French:  We are discussing our families and continuing to write our autobiographies.  This week we have started Daily 5!  Everyone is doing a great job too!  "Read to self" (lecture à soi) has been going great.  Read to someone is on the agenda for Thursday & Friday and i'm sure that will go great as well.  For sounds, we are almost done the alphabet and moving on to some common sounds we have already seen in our reading and writing (eau/au/o/ô & on/om).  Math:  The class did very well on the first unit test and we are jumping right into "Numbers to 1000" (place value, base ten blocks, pictures, money etc.)  For this unit it is important to be confident with numbers to 100 as we will be seeing big numbers regularly. Homework Read nightly (record on reading sheet)Practice new letter/soundMath sheet (First part Wednesday & second part Thursday night)**Several notices went home today regarding: Scholastic book orders (Due Nov. 18th), Upcoming Book FairSkating schedule (Dec. 18th is our first trip to the rink)Our Remembrance Day ceremony will take place Friday morning.

The math sheet tonight is two questions that we have done numerous times in class.  This time we just have to do it with decreasing patterns.  For number one, they need to draw the 2 next figures (pictures) in the pattern they were given.For number two, they write the pattern rule for the patterns above (See the keyword -in bold below- that has changed with decreasing patterns).   ex: À partir de _____ soustrais ____ chaque fois.Have a great weekend!

Reminders - Picture retakes are Thursday Oct. 24th- Ten days until Halloween! FrenchStudents can now introduce & describe themselves, so we have started to write our autobiographies! The front and back covers of their books were done in Art class on Friday & chapter 1 (Moi) is almost ready. We are finishing up our discussion on chapter 2 (mes préférences) & will be writing it soon! So exciting!Read every night, record on book sheet.Read over/practice letter/sound sheets of the day (T, G, H, N, D)Review 'Mots courants' words for spelling test (Wednesday, Oct. 23)MathWe have been working on Identifying, extending & creating increasing patterns (shapes & numbers).We will be moving on to Identifying, extending & creating decreasing patterns for the rest of the week. There is a lot of vocabulary to learn in this unit but they are doing well! There will be a practice sheet Tuesday to review increasing patterns & Thursday to try out their skills with decreasing patterns.

Welcome back after a fantastic long weekend!  Halloween is just around the corner now!Today students will not have a new sound to give them time to review the sounds to date and the words for last week.  We will be having our weekly quiz tomorrow on numbers to 79 & the following words:                                    soi, sa, sur, ces, il, elle, il/elle va, je vais, son, estAs always, each night this week students will have a book to read, a new sound/letter (except tonight) & some math homework to review concepts worked on in class.In math class we have been, and continue to work on: patterns that increase, representing numbers different ways and naming numbers to 100 in French.In French class this week we will be writing short autobiographies, reviewing phrases learnt to date, adding new action words to our repertoire & discussing our preferences at school (favorite subjects, activities, etc.)

I'm sure your kids have mentionned that we have been filming videos of our progress but I (Mme Comeau) am not as technologically advanced as I thought I was.  Figuring out the equipment and program took me a bit longer than I had hoped.  I have it all figured out and almost ready to go, but I am missing one completed video before I can post it.  Keep an eye out on Monday evening for some great little French speakers; after their first month at school. Have a great weekend!                                                Bonne fin de semaine!

I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weekend we just had!  Tomorrow we start October, which means my favorite time of year is soon approaching! (I love halloween!) This week in French/Math- Due to some technical diffiulties, no new homework sheets went home today, but we are continuing with our letter/sounds each day in class!  So far, we have covered a, e, i , o & u, next are Ss Jj, ch & Ff.  - Tomorrow there will be a new math sheet as well as the one from last week, which needs to be signed and returned after the students practice the highlighted numbers/words.  - Student will, again, have a new book to read each night  - and a new set of "mots courants" on the bottom of their sound/letter sheets. (we had a quiz today on the first set and they did very well!)In class we are always reviewing what we have done so far & this week we are continuing to learn new oral structures about the things that make us unique; hair colour, eye colour, height, favorites ect. (Mes cheveux sont..., mes yeux sont..., je suis grand(e)/court(e),...)Picture orders can be returned anytime.* Students were assigned a math text book for the year.  We are currently learning how to use it, how the pages are laid out and so on.  The students seem pretty excited, we are learning about patterns while still continuing our numbers to 100.  We are mastering up to 70 at the moment, maybe 80 by weeks' end!Have a great week, and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns!