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Posted on April 10, 2016 by mcguirp

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.

Miss Parmiss has taken her leave from us, for now. She is returning to classes at the University of Ottawa for a couple of weeks and will come back to us when she has finished there. We will look forward to her return!

Tomorrow, we will have a special visit from Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Henry Burris to speak to the students about a football camp that he is involved with. We are excited to welcome Mr. Burris to our school community!

Students are reminded to continue to dress for the (crazy!!!!) erratic weather conditions that we have been experiencing…..hopefully, Mother Nature will lighten up on us very soon! Parents and students are also reminded of the importance of attending school regularly and being on time. As we enter this very important final stretch of the school year, there is a lot of valuable information and curriculum to cover. Thanks for your support in this area as well.
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St. Anthony Connects – the week of April 4 – 8

Posted on April 3, 2016 by mcguirp

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

The grade 5/6 class has sprung into the new season with energy and enthusiasm! We congratulate the nine students who received the Sacrament of Confirmation from Archbishop Prendergast at St. Anthony parish on Saturday, April the 2nd! The students modelled confidence and maturity as they celebrated this very special milestone in their faith journey.

Work in mathematics continues to focus on solving problems using the operations of multiplication and division. Our grade 6 students continue learning about electricity with Miss Parmiss, our student teacher. We continue to work on different “fix-up” strategies to strengthen pieces of writing in language arts, in anticipation, especially, of the forthcoming EQAO testing for the grade 6 students. Our religion focus has been the Lenten season and we will continue to examine the wonder of Jesus’ resurrection during this Easter season. The grade 5/6 students have been learning about the use and misuse and the effects of alcohol and drugs during health lessons and this strand will continue through the month of April.

Our junior division students enjoyed a month of intermural basketball competition and many of the students will continue to practice to represent the school at the Board tournaments later this month.

We will bid a fond farewell to Miss Parmiss, as her practicum assignment winds to an end this week. We hope that she will be able to come back and continue working with students again, and we wish her well on her next year in the Bachelor of Education program and her future endeavours!

The bi-weekly Papa Jack fundraiser for the grade six year-end trip continues to be a success. We thank all parents in the school community for your continued support.

St. Anthony Connects – The week of March 29 – April 1

Posted on March 28, 2016 by mcguirp

St. Anthony This Week

Tuesday, March 29

Orkidstra in learning commons

Wednesday, March 30

Wastefree Wednesday Today

Ms. Rupnik’s March homework calendars are due back at school on Wednesday, March 30,

Orkidstra at Cambridge

Thursday, March 31

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

Ms. Manzoli’s Homework calendars are due Thursday March 31st

MASC performance ” Camping Royale” Kindergarten to grade 6 in the gym – 9:00 am

Orkidstra in learning commons

School Council Meeting – 6:30 – 7:30

Help Organize the April Movie Night.

There will be a Movie Night on April 8, and we need we need help to organize it!

Organizing Meeting is on this Thursday March 31, 6:30pm.

Friday, April 1

Kindness Project with Lindsey Barr and Mrs. Rupnik’s classes

Pizza Day

Teacher Notes for this week

FDK News for March 29-April 1, 2016

Happy Easter! We wish you the best of the Easter season to you and your family. We will begin to celebrate new life and new beginnings as we look for special signs around us. It will be a short week at St Anthony Catholic. We hope to get out more in our community for neighborhood walks as we look for signs of Spring! We will also wake up our hibernating bears on Friday April 1st.
We will continue to read about Easter, Spring and new life. We also continue our fire safety inquiry. Please watch for a permission form this week as we prepare for our visit to the Fire Station #11 on Preston St.
Have a great week! the FDK team!

Ms. Myers’ Grade One Class

Happy Easter! This is the greatest feast in our church and we will celebrate for 50 days! This week we will explore the Easter story, focusing on the joy of the Resurrection. Our Lenten journey has ended but we will continue to accept canned food donations until April 1^st. Again, thank you for all your support! This Thursday we will enjoy a special theatre production at school called “Camping Royale.” It promises to be a “one of a kind” fairy tale incorporating both drama and dance. Remember to ask your child about it! In science we continue our learning about energy. We will use our school “Little Bits” kits to create mini circuits! Please ensure your child returns their March homework this week as we are heading (very quickly it seems!) into April! Have a great week!

