Thursday

Happy Thursday, learning friends!

Today in Français we added one new rotation to our LaLaLa time: "Lecture Avec Enseignante" (reading with a teacher). We will work with Mme Careen either in small groups or one-on-one to accomplish different reading goals, whether it be word pronunciation, text comprehension, or much more! We will now rotate through the three different "La"s during our daily reading time, having the chance to read independently, with a partner and with Mme at least once each week.

Also in Français, we have started using a graphic organizer to plan our "la paix" poems. After listening to three mentor texts about peace, we have had a chance to reflect on what peace means to us.

We are connecting our five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, sound) to different memories that bring us peace. Our first drafts will be due at the end of class tomorrow. Mme Careen will be reading over our texts and beginning to make our "la paix" anchor charts to support us through our writing and editing process. We'll keep updating you on our next writing task as we go. Stay tuned!

In Math, we learned a new mental math strategy today: "Divise et Double." When solving a multiplication equation, we can re-balance the equation to create an equation that is easier for our brains to solve!

Ex: 4 x 45
Divide the factor 4 by 2 to get 2. Balance the other factor (45) by multiplying it by 2 to get 90.
The new equation is now 2 x 90.
We can easily double 90 to get 180.
And voilà! 4 x 45 = 180!

Try this same strategy with the following equations:  25 x 6     8 x 35      4 x 65
Happy calculating!

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1. Read!
2. Calcul Mental - Section A "Divise et Double" - Monday
3. 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.)

Wednesday Agenda Items

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1. Read!
2. Pizza lunch - tomorrow (Thursday).
Interested students may order and pay for their pizza until Thursday morning. $2.00 a slice, with the choice of either cheese or pepperoni and cheese. The canteen will be closed on Thursday.

Tuesday Agenda Items

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1. Read!
2. Pizza lunch - Thursday.
Interested students may order and pay for their pizza until Thursday morning. $2.00 a slice, with the choice of either cheese or pepperoni and cheese. The canteen will be closed on Thursday.

First Day of Term 2!

Happy Monday, friends of learning!
We had a busy morning of learning together as we welcomed Term 2!

In Math, we learned how to break down numbers into a product of their prime factors using factor trees. You can do this with any non-prime number. 42? Sure! 100? You bet!
Please ask me to show you how it's done!

In Français, we worked in small groups to summarize the article, "Dia de los muertos," an article that we had originally read around Halloween. After reviewing some of the tougher vocabulary as a class, we reread the article before getting started with our writing. We used the "Je résume" graphic organizer to help us plan out our writing and choose appropriate transition words. All groups collaborated well together to accomplish the task. Bravo!

Finally, in Science, we learned the true identity of our Tomato groups! Dah dah-dah daahhhh....
Group J was the control group and Group K was the group of seeds that spent 6 weeks on the I.S.S. last summer! The majority of the class had identified the groups as such, proving that we have some super scientists amongst us!

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Agenda items:
1. Read!
2. Pizza lunch - Thursday.
Interested students may order and pay for their pizza until Thursday morning. $2.00 a slice, with the choice of either cheese or pepperoni and cheese. The canteen will be closed on Thursday.

Last Day of Term One!

We made it, learning friends!
Term One, Done!

We worked VERY hard this morning finishing up a long list of items in all three subjects.
Bravo to everyone for giving it their all!

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Agenda items:
1. Take some time to read in both French and English this three-day weekend!
2. Rest up and get ready for Term 2! :)

A busy Wednesday morning!

We had a morning full of assessments, presentations and data analysis!
We are slowly crossing off all the remaining Term 1 items on our to-do lists in preparation for report card writing this Friday. We are working hard and are almost there!
Keep up the great work, everyone! :)

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Agenda items:
1. We will be finishing our Math "Facteurs et Multiples" assessment tomorrow in class.

2. Science Design Process: rubrics were handed back yesterday. Any students wishing to improve their marks have until Thursday to review and resubmit their projects in order to have their revisions reflected on their upcoming Term 1 reports.
3. Last call for all incomplete Term 1 assignments - tomorrow (Thursday) by 12:45.
This includes: Les buts, les tableaux d'inspiration, design process projects and Suresh questions.

A great evening of learning!

It was so great to see so many families at our Celebration of Learning evening!

Thank you all for coming and sharing in your child's learning! :)