We began our week with a fantastic visit to Starr Gymnastics on Monday! The students enjoyed balancing, climbing, jumping, and the rope swing. We are fortunate to have one more visit this Monday morning as well.

Writing-  This week I will model descriptive (informative) writing and we will write a shared descriptive piece as a class.

Reading- we will read Nonfiction text and learn how to use the various features (e.g. index, glossary, table of contents).

Math- we will make pictographs and interpret data on a calendar.

Science- we will explore and discuss how animals can be harmful to humans. We will also discuss ways in which humans impact the lives of animals.

Religion- We will read the story of The Prodigal Son and discuss forgiveness.

Art- We will discuss and begin to create a piece using different drawing techniques (e.g. foreground and background).

Ms. Moga

Grade 3 Ms Solymar

Mrs. Rupnik’s Class

This week in the Primary Language Class, we will continue our Social Language activities with Room 14, focusing on the theme of caring and sharing.

 

We will also begin to work on descriptive writing. This form of writing focuses on using details (adjectives) to describe events, people, or objects.   We will explore different oral language activities first like the game ‘Guess What’, which involves students secretly describing an object, as descriptively as possible, and then have other students try to guess the object.

 

What fun we had last Monday morning at our first Starr Gymnastic session. Students tried different equipment and explored different gymnastic movements while physically learning basic linguistic concepts like backwards/forwards, before/after, through/ between, behind, etc. We will return on Monday, November 21 for more fun and learning. Reminder: Students are encouraged to dress in comfortable clothing.

 

On Thursday, November 24 and Friday November 25, we welcome Roberta LeBlanc, a dairy educator, to St. Anthony Catholic School. She will deliver interactive presentations to our students related to dairy farming, milk’s role in healthy living, etc.  Ask your child about the presentation. 

 

M. Nixon’s Extended French Class

We had another fun week in grades 3, 4, 5, and 6!

Grade 3: Students loved singing and dancing to the “aller” (to go) and “avoir” (to have) verb songs in class in order to introduce them to how to conjugate these two verbs. We also created our own “assiettes des verbes” (verb plates) beginning with the verb “aller” as a craft project that students enjoyed making. These plates were also used as a tool for students to test each other’s knowledge of the verb conjugations in teams of 2 as part of in class and online digital verb games. Bon travail à tous et chacun!

Next week:

French Language: Students will work on in class activities related to the conjugation of the verb

aller (to go) and avoir (to have) and begin placing them within sentence structures.

Grade 4/5: Students loved singing the catchy French hymn’L’oiseau et l’enfant’. This song  follows a child whose desire to change the world is inspired by nature and imagination through the flight of a bird she sees in the sky.

We also created our own “assiettes des verbes” (verb plates) beginning with the verb “aller” as a craft project that students enjoyed. These plates later became a tool for students to test each other’s knowledge of the verb. Teams of 2-4 students participated in games to help recall their knowledge of how to use the verb in various sentence structures. For social studies, students began to conduct their own online research using suggested web links in class to describe daily life of “les civilisations anciennes” (ancient civilisations); in order to compare life in a past civilization to modern Canadian society. Super travail!

Next Week:

French Language: Students will work on in class activities related to the conjugation of the verb aller (to go) and avoir (to have) and apply them both within various sentence structures.

Social Studies: Students will continue their research on the subject of daily life in an ancient civilization, and finish writing and editing their findings to publish in their digital portfolios.

Music: Students will continue practicing the lyrics of’L’oiseau et l’enfant’. Grade 5/6: Students loved singing the catchy French hymn ‘L’oiseau et l’enfant’. This song is a follows a child whose desire to change the world is inspired by nature and imagination through the flight of a bird she sees in the sky.

We also created our own “assiettes des verbes” (verb plates) beginning with the verb “aller” as a craft project that students enjoyed. These plates later became a tool for students to test each other’s knowledge of the verb. Teams of 2-4 students participated in games to help recall their knowledge of how to use the verb in various sentence structures. For social studies, students began to collect pictures and descriptions about the different ethnic, religious, and cultural communities found in Canada in order to create both a digital image and word collage of Canada’s diversity. Magnifique travail!

Next week:

French Language: Students will work on in class activities related to the conjugation of the verb aller (to go) and avoir (to have) and apply them both within various sentence structures.

Social Studies: Students will continue their research about Canada’s diverse communities, and finish creating their digital collages to publish in their digital portfolios.

Music: Students will continue practicing the lyrics of ‘oiseau et l’enfant’

M Chartrand Classes

This week in Mr. Chartrand’s classes, we went to Starr Gymnastics with the grade 1/2 class and at the Canadian Tire Centre with my 4/5 Immersion class to see the Ottawa 67’s and Peterborough Petes.  Both groups enjoyed their outings, here are a few pictures:

Starr Gymnastics

We even met our former students now at Notre Dame.

1re année

En français, we are finishing our work on the sound “eu”.  We will focus on the sounds “é” and “è” afterwards.  Students that are being reinforced at home are doing a great job recognizing all the sounds and the word wall words.  We are already at the week 4 words which are: nous, vous, cinq, quarante, carte.  

En écriture, we our practicing writing avec les verbes en ‘er”:  aimer, aider, jouer.

Ex.:  J’aime jouer au hockey.  J’aide maman.  Nous jouons au basketball.  Mr. Chartrand m’aide avec ma dictée. Etc….

En oral, the students are finishing their personal description about themselves with their home address, telephone number and birthdate.

En lecture, on continue à lire nos livres sur les modes de transportation et la comptine “Devine un peu”.

