St. Anthony This Week

Monday, April 11

Henry Burris from the Ottawa RedBlacks will be hosting a kids football camp – at St. Anthony on Monday at 12:20 PM

Henry Burris from the Ottawa RedBlacks will be hosting a kids football camp (May 15th at TD Place.) in partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa. The camp is open to children between the ages of 8-14 and there is no cost for the event

Tuesday, April 12

Starr Gymnastics Program comes to St. Anthony

Orkidstra today

Wednesday, April 13

Starr Gymnastics Program continues at  St. Anthony

Wastefree Wednesday

Orkidstra today at Cambridge

Thursday, April 14

Starr Gymnastics continues at St. Anthony

Papa Jack Popcorn

Starr Gymnastics Program continues at  St. Anthony

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

Orkidstra today

Friday, April 15

PD Day – no school today

Catholic Education Week 2016

Teacher notes for the week of April 11 – 15 

FDK News for April 11-15

Let’s hope for a week of Spring weather to melt away all the snow!  We are still searching for signs of Spring, which was a bit tricky last week after all of the new snow!   Thank you for sending warm clothes, snow pants, warm mitts and hats as we wait for the weather to warm up! We enjoyed our Easter Mass on Friday and we listened very attentively to all of the readers, Father Felix and our wonderful songs.  Some of our FDK students participated in the mass by offering the gifts and walking in our opening procession.  Our FDK students are always amazed at the beauty of St Anthony Church and how special they feel to be part of the community.
This is a short week of learning.  PD Day on Friday April 15, 2016.  We will have three gymnastics sessions this week, starting on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday led by qualified instructors from Starr Gymnastics.  Please dress your child in comfortable clothing and running shoes.  Have a great week!  The FDK Team!

Ms Myers’ Grade One Class

Our “Scientists in the Schools” workshop was a great success!  Thank you to the parents who volunteered their time to help facilitate our learning for the afternoon.  We will wrap up our unit on energy this week by planting scarlet runner bean seeds. This will give us an opportunity to observe, first hand, how the sun is our main source of energy. We will also try out the pin-wheels the children constructed….whenever the weather cooperates!!  As Earth Day approaches (April 22^nd), we will focus on the importance of conserving energy in an effort to care for the earth. We are currently collecting materials for our school-wide “Earth Day” challenge – building a sculpture from recyclable materials. Our school’s “Green Team” will judge each class sculpture on Earth Day. In math, we continue our learning about money concepts. In language, we will focus on how punctuation marks are like “traffic lights” for readers and writers – giving us clues when to stop, sound excited, take a pause, or know when a question is being asked.  As you read with your child each night, draw attention to these written “traffic lights” to increase your child’s awareness of punctuation. A reminder that this Friday, April 15,  is a PD day. There is no school for students on this day. The “Wonderful Ones” are attempting to “encourage” spring by creating tissue paper flowers with spring messages…let’s hope it works! Have a good week!

Ms. Moga’s Grade Two News

Last week, the Grade 2’s demonstrated the values of “I Care” throughout the week and therefore our class won the St. Anthony Superstars of the Week Award! Good work Grade 2’s!

We have a busy week ahead in grade 2. Along with patiently awaiting Spring’s arrival, here are a few things to remember:

April 12-14: Starr Gymnastics

April 14: Papa Jack Popcorn

April 15: PD Day (no school)

Homework: congratulations grade 2’s, we have now learned all the word wall words! The writing part of the homework for the rest of the year will be a review of all the words. You will continue to receive 1-2 sheets for math as well. If you are looking for more practice at home, I encourage students to complete 1 reading response a week. I will include a new copy of that paper at the front of each students’ homework book.

In Language, we will continue making inferences when reading. In writing, we will continue with persuasive writing. We brainstormed a list of topics we may want to write a persuasive letter about. This week we will write a class letter together and read texts to help further understanding of this writing form.

In Math, we will continue with fractions. In grade 2, students are required to understand which fractions is bigger (e.g. one-half of a square or one-fourth of a square); regroup fractional parts into wholes; and to compare fractions using concrete materials (e.g., use fraction pieces to show that three-fourths are bigger than one-half, but smaller than one whole). We will continue to use hands-on activities, iPads (on Mathletics), and whole-group discussion to deepen our understanding of these concepts.

Have a fantastic week!

Ms. Moga

Mrs. Rupnik’s Class 

In our Social Language program this week, we will role-play taking part in discussions appropriately (i.e., making eye contact, taking conversational turns, adding to what has already been said, etc.). You may want to practise this skill at home too. The children will also continue to create their very own pic collage on our class ipads with personal photographs and phrases (i.e., interests/hobbies, best school memories, accomplishments, goals, friendships, etc.). The collages will then be uploaded to the individual student e-portfolios. Please remember that St. Anthony Catholic School is closed this Friday, April 15for PD day.

