Congratulations to our grade 6 students who were confirmed this past Saturday at St. Anthony Church.  

Thanks especially to Mrs. Colaiacovo for her work in preparing our students

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, April 4

 

Tuesday, April 5

Scientists in the classroom – Grade One

Orkidstra in the learning commons

Wednesday, April 6

Wastefree Wednesday Today

Rosary visit
St.Anthony Catholic School

Rosary schedule
10:30 to 11:15 JK & FDK Natalie Schlesak
12:15 to 12:40 Grades 2 Shannon Draper

12:45 to 1:05 Grade 1 Meg Myers
12:15-1:30 Grade 4/5 French: Sylvain Girard
1:45-2:15 Grade 3/4: Maria Manzoli
2:20 -3:00 Grade 5/6: Nora Colaiacovo /Denis Chartrand

Dental Screening JK, SK, Gr 2 & 6

Orkidstra at Cambridge School

Thursday, April 7

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside  near the parking lot door

Orkidstra in the learning commons

Friday, April 9

Pizza Day

Easter Mass – 9:00 AM at St. Anthony Church – all parents welcome

Movie Night at St. Anthony – Movie – Inside Out – 4:30 – 6:30  Come in your PJs!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teacher Notes for the upcoming week

FDK News for the upcoming week

April is here!  We had a great time on April Fool’s Day.  Ask your child about some of the fun tricks the teachers played on Friday.  We walked through our neighbourhood in search of our bear cave.  We were going to wake up our hibernating bears however when we finally reached the cave we were all surprised to find out that the bears were gone!!  The FDK students searched everywhere in the school yard!  When we arrived back in class we found all of our bears in the classroom!  We had lots of laughs!
We have many events this week, a rosary visit by Ms. Lucy on Wednesday, along with Dental Screening by our dental hygienist.  On Friday we will celebrate our Easter Mass at 9:00am at St Anthony Church, please join us!  It is also Pizza Day this Friday!  All families are invited at 4:30 pm for our Movie Night!!  We will be showing Inside Out on a big screen in the gym!  Come in your pajamas!
We continue to discuss the changing seasons and look for signs of Spring, we will read many books about Spring and have many opportunities to get outside and explore.  We are focusing on Measurement in Math and students are beginning to use many different non-standard measuring devices to measure length such as hands, feet, books and string.  We are using measurement terms like shorter and longer.  We will prepare for our Easter Mass by completing our Alleluia crosses and discussing what the Easter season brings to us!
Have a great week!  The FDK Team!

Ms. Myers Grade One Class:

Easter continues! The children enjoyed a special “egg hunt” where they had to read the clues the Easter Bunny left for each of them in order to find their egg!  On Friday, April 8^th, we will attend our school Easter Mass. A representative from the Shepherd’s of Good Hope will pick up our Lenten food drive donations at that time. Thanks to all of you who showed such generosity!  The children had a great time investigating mini-circuits with our school “Little Bits” kits. 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. April newsletters and homework calendars went home on April 1^st. As mentioned in the newsletter, our class word wall is full!  The children will no longer be bringing home 5 words each Monday. We will work with our existing words, focusing on how they can help us read and spell new words. In math, we will finish up our work on telling time to the hour and half hour and move on to exploring coins and their value. To reinforce money concepts at home, provide your child with opportunities to count the change in your wallet, or perhaps a piggy bank…real-life experiences are so helpful!!  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. Have a great week!

Ms. Moga’s Grade Two Class:

Welcome April! Hopefully warmer days are headed our way; however, in the meantime please ensure your child is dressed accordingly for outside.

In Math, we will continue to discuss area and perimeter. We will do some more hands-on activities to help us grasp these two concepts.

In Language, we are shifting our focus to inferring (when readers think about and search the text, and sometimes use personal knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated). We will also begin a unit on persuasive writing.

In Science, we will examine solids that dissolve in water and those that don’t. We will also investigate the three states of water and what conditions make it change states.

In gym, we continue to build our fitness through running games. We will also begin some gymnastics stations (e.g. rolling, jumping and landing in different ways).

I continue to share our learning via Twitter. You can follow me @MogaOttawa to see the grade 2 class in action!

 

Mrs. Rupnik’s Primary Language Class 

Through phonics and spelling lessons (for example: rhymes, chants, word patterns, songs, etc.), the children will be introduced to five new words that will be added to our word wall this week.  In order to read and write independently, children must learn to automatically recognize and spell high-frequency words that occur in almost everything they read and write.  Help your child cut out the five new word wall cards and place them in his/her zip-lock bag provided.  Practise saying the words aloud with your child for a few minutes each evening and encourage him/her to print them out neatly in the word wall homework notebook.  Then, if time permits, try a bonus activity or two with your child.  (The bonus activity sheet is stapled on the inside cover of the word wall homework notebook.)  On Friday, the children will be assessed on the new word wall words (oral and spelling tests). 