En sciences sociales, the grades 1’s are continuing to focus on what services and buildings are in neighbourhood and Ottawa while the grade 2’s are comparing Canada with other countries in the world.  We our learning about Northern Canada, in particular Nunavut and the effects of living in the Great White North.  We are learning about local Inuit culture, clothing, arts and crafts, food, shelter, etc…

I have sent home High-Frequency Word Book and Guided reading books.  Please continue to practice reading these books with your child.  Here is a reminder of the two books that your child is reading at school and should have at home.

 

4ième/5ième année (Immersion)

En Science,  our next science unit will begin in a week or two:  Les Roches et les Minéraux.  I am planning a trip to the museum of nature to see their rock collections.  We will be beginning with the rock cycle.

En Sciences Sociales, we are finishing our unit on the Physical Regions of Canada.  Examples of work are on the ”Le Canada” board in the hallway outside my classroom.  We have finished “Vor visite le Canada”.  Kahoot was used as a formative assessment tool.  The students did very well.  Now the final summative task is at hand.

En Français,  Since our unit “Au Restaurant” is done.  Students will now use the Green Screen app Do ink.

Our week 4 dictée will be Friday as usual.  The words are: fertile, conifères, feuillus, hydroélectricité, monnaie, marécages. La dictée this week was very well done.  Continue helping your child with their vocabulary words.  

In writing, they will be writing about what they would like to be when they grow up to supplement what they did in Mrs. Trocoli classroom.  We will also do a summative task about the live streaming of the Polar Bears in Churchill.

Seesaw

Students have begun using Seesaw.  All of their work will eventually be on the class website.  My blog will also be on-line.  Here is the link: https://blog.seesaw.me/mrdchartrand

Here’s Deborah taking a picture of her art work.  She then wrote a caption followed by an oral description of her picture.

En Arts, Musique, Drame, Dance:, we will finally get to focus on the Arts.  We will draw a monochromatic 3d picture of Albert Einstein.   

En Dance, students have now picked a melody for their creative Dance.  

En musique,  I will start teaching them the piano.  Each student will be responsible to play 1 song from the play “Le Petit Prince”.

Merci,

Chartrand

 

M Girard’s French Classes

2/3^e Français oral : présentation des personnages de la pièce «Dans les nuages», répétition des chansons de la pièce, téléfrançais 11

Lecture : «les avions» (Visages 2, p.48) et questions de compréhension

Écriture : étude des structures écrites pour répondre à des questions (Qui ?, Quand ? Où ? Quoi ? Pourquoi ?)

3^e Théâtre : lecture et geste de la pièce d’introduction «Vive les oiseaux!», présentation des personnages de la pièce «Dans les nuages», répétition des chansons de la pièce.

 5/6e Immersion

Français oral : Je parle à l’écho (préparation à un match d’improvisation), audition d’un conte (Le chat botté)

Français lecture : le royaume p. 46 à 50 (conclusion) et test-maison de compréhension

Français écrit : dictées 5^e et 6^e (mardi 22 nov.)

Musique : flûte à bec; suite folklorique en sol majeur (3e partie)

Sciences : rédaction d’un rapport de laboratoire

Nov. 21 – Nov. 25th

Mrs. Troccoli’s Grade 4/5 Team News

The last full week of November! Wow! Let’s see how long this spring like weather can keep us company! Gotta love it!

The junior division enjoyed a great time at the Ottawa 67s hockey game! They were joined by 16,000 other students in cheering our team to victory against the Peterborough Pete’s hockey team. They also received some healthy tips as they watched the energy level the players needed to maintain as they competed at such a high level of sport.

In math, the students have begun exploring patterns.  They have been creating growing, shrinking and repeating patterns.  They will be challenged to look for patterns in more difficult inquiries while organizing their thinking in T-charts. Students should be looking for patterns in their environment so that they realize it is not limited to working with patterns in the classroom.

In language, we have added “Work on Writing” to our daily 5 centres.  We have been focussing on proofreading their written work so that ideas are clear and editing to catch errors in grammar and spelling.  We continue to use the read and write app on our chromebooks to help with this focus. We continue with our guided reading groups.  Students are encouraged to be active readers and ask themselves questions while reading to help them understand the text.

Students should be practicing for their booktalk and using the rubric included in their homework book to guide them in preparing for their presentation starting the week of November the 28th.

The student’s work folders will be coming home on Monday with work and assessments the students have completed over the past month.  Please review the work with your child, sign and return it to school.  

We look forward to having Mr. Moleski back in our class on Wednesday to work on the skill of summarizing using the Read and Write app on the chromebooks.   

Have a great week!

Together Everyone Achieves More!

Mrs Colaiacovo’s Grade five-six news

Once again, grade 5/6  enjoyed a very busy and fun-filled week and we find ourselves almost at the end of November.How quickly time passes! During the past week the students worked to complete their Remembrance Day stories, wrote postcards to veterans and began journal entries about the Ottawa 67’s amazing victory over the Peterborough Petes that we were lucky enough to witness! Our new language focus in the coming week will be the December book talk assignment, for which the students will receive the outline on Monday.

The students continue to learn about patterning from Mr. Bannan and will be moving into algebra this coming week. The biodiversity unit will wrap early in the week and we will begin the Space unit in grade 6 science.

The boys volleyball team worked as a cohesive unit at Thursday’s tournament and proudly came up with a second place finish! Our next sports tournaments will be in the new year, so we are afforded a bit of a break for now.

We are looking forward to another great week of learning!