M. Girard’s Classes for this week

2e Français oral: Téléfrançais, donner son opinion

Français lecture:  volume Arrimage p.93-94 «Trois ours canadiens»

Français écrit: «L’habitat et la diète de mon ours préféré»

 (courte communication écrite)

3/4e 

Français oral: Bulletin météo général pour tout le pays

Français lecture: visiter cinq (5) stations de phénomène météo et collecte de matériel pour l’écriture d’une poésie

Français écrit: techniques diverses pour regrouper le matériel dans le but d’écrire une ou des strophes (ressemblance, progression, rimes etc.)

4/5e Immersion   Français Oral: ligue d’impro (4 match), «Génies en herbes» (divinités grecques)

Français lecture: à partir d’une bande dessinée, faire une liste d’objets qui semblent importants dans le récit  

Français écrit: rédaction d’une poésie dont le sujet est un phénomène météo et notion de rythme dans une strophe, la tribu des noms, la petite tribu des articles et les magasins d’adjectifs (D’après «La grammaire est une chanson douce» par Erik Orsenna) 

This week in the Grade 3 / 4 class….

We ended our week last week with a beautiful Easter Mass on Friday.  The students did a fabulous job listening to the prayers and singing the song we have been learning over the past few weeks.  Well done boys and girls!!

This week the students look forward to another short week due to Fridays PD day.

As we look at this week’s activities we have some interesting visitors visiting our school.

Beginning with Monday, we have the opportunity to meet the startup quarterback from our Ottawa Redblacks Henry Burris who will come to speak to the students about a wonderful opportunity for them to participate in a football camp running for boys and girls ages 8 to 14.  We look forward to his presentation.  Starr Gymnastics is coming to St. Anthony’s on Tuesday.  The students will be learning various moves and jumps to promote daily physical activity.  

Our learning this week….

In Language this week we begin looking at the elements of procedural writing and will be creating some examples of this type of writing.  

The grade 3 students will also be looking at some EQAO writing questions and be able to use what they know in their practice booklets. EQAO dates are as follows:  May 25, 26, 27 and 31 June 1 and 2. A reminder that children are expected to be at school on these days.  Any missed days the students will need to complete their test upon their return to school.

Children were assigned a book report last week. They should be completing their reading in order to complete their reports by April the 15th.

In Mathematics we have begun with multiplication and have started practising our 2 and 3 times tables. It is very important that the students continue practicing this concept at home.  The goal for this week is to look at various strategies to remember our facts.  Reminder that students should be accessing their mathletics and prodigy accounts to further their practice in these skills.

Science

Thank you for all the recycled material that the students brought in last week.  This week we will begin creating our plan with the help of our grade 5 /6 class on our sculpture in preparation for  celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd.

Have a great week!

Reminders:

• Library book return
• Papa Jack popcorn on sale on Thursday
• PD day on Friday
• Book report due April 18  

April 11 – April 15

Mrs. Troccoli’s Grade 4/5 Team News

The freshly fallen snow did not dampen our spirits as the St. Anthony School  Community celebrated a beautiful Easter Mass at St. Anthony Church this past Friday. The Easter season continues as we bask in the joys of this wonderful time of year.

In Math, we spent the week reviewing multiplication and division to make sure the students have mastered these very important skills. The students will be formally tested this coming Tuesday.  

Students should continue to practice their math facts regularly to aid in all areas of the math curriculum.

The students were given plenty of class time to work on the outline for the book report they are completing on a biography.  The rough outline should be completed and now they need to organize their information in preparation for their oral book talk. They must be ready to present their book report by April 25th. There will also be a media component to the project where they will be creating a digital poster.

We were again fortunate to have Mr. Moleski, a technology specialist from the board, visit our classroom this past Wednesday.   He has been helping the students use the resources available on their Chromebooks, especially the Read and Write application.  He worked on the research tool available to help the students with their biography research. This coming Wednesday he will visit to help with the media component of their biography project. Ask your child to share all the interesting information they have learned about his/her chosen person.

A reminder that there is a PD day on Friday so there will be no school for the students.

Have a wonderful week!

Together Everyone Achieves More

Ms. Colaiacovo’s Grade 5/6 class:

The grade 5/6 class welcomed Mr. Moleski back this past Wednesday to further investigate ways in which we can put our class technology to its best use. The students have begun researching and developing arguments to defend their opinions on recent developments at the provincial and federal governments levels. This persuasive writing activity will continue into the coming week and I expect that we will hear some insightful and informed opinions from the students.

We continue our work on multiplication of whole numbers and will begin multiplying decimal numbers as well, before looking more closely at long division strategies. 

Grade 6 students worked with Miss Parmiss to construct open and closed circuits during science lessons. This week, we will investigate ways in which electrical energy is produced and used, and will begin to examine ways to conserve electrical energy.

The school community celebrated a beautiful Easter mass together on Friday at St. Anthony’s Church and then reconvened in the evening to enjoy the screening of “Inside Out” in the gym, put on by the parent council. Many thanks to the student volunteers (Justin, Michael, Rachel, Anarissa, Dorian and Joshua) who returned to sell popcorn and drinks to the hungry movie-goers. We will sell Papa Jack popcorn again on Thursday, April 14 at lunch time in a continued effort to raise funds for the grade 6 graduation trip. Many thanks for your continued support towards this effort.