M. Girard’s French Classes:

2e Français oral: Écouter pour apprendre et écouter pour interagir (différencier)

Français lecture:  volume Arrimage p.79 à 92 «L’album de famille»

Français écrit: «Mon ours préféré» ( courte communication écrite)

3/4e 

Français oral: audition de 8 poèmes sur la température

Français lecture: repérer dans un poème diverses images utilisées pour décrire un phénomène météo (ex. «La pluie marche tristement dans la forêt.»)  

Français écrit: création d’une toile à mots à partir d’un des phénomènes météo suivants : la neige, la pluie, le vent, le brouillard ou l’orage

4/5e Immersion   Français Oral: ligue d’impro, répondre à des questions de style «génies en herbes» (divinités grecques)

Français lecture: première étape d’un shéma du récit (Go Map) à partir d’une bande dessinée

Français écrit: révision et correction du texte de présentation d’une divinité grecque, dictée avril 4^e année : texte incluant des verbes en -er au présent , dictée 5^e : Les trois sages font du ménage.

                     April News From                    

Mrs. Manzoli’s Class

Special Events and Celebrations:           ·         Easter Mass April 8th at St. Anthony Catholic Church ·         Movie Night April 8th at 4:30 ·         Star Gymnastics begins April 12th ·         Earth Day Clean the Capital and recycle challenge April 22

Learning goals:

Religion and Family Life

We are focusing our Religion lessons with the Events leading up to 50 days of Easter and celebrating New Life.

Language

In reading we will begin learning how determining important ideas and inferring helps us in becoming a better reader.  We practice by knowing the main ideas of a text and what the author considers important.  In writing we are beginning to look at procedural texts and working on the elements of what good writing looks like.

A big focus for the next two months will be preparing for our EQAO testing that takes place at the end of May.  You can support by reviewing the best practices when answering multiple choice questions and writing responses to comprehension questions from what they read.  

Mathematics

We will begin on working on multiplication and division.  We also continue to practice daily our number sense through mad minutes and problem-solving questions.  Please review the basic addition, subtraction and multiplication facts regularly at home.

Science  

The grade 3 will begin looking at structures and mechanism and the grade 4 are learning about rocks and minerals with Mr. Chartrand.

Homework :    Homework continues to provide students with extra practice for the concepts that are covered in class.  It also involves practice for the grade 3 EQAO testing.  Please take the time to look and review homework with your children. In order to reduce paper consumption homework will continue to be in a monthly calendar format.

Agendas:  Please continue to check your child’s agenda for important information and notes.  Have your child show you their end of the week learning goals at the end of each week.   

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s Education .

M. M. Chartrand Classes

1re année

En français, we are working on the sound “ai/ei/et/è/ê”. We are reading the comptine “Filaine, Rodet

et Neige”. They are reading two books “Le Printemps” which focusses on Spring and “La Vie à l’étang”

which focusses on life cycle in the pond. In writing, we doing procedural writing such as the life cycle

of butterflies, frogs, apples, etc… .

Oral: Décris moi le cycle de vie d’un papillon.

Student: Premièrement, le papillon pond des oeufs.

Deuxième, les chenilles sortent des oeufs.

Troisième, les chenilles font des chrysalide.

Dernièrement, les papillons sortent des chrysalide.

In social studies they will continue to work on people and places in their neighbourhood and on the

needs of living things.

Here are the Word Wall Words for this month.

GRADE 1 WORD WALL WORDS

avril

Semaine 1 printemps (spring) papillon (butterfly) soleil (sun) chenille (caterpillar)

(avril 4 – avril 8)

Semaine 2 par (by) tout (all) premier (first) dernier (last)

(avril 11 ­15)

Semaine 3 ciel (sky) beaucoup (a lot) besoin (need) oeuf (egg)

 

Semaine 4 araignée (spider) baleine (whale) arbre (tree) perroquet (parrot)

 

NO MORE WORD WALL WORDS for this year. May and June will be review and testing.

4ième/5ièmeannée (Immersion)

En Science, they are beginning a unit on “L’économie d’énergie”. We have a workshop April 21

are thus preparing for the unit. This week are are focussing on what are the main types of energy

and on sources of renewable and non-renewable energy. At the end, they will design a house that

uses only renewable sources of energy depending on the location given.