Ms. Moga’s Grade 2 Class:

Happy Easter! I hope everyone enjoyed a great extra long weekend. Our Lenten Journey has come to an end as we celebrate the Easter season. In the classroom, the students finished the week by making Holy Week Wreaths which displayed the events of Holy Week and Easter.

This week in Language, we will be wrapping up our unit on procedural writing. The students will write one more procedural writing piece.

In Math, students will learn to estimate, measure and record perimeter and area using standard units. In Science, the students have learned about the properties of solids and liquids. This week the students will look at the properties of gases, including an experiment to further our understanding.

In Religion, we shift our focus to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus; we will discuss why we take part in mass and why symbols are important for helping us remember and celebrate Easter.

Lastly, we will take some time this week to focus on Health. We will be discussing how to live a “balanced life” (e.g. being active and moderating screen time) and the importance of this to one’s health.

Have a wonderful week!

Mrs. Rupnik’s Class

I hope you enjoyed the long Easter weekend with your family and friends. This week in the Primary Language Class, we will review the concept of big deal/little deal as part of our Social Language activities. This concept helps students distinguish what is important from what is not important so that they can be less anxious about situations of lesser importance and take seriously situations of greater importance. A new book by Jeanie Ransom titled “Don’t Squeal Unless It’s A Big Deal” will be the read to the class throughout the week. Please remember that completed March homework calendars are due back at school on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. Please take some time this week to read our March class newsletter. New April homework calendars will be sent home on Friday, April 1, 2016.

M. Girard’s French classes:

2e Français oral: La météo quotidienne (évaluation des bulletins météo) à l’aide du site «Environnement Canada»

Français lecture: choix d’un «T’choupi» et lecture attentive

Français écrit: résumer le début, le développement et la fin (Go Map)du T’choupi de ton choix

3/4e

Français écrit: rédaction du texte de l’affiche présentant les résultats de l’enquête

Études Sociales : processus d’enquête –inquiry «Les activités humaines ont un impact sur notre environnement

4/5e Immersion Français Oral: un autre épisode de la série Mission XY (TFO) et discussions

Français lecture: préparation des questions/réponses pour le génie en herbes portant sur les divinités grecques

Français écrit: fin de la rédaction d’un texte de présentation d’une divinité grecque Études sociales : amphores grecques antiques et motifs géométriques Éducation Physique : exercices variés avec des élastiques

Joyeuses Pâques!

Manzoli Stars this week…

Welcome to the last week of March. Last week we journeyed through the last days of Jesus and had an opportunity to learn the sufferings he went through leading to his crucifixion. We heard stories and journeyed through the stations of the cross to better understand such a Paschal Mystery. As we enter into the Easter season we continue to journey through the resurrection of Jesus and the new life he brings to us. During Religion, we will complete our story of “Benjamin’s Box”.

As we move forward this week we also continue to work on our narrative stories. Students have been working diligently using the writing process to create their stories (Plan, first draft, revise, edit and publish). We will be moving into procedural writing next. We will also be having a word quiz on Friday. Students should be practising these words during the week as part of their homework routines. In Reading, we work on comprehension of the text and fluency. Students continue to read to self every morning as part of their morning routines, continue to encourage your children that reading should be done on a regular basis at home too.

In Math last week we explored symmetry in shapes and figures. This week we will explore how shapes and figures turn, flip and slide along a grid. This will end our unit on geometry. We will be moving into multiplication and division next.

In Science in Grade 3 students will begin their next unit on Structures and mechanisms, we will be building a structure made out of recycled material. Students are asked to bring in material that can be recycled for this project.

We have begun our dance unit in gym, students are working in teams to create a 3-minute dance. On Thursday we will be able to experience a form of dance and drama in a performance called

“Camping Royale Theatre”

LEARNING GOAL

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of dance and drama through critiquing a performance, engaging in curriculum-centred activities, and creating and performing themselves

I would like to wish all families a Happy Easter season!

