see if it’s there!  Just a reminder that both these items can be found on our school website under the teacher section.  Thanks to all parents who have returned their child’s report card envelope!  If you still have it at home, please send it in with your child to be used again in June.  We continue our work with 2-D shapes, linking them to objects we see in our environment. Take a “shape walk” with your child at home and see how many different things you can find!

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 Mr Cook’s Class Grade 1/2

This week’s word wall words are: BEST, COAT, KIND, YOUR, ZOO. In Math, we are moving onto subtraction with borrowing for grade 2, and subtraction facts from 20 for grade 1. In Language, we will learn about narratives, by reading stories and writing our own. We will continue to learn about structures in science and how they support an object. I will be away Thursday this week and will have a supply teacher in that day. Homework calendars will be sent home this week in the student’s agenda bags. Please make sure they are trying to complete their homework each night and have them look their work over when they are done. We will have a special visit this week from Julie Astier, my aunt and local author of LIbby Redribbon. This will happen Friday afternoon during last block. The kids are very excited about this! I hope everyone has a blessed week!

Ms Rupnik’s Language Class

This week in our Primary Language Class, we will work on a new ‘thinkmark’ dedicated to determining the important part of stories we read.  Finding the important part is a reading strategy that we use to distinguish between what information in a story is most important versus what information is interesting but not necessary for understanding.  March homework calendars arrive home on Monday, March 2, 2015. 

M Girard’s classes:

2/3e Études Sociales: Pédagogie de l’enquête(inquiry); Human activities and decisions about land use may alter the environment (continued)
4/5e Études Sociales: problèmatiques environnementales des 4 régions à l’étude (inquiry process)
5/6e Listening and Speaking to interact: commander au téléphone -numéro et adresse du client 
4e Immersion  dictée mars: verbe aimer au futur proche (10 phrases-69 mots)