Welcome back folks! I would like to welcome Jacob Fraser to our class. He is a transfer student from Moncton. We are glad to have Jacob as part of our team Jacob! French - Birthdays and anniversaries will continue be the topic of discussion this week in class. Students will be reading, writing and speaking the following terms: “L’anniversaire de naissance de____ est le_____,” “joyeuse anniversaire”, “je suis né(e) en 2004 ou 2005”, etc. With 3 more weeks left until vacation, we are also continuing with the development of our draft letters to Santa/Elf on the shelf. Next week we will complete our good copy and they will be sent the North Pole before Canada Post's December 16th deadline Our French holiday dictionary is nearing completion. Students have learned many new seasonal words to add to their expanding repertoire. We will be incorporating various words into our writing pieces and singing. Please ensure reading occurs nightly and that students are recording their books into their reading logs. I have extra copies in class once their first sheet is complete. Montre et Raconte has been a great success thus far. This activity provides an authentic situation for students to describe, practice, and speak in French. Math - We continue to practice our numbers orally up to 1000 and mental math strategies (i.e. doubles +/- 1, 2 etc, making 10, estimation, rounding). Our “Tour du Monde” mental math activity has been a success with students in class and they really enjoy learning their +/- facts. I have provided a link on my page from “Learn Albera” to assist student with various math activities. I would suggest taking a look at the addition and subtraction tabs from the main menu for this week if students choose to partake. We will be writing our unit test on Friday. Estimation, addition and subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers will be the focus.  Incomplete review sheets will be sent home if not complete in class. If you would like extra examples for practice, please send me a note :) Students quizzes will be sent home today to be signed. Reminders: -   Reading is to occur nightly. Please record on sheet. -   Please sign your child’s agenda to let me know you have reviewed homework. -   Library Thursday -  St. Andrew’s Christmas Concert December 17th -  Skating commences December 18th -  December Scholastic orders due the 11th  Let's have a great week! As always if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.  

Welcome back everyone! A reminder to parents that parent- teacher interviews will be held this Thursday evening (Nov 21st) and Friday morning (Nov 22nd). There will be no school for students on Friday. Scheduled time notices for parents/guardians interviews will be sent home Wednesday along with their report card. This week is also Bully Awareness Week. Special activites will be held throughout the week to promote awareness.  French - Last week students completed a writing assignment based on their family. Students utilized their dictionary, class word wall and “ideas web” to describe and create a book based on their family. They will remain on display outside our classroom for the remainder of the week then sent home to be read. We will continue to discuss “family” as our theme once again and move on to discuss our birthdays and anniversaries time permitting. Guided reading continues. Please ensure students are reading nightly and recording their books in their record sheets. Again, these are books that have been well rehearsed in class and should take no longer than 10-15 minutes to complete. Math - This week’s focus will be on estimation as part of our 3rd unit in math. Students will enrich their vocabulary in math by learning the following terms: une estimation, estimer, une dizaine, une somme, and environ. Students will apply estimation strategies in order to predict and answer addition and subtration questions. Reminders: -  Parent-teacher interviews Thursday evening and Friday morning -  Reading is to occur nightly -  School Book Fair November 19th and 20th. Book pamphlet was sent home last week.   Let’s have a great week. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

  Welcome back! I would like to commend students for their attendance and participation in last week’s school Remembrance Day ceremony. The event went off without a hitch and was a special moment for those in attendance. French - We continue to discuss “family” as our theme this week. We will take a look at what members of our family enjoying doing during their spare time i.e. activities, clubs, special events, etc. We continue as well to develop ideas using our writing webs in order to facilitate our descriptive writing assignment about chosen members of our family. We look forward to presenting them soon J  Guided reading continues. Please ensure students are reading nightly and recording their books in their record sheets. Again, these are books that have been well rehearsed in class and should take no longer than 10-15 minutes to complete. Math - We continue to practice our numbers orally up to 100. We will now commence counting up to 1000 as I feel students have begun to master the differences between the 60 and 70 numbers as well as the difference between the 80 and 90’s which can be “tricky” at times. Our focus again will be on the mathematical terms/vocabulary and continue to incorporate written sentences into our responses. Reminders:  - Sign and return parent-teacher interview notice sent home on Friday. - Reading is to occur nightly. Please ensure books are signed and returned. Let’s have a great week. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.  

  Welcome to our 9th week of school. Time has gone by quickly. I am extremely impressed with the level of French your child has learned thus far. Safe to say they are over their “first initial phase” towards becoming fluent students. Let’s keep up the good work J    French - This week we will be wrapping up our theme on animals and moving on to discuss families. Last week, students were taught how to use our class set of French dictionaries in order to assist them in their very first piece of writing.  We are going through the writing steps process as we progress with our vocabulary and terminology. It is very exciting to see the progress your child has made. Their first piece of writing was all about a “weird” animal they had to create and describe.   Also, Daily 5/guided reading has commenced. I began last week by demonstrating what is expected of students during this time. Further explanation of this procedure will be given during parent teacher interviews or via e-mail if you are curious as to what takes place. This time essentially provides me the opportunity to read and work with a group of students, while the others are tasked with various activities.   Math - Today we had a small class quiz on number up to 1000 (place value, numbers greater then/less than, etc.) to wrap up our first unit in math. We will now be moving on to tackle mental math strategies up to 2 digits, along with addition and subtraction of 3 digits numbers where the final answer can be as high as 1000.   As always, we continue to practice numbers orally up to 100. Students have caught on quickly and are all doing well.  We continue to practice every day during our morning routine and math classes.   Reminders:   Reading is to occur nightly. Please record on sheet.   Reading bags are to be returned daily   Please sign your child’s agenda to let me know you have reviewed homework   Halloween Jamboree Thursday, October 31st. Orange memo sheet was sent home last Thursday.   Let's have a great week! As always if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.   

Picture retake day will be Thursday, October 24th for those who returned their child's form and indicated "retake" on it.

Welcome back from Thanksgiving weekend! I look forward to hearing everyone's stories from their extended weekend. I hope you enjoyed the "Dans mon sac d'école" Photostory video. Throughout the year, we will continue to utilize technology as much as possbile to expand our learning en Français. French - This week our theme will be all about "pets" Students will learn to identify various animals, express which one's they prefer, and describe in detail a pet of their choice. For example, students will learn to say the following: "mon animal préféré est...", "il s'appelle", "je n'ai pas...", "je veux avoir", etc. Please continue and read, record, and return your child's book along with his agenda and letter sheet daily. We will soon commence guided reading once the nightly reading books have been completed. Remember as well to continue reading the sound sheet of the night (placed in agenda) and review les "mots outils" located inthe box on the bottom of the sheet. Our word quiz will be on Friday. Math - We continue to practice our numbers orally up to 100 in class. Please refer to my web links in order to practice at home. Also, we will continue to work on our numbers unit in math. Last week we completed another 2 lessons. Students continue to review how to represent numbers symbolically and pictorially using base ten units. By Friday, my goal is to complete our first unit. Practice sheets will be sent how the following week in order to practice for our unit quiz. NOTICES:   * October Scholastic orders due Friday, October 18th Let's have a great week! As always, if you have any questions, comments and/or concerns, please contact me :) Cheers.