We made it! The last Friday of 2018!

Greetings, learning friends!

What a wonderfully cozy day we had today!

Our Grinch-tastic Math art!

We started our morning with a special treat in math - we got to do a special 12 Days of Christmas question... in English! 😄 Working in randomized groups at the white board, we first figured out how many items we would receive throughout the 12 days of Christmas, and then, using a special price list, we had to calculate the total cost for the 12 days of gifts.
5 golden rings and 12 drummers drumming are NOT cheap! :)

Next up: our "Le Grinch" reader's theatre.

We all read so well, with such grinch-tastic expression! Bravo!

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

We finished up our morning with a team word-scramble challenge and a Grinchématiques Math challenge, and there was a yummy prize waiting for us at the end!

Bravo à tous! :) 

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Wishing you all a very wonderful and restful winter break.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!

Joyeux Noël! Meilleurs voeux!

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Thursday!

Happy Thursday learning friends!

We had a busy morning today!

In Math, we worked in randomized groups of 3 to solve a series of "gratte-ciel" puzzles.

A few groups flew through the puzzles so quickly, Mme could hardly keep up! Whoa!

For the remainder of the morning we: worked through a lesson on the brain, learning a few of the 'inside parts' of the brain and their functions; had one final reader's theatre practice before we present our Grinch play tomorrow; worked on our Grinch coordinate picture and completed a word search of french winter vocabulary words. We also enjoyed a sweet treat while we worked, compliments of Aidan R. Merci, Aidan! :)

Have a great evening! 1 more day! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Spirit Week is THIS week! See this post for details!  

2. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

Three days and counting...

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Today is SDRAWKCAB Day!

This morning in Math we tackled the GRRRRR-ultimate Math coordinate picture!

We didn't know what the picture was of at first, but as we began plotting the points, the grinch-sterious character appeared! We'll finish our coordinate pictures in class tomorrow and post them just in time for our last day of classes.

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This week, instead of our usual "LaLaLa" reading, we are working in groups to practice a special "Le Grinch" Reader's Theatre. 

The story is divided into 4 parts, with each group responsible for presenting one scene.

In each group there is one Grinch and a series of narrators who will tell the story.

We will present our Grinch Reader's Theatre Friday morning!

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Agenda items:

1. Pizza lunch is tomorrow (Thursday). Please note the canteen will be closed.
2. Spirit Week is THIS week! See this post for details!  

3. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

A writing celebration!

Happy Tuesday!

Today in Français, we were very happy to welcome Mme Buckwold and Mme Banks to our classroom.

We introduced the writing process of our "La paix" poems and then started the celebration of our writing. We were divided into two groups, one staying in Room 208 to read to Mme Buckwold, with the other group reading to Mme Banks in Room 205 (Thanks, Mme Champagne!).

Our poems were very personal to us and both Mmes learned a lot about us from listening to us read our writing. We all presented very well, reading confidently with expression. Bravo à tous!

We are practicing reading our "La paix" poems before reading them to Mme Banks and Mme Buckwold.

We all did such a great job sharing our writing with our classmates and Mme and Mme!

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Agenda items:

1. Pizza lunch this coming Thursday! Students may preorder their pizza slices by tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. Cheese and pepperoni & cheese are available for $2.00 a slice.
Please note the canteen will be closed on Thursday.
2. Spirit Week is THIS week! See this post for details!  

3. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

The countdown in on!

Happy Monday!
We're looking forward to a great week of spirited holiday learning fun!
4 more days! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Writing celebration! We look forward to welcoming Mme Banks and Mme Buckwold to our room tomorrow (Tuesday) to read our most recent writing pieces, "La paix."
2.Pizza lunch this coming Thursday! Students may preorder their pizza slices by Wednesday morning. Cheese and pepperoni & cheese are available for $2.00 a slice.
Please note the canteen will be closed on Thursday.
3. Spirit Week is THIS week! See this post for details!  

4. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

It's Friday!

Friday is here!

In Math this morning we challenged a classmate to a game of coordinate battleship!