Reminders:

Homework calendars are due Thursday March 31st

Our latest video from the St. Anthony Makerspace

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this video was made by one of our students!

St. Anthony Connects – The Week of April 13 – 17

Posted on April 13, 2015 by mcguirp

Congratulations to the grade 4/5 class and Nora and Sandra for winning the Bright Ideas Contest! $1000.00 for St. Anthony Greening! Terrific work!

St. Anthony This Week April 13 – 17

Monday, April 13

Chad Wolfe in for Juniors

Little Horn Theatre

* MUSIC/FIDDLE WITH

CHAD WOLFE St.

Anthony’s

9:45-10:00 recess

10:00-10:40 (24) Gr 4/5

10:40-11:15 (24) Gr 5/6) *get ready for lunch

upon dismissal

11:15-12:15 LUNCH

Hip Hop Club

Tuesday, April 14

Easter Mass at St. Anthony

chess Club

Table Tennis – 3:15

Wednesday, April 15

Thursday, April 16

Young Rembrandts 3:15

Friday, April 17

Chad Wolfe at St. Anthony – KP and Primary

Little Horn Theatre

* MUSIC/FIDDLE WITH CHAD

WOLFE St. 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

Teacher notes for the week of April 13 – 17

Ms Rupnik’s Class

Reminder that Retelling Journals with the story ‘There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick’ are due back on Monday, April 13. We will introduce narrative writing this week. Narrative writing gives students the opportunity to be creative and tell/write a story. We will begin this unit by looking at different stories and identifying components of a good narrative (for example: characters, settings, problems, sequence of events, solutions). Take the time this week to tell a story or two to your childabout a moment or event that means a lot to you.

Ms Myers Class

Happy Easter! 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! As well, we have decorated a beautiful Easter Tree to celebrate this special season of Easter. On Tuesday, April 14^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! Next week we will participate in a special “Maker Space” that is connected to our science inquiry about energy. The children will be working with circuits to see how electricity is conducted. In math, we continue to work with money – working specifically on recognizing the value of each coin. To reinforce these 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!!

M Girard’s Classes

2/3e Listening/Speaking to interact: asking and answering questions about ants and life in a anthill

4/5e Études Sociales: premières civilisations-distinguer les modes de vie des anciens Grecs et Chinois (nourriture et habitations)

5/6e Études Sociales: Les Amérindiens et la Nouvelle-France-épidémies et population huronne

4e Immersion Arts: réflexions sur la vie et l’oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh, Théâtre: initiation à l’impro

Où est le soleil du printemps? Did you see it?

Mr Cook’s Class

This week’s word wall words will be: INTO, DOWN, WORK, PARK, and FUNNY. In Math we will focus on 3-D shapes this week. The students find it very neat how many shapes there are and how many shapes we use to build stuff with. I encourage you to challenge your child to find as many 2-D and 3-D shapes at home and in your neighbourhoods. In language, we will learn more about persuasive writing (how to convince someone to let you do something). We will work in our language stations and do some work with our new word wall words. In science, we are studying liquids and solids. We hope to be doing a couple of experiments in class! We will also continue with our religion lessons geared towards preparing our grade 2 students for their Reconciliation and First Communion. Some of the students still have library books that have not been returned. We have library every Monday and they can only take out a new book if they have returned the one they already have. Please check your child’s bag and ask them if they have their library book. Let’s hope Mother Nature is on our side and we get nice, warm, sunny weather! God Bless!

Ms Manzoli’s class

Welcome to the Easter season, we will be celebrating on Tuesday April 14 at 9:00 am at St. Anthony Catholic Church. April is poetry month the class will be listening and reading various styles of poetry and in writing will create acrostic poems for Earth Day. In math, we have been learning about fractions, reinforce this concept at home using everyday things. The terms we have learned are one half, one quarter, one eighth and a whole. This week we will begin our new unit in family life, take some time to talk to your children about questions they may be wondering about. Have a great week.

Mrs. Manzoli

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