4/5th grade (Math)

Our focus in the upcoming months will be measurement. Links to Nelson Math 4 and 5 are on-line at

mathK8.nelson.com. Students will learn how to estimate, measure, and record quantities, using the

metric measurement system. They will determine the relationships among units and measurable

attributes including the area of a different buildings (e.g. Parallelogram shape, area of triangles and

volume of a lake) in a city they will create on Minecraft.

5/6ième année

In French, we are beginning a unit on Superheros. Students have chosen a book and during the month

the students book report will include a “Schéma du récit” which they will present to the class. In

Social Studies, we are finishing our formative test on “La Mondialisation et le Canada dans une

économie globale”. Students have learned about the United Nations and Canada’s role and future

role. They have learned about Canada’s trading partners and multinational companies such as major

banks, Microsoft, Toyota. They have completed a mini-project on the company or their choice and

will present this week. In music, we  continue to focus on learning how to read sheet music to

play the piano.

4th/5thGrade Science (English)

In Science, the grade 4 students are completing a unit on “Rocks and Minerals”. Our focus this week

is on the many uses of rocks and minerals in our daily lives. They are designing a house using as many

different rocks and minerals as possible.

The grade 5 students have begun a unit on Understanding Matter and Energy. We are focussing on

Measuring Matter, the Physical and Chemical Changes of matter and their environmental impacts. As

we have a guest on April 20

unit by then.

Thanks,

Monsieur Chartrand

 

Happy Spring!!!!!! Happy Easter!!!!!

Hello Parents,

Is it April already?  Wow, time sure flies when you’re having fun!  Here is the latest news from our Grade 4/5 class.   

Math

We will be concluding our formal unit on multiplication & division. The goal has been for students to estimate and calculate the product of two-digit numbers and the quotient of two and three-digit numbers divided by one-digit numbers.  These skills will help your child to solve two-step word problems.  Talk to your child about situations in which you use multiplication and division in your daily life and when you might use mental computations, pencil and paper, or a calculator to find the answer.  Your child may solve questions differently from you.  It is important that your child recognizes that there are several ways of solving the same question.  Students will solve problems involving whole numbers, and describe and explain the variety of strategies used. Your child should continue to practice multiplication and division regularly to help strengthen these concepts and to allow them to apply them confidently when needed in all areas of the curriculum.

 

Our next focus in math is fractions.  I encourage your children to practice using fractions in real life situations (ie. sharing a pizza or chocolate bar, baking or when eating parts of a fruit).  The more your child uses fractions and the language related to it the more comfortable they will feel using it in their everyday lives. We will continue to incorporate the Inquiry based method in mathematics. The students will be presented with open ended problems to solve using their prior knowledge and available materials to come up with solutions.                                                                                                    

 

You may visit mathK8.nelson.com and follow the links to Nelson Mathematics 4 or 5, for more suggestions to help your child learn and practice the concepts that we are working with in class.

Language Arts:

In Language Arts the students successfully completed their procedural writing. They are proudly hanging in the junior hall for all to learn “How to…”.  During the month of April the students book report will include reading a biography about a famous person of their choice.  They will orally present their information to the class, as well as create a digital poster of their chosen person.  We look forward to learning about a variety of significant people that have made a difference in our world. Our comprehension strategy focus will be predicting.  This requires the reader to anticipate, think ahead, and hypothesize about what might happen, based on personal prior knowledge and clues the author provides. Our writing focus will by narrative.  We will read several Folk Tales and Pourquoi Tales before the students will use their creative minds to write their own Pourquoi tales.  The creative juices will be flowing in April!

 

Religion/ Family Life

 

We had a thoughtful journey throughout Lent exploring the events and bible readings of Jesus’ sacrifice.  We took the time for self-reflection so that we were truly prepared for Easter.  We now bask in the joyous events of his resurrection.

 

In Family Life we will explore the second theme “Living in Relationship.”  God created us to live in relationship with others and to respond to each other with love.  Living in relationship begins in the family, the setting in which people first learn about love.  As children grow up, friendship becomes more and more important to them.  In this theme we will be exploring both important relationships – family and friendship.

Important Dates:

April 8th – 9:00 am –  Easter Mass at St. Anthony’s Church

April 15th – PD Day – No school for the students

Thank you for your continued support in helping your child take responsibility for his/her learning through attentive listening, strong organizational skills, and task completion.  We also appreciate the healthy snacks and lunches you have been sending to school with your child so that he/she has the proper nourishment to meet the needs of a busy school day.   

Sincerely,                                                                                                                                                     

Mrs. S. Troccoli                        

Ms. Colaiacovo’s Grade 5/6 News