After placing our 4 ships on our coordinate plane, we took turns asking for specific coordinates to find and eventually sink our partner's fleet. Math is SO much fun! :)

In Francais, we worked hard on our first school-wide writing assessment of the year. Our topic, "Explique comment passer de bonnes vacances d'hiver." (Explain how to pass a good winter break).
We started our writing assessment in class yesterday by doing a "turn and talk" with our peers.
We then had time to start planning and writing our response.
Today in class we continued writing and revising our work.
Mme Careen will now read over all of our texts and make a list of things we do already well as well as a list of our next steps so that we can all continue to grow as writers in the new year.

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Agenda items:

1. Spirit Week is next week! See this post for details!

2. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

Thursday

Happy Thursday, learning friends!

Here's today's "Thinking Classroom" problem for you to ponder...

Paint all the sides of a 3 x 3 x 3 cube. Once it is dry take it apart into its 1 x 1 x 1 unit cubes. 
How many of these unit cubes have paint on three faces? Two faces? One face? No faces? 
Explore for 4 x 4 x 4, etc.

Happy thinking!

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Agenda items:

1. Good copies of "La paix" - due Friday*.

*Due date was changed from today to tomorrow because Mme Careen was not available for text revisions today at lunch.

2. Cannes pour une cause - Send a special note and a candy cane treat to all of your friends!

Candy grams will be on sale ($1 each) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, with proceeds going to Chrstimas Cheerboard.

3. Spirit Week is next week! See this post for details!
4. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!
We had another great morning of learning together today!

In Math, we continue to work on our Coordinates unit by plotting coordinates, identifying coordinates and describing the path taken when moving from one coordinate to another. We will be using our coordinate knowledge for a few fun activities coming up next week, and, we will also be applying our new skills in Science as we continue to learn how to plot data points on a graph.

In Science, as just mentioned, we have started learning the parts of a graph, with an emphasis on the independent and dependent variables. We will be practicing how to properly set up a graph with a variety of examples before using our skills to represent our Tomtosphere data.

Finally, in Francais, we continue to read daily and are preparing to present our most recent writing piece - "La paix" to Mme Banks and Mme Buckwold when they visit our classroom early next week. Stay tuned here for more details and pictures of our writing celebration coming soon!

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Agenda items:

1. Good copies of "La paix" - due Thursday.

(No more class time will be given. Students who still need to review their texts are invited to work on their texts at home or over the noon hour.)

2. Cannes pour une cause - Send a special note and a candy cane treat to all of your friends!

Candy grams will be on sale ($1 each) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, with proceeds going to Chrstimas Cheerboard.

3. Spirit Week is next week! See this post for details!
4. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

♬♪ And a very special "Bonne chance" to all of our band students who will be performing in their very first concert tonight! What an exciting time for all of our budding musicians! ♪♬

Agenda items

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Agenda items:

1. Good copies of "La paix" - due Thursday.

(No more class time will be given. Students who still need to review their texts are invited to work on their texts at home or over the noon hour.)

2. Cannes pour une cause - Send a special note and a candy cane treat to all of your friends!

Candy grams will be on sale ($1 each) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, with proceeds going to Chrstimas Cheerboard.

3. Spirit Week is next week! See this post for details!
4. We are accepting donations of new and gently used warm winter clothing in support of the Spence Neighbourhood Association's 24/7 safe space for youth 13-26. Donations may be brought to the donation bins in front of the school office from now until Friday, December 21.

SPIRIT WEEK!

Winter break is coming and we are going to send off 2018 in super-spirit style!

Here are the dress-up days for next week's spirit week!

Monday - Cele-fêtes!

Holi-day! Dress up for your favourite holiday or like you are going on a holiday!

Tuesday - Vas-y Jets!

Wear your Jets gear and/or Jets colour to cheer on our home team!

Wednesday - idercrem

Backwards Day!

Thursday - jeudi jumeaux/jumelles

Grab a friend or two and plan your matching outfits!

Friday -  Les pyjamas parfaits!

Pyjama Day!

Monday!

Happy Monday!

We had a great morning of learning together, highlighted by many great CFOO presentations!

This round's theme was "Recherche" and we learned about many different animals and countries and even had a few rounds of "Who am I?" to guess a famous celebrity. We also had one "technicien" and one "reporteur du sport." Bravo to everyone for getting our Term 2 oral presentations off to such an informative start!

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Agenda items:

1. Calcul mental assessment - Divise et double - tomorrow (Tuesday)

2. Good copies of "La paix" - due Thursday.

(No more class time will be given. Students who still need to review their texts are invited to work on their texts at home or over the noon hour.)

3. Cannes pour une cause - Send a special note and a candy cane treat to all of your friends!

Candy grams will be on sale ($1 each) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, with proceeds going to Chrstimas Cheerboard.

4. Spirit Week is next week! Dress-up days coming soon! :)

Have a nice evening!

Friday Agenda Items

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1. CFOO #3 - La recherche - Monday, December 10th.
2. Final edited draft of "La paix" poems - Tuesday*
(*Original due date was tomorrow (Friday) - Date has been pushed back to allow for one more in-class conferencing period before final copies are due).
3. Calcul Mental Assessment: "Divise et Double" - Tuesday
4. December Scholastic Orders - due Monday, December 10 to ensure arrival before winter break
(Ordering online allows you to access not only the December flyer but previous flyers as well.)
Books make GREAT gifts!
5. Read!

Have a great weekend! :)

Thursday Agenda Items

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1. CFOO #3 - La recherche - Monday, December 10th.
2. Final edited draft of "La paix" poems - Tuesday*
(*Original due date was tomorrow (Friday) - Date has been pushed back to allow for one more in-class conferencing period before final copies are due).
3. Calcul Mental Assessment: "Divise et Double" - Tuesday
4. December Scholastic Orders - due Monday, December 10 to ensure arrival before winter break
(Ordering online allows you to access not only the December flyer but previous flyers as well.)
Books make GREAT gifts!
5. Read!

Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday, Room 208 friends!
We had a busy morning of learning together!

Today marked our first "Les chevaliers de la table ronde" session as a school. Twice a month we extend our homeroom time to: 1) spend time together as a homeroom, 2) come together as a whole school in the gym for a monthly assembly to celebrate our learning.

Today during "La table ronde" we started learning all about the brain.
We started by reading our Essential Understandings as a class and then watched this video to start of our lesson : Neuro Transmissions.

From there, referring to an online 3D Brain Model, we coloured and filled in our own brain diagrams, taking time to write down the different functions that are associated with each part. THIS website is a great place to explore!

In Math, we worked together in our randomized groups at the whiteboards to do a "Qui est l'intrus" activity. We originally saw this activity back in September, but revisited it with new pictures and 3 months of new Math knowledge in our brains! Many of us made great connections with the concepts and vocabulary we have been studying. Bravo à tous!

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* Report Cards Sent Home Today!*
1. Calcul Mental - Section B "Divise et Double" - tomorrow (Thursday)
2. Final edited draft of "La paix" poems - Friday
3. CFOO #3 - La recherche - Monday, December 10th.
4. December Scholastic Orders - due December 10 to ensure arrival before winter break
(Ordering online allows you to access not only the December flyer but previous flyers as well.)
Books make GREAT gifts!
5. Read!

Tuesday Agenda Items

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1. Calcul Mental - Section B "Divise et Double" - Thursday
2. Final edited draft of "La paix" poems - Friday
3. CFOO #3 - La recherche - Monday, December 10th.
4. December Scholastic Orders - due December 10 to ensure arrival before winter break
(Ordering online allows you to access not only the December flyer but previous flyers as well.)
Books make GREAT gifts!
5. Read!

Happy Monday!

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1. Calcul Mental - Section B "Divise et Double" - Thursday
2. CFOO #3 - La recherche - Monday, December 10th.
(This will be a Day 3 instead of our regular Day 2 presentations.
This is a one-time switch for this round of presentations only.)
3. December Scholastic Orders - due December 10 to ensure arrival before winter break
(Ordering online allows you to access not only the December flyer but previous flyers as well.)
Books make GREAT gifts!
4. Read!

Have a great week! :)