Happy Monday!

Hello, everyone!

We had a great morning of learning this morning!

We started our day in Français with LaLaLa 2.0 and then had some time to work on our 

Le Chadail de hockey inspired "Qui suis-je?" Haiku poems. Our goal with these poems is to use descriptive language to describe and "show" a person/object/place from the story. This is a departure from our normal writing goal in Français which is to write complete sentences.

We will have time in class tomorrow in class to continue working on our drafts before editing and publishing our work later this week.

In Math, we began by adding yet another new mental math strategy to our Math tool box. 

This week's addition strategy is "Arrondis et ajuste" - Round and adjust.

We then started a new Math art project which incorporates our knowledge of positive and negative integers. Following a specific set of instructions, we will represent a variety of objects at specific altitudes. We will then use this drawing to answer a series of questions which will call upon our knowledge of a number line. Stay tuned to see what amazing math masterpieces we will create!

We finished our morning with the continuation of our mental health / well-being lessons we began last week. Our focus this morning was the ERA Cycle and the Self-Regulated ERA cycle.

We began our lesson reading the book, The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers together as a class.

At the conclusion of the story, we discussed: the events of the story, what 'conflict' the main character experienced, and her action based on her emotions (the ERA Cycle). We then reflected on how the main character could have changed the outcome had she perhaps been able to change her thoughts BEFORE making a decision of what to do next (the Self-Regulated ERA Cycle). Working as a large group, we came up with a few great suggestions!

We then moved on with our next task. Working in small groups, we selected our own picture book from the selection Mme Careen brought in for us.

Our first task was to read our story together as a group.

Next, we identified the ERA Cycle represented in the book and then discussed what the main character in our book could do to change the outcome of the 'conflict' they found themselves in.

The last step of this activity will be to share our findings with the whole class. We were fortunate to have enough time to listen to one group today, and will make time to have the remaining groups present later this week.

Please ask me about the book I read and how my group and I think our main character might handle his/her/their unique situation.

P.S. Any of the above-pictured books are great reads! 

Definitely worth checking-out the next time you visit your local library!

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Agenda items:
**Please return registration forms as soon as possible! **

1. "Lire ma chemise" dress-up day - tomorrow (Tuesday)
2. Candy grams on sale ($1 each) tomorrow and Wednesday at lunch.
3. Calcul mental "Arrondis et ajuste" Section A - Wednesday 
4. Questions Chandail du hockey - students no longer have class time to work on their questions. 
All questions due - Wednesday
5. Science Design Process Experiments - students will no longer have class time to complete their project plans. All project plans are due Thursday.
6. Festival du Voyageur forms - due Thursday
7. February Scholastic Orders - due Friday, February 22.
8. It's I 💚 to Read month! Please take time to read (in both French and English) every day!

Don't forget to fill out your reading log!
(Please see THIS POST for all upcoming J'aime Lire events)

It's Friday!

Happy Friday!

Today in Math we played a card game to help us compare positive and negative integers: 
la guerre des nombres entiers!
This is much like the classic card game "War" but with a small math twist.
The red cards in the deck represented the negative integers and the black cards represented the positive ones. When flipping and comparing the cards to see who 'won,' we first had to determine if our card had a positive or negative value, and then decide if our value was greater.
What a great way to have fun AND practice number sense all at once! :)

Have a great weekend!

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Agenda items:
**Please return registration forms as soon as possible! **
1. Questions Chandail du hockey - any students who were not able to finish their questions in class today are asked to complete them over the weekend to hand in on Monday.
2. Science Design Process Experiments - students will no longer have class time to complete their project plans. All project plans are due Thursday, February 14.
3. Festival du Voyageur forms - due Thursday, February 14.
4. February Scholastic Orders - due Friday, February 22.
5. It's I 💚 to Read month! Please take time to read (in both French and English) every day!

Don't forget to fill out your reading log!
(Please see THIS POST for all upcoming J'aime Lire events)

Hé Ho! We're Going on a Field Trip!

Happy Thursday!

Mark your calendars! We're heading to Festival du Voyageur on Wednesday, February 20.
Permission forms were sent home today.
Please sign and return the form to school along with the $12 payment (paid via SchoolCash Online) by Thursday, February 14. Questions? Please contact me via email!

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Agenda items:
**Please return registration forms as soon as possible! **
1. Science Design Process Experiments - students will no longer have class time to complete their project plans. All project plans are due Thursday, February 14.
2. Festival du Voyageur forms - due Thursday, February 14.
3. February Scholastic Orders - due Friday, February 22.
4. It's I 💚 to Read month! Please take time to read (in both French and English) every day!

Don't forget to fill out your reading log!
(Please see THIS POST for all upcoming J'aime Lire events)

Wednesday!

Hello, friends of learning!
We are already half way through this chilly week. Brrrr!
Let's hope the weather warms up soon!

We started our day with our monthly "La table ronde" time, and continued with our brain/mental health/well-being lessons.
Today's Essential Question was, "Why do we have feelings?"

After reviewing the main ideas from our last few lessons, we began talking about the ERA cycle.

To introduce this idea, we watched THIS short video clip from the movie, Inside Out.

After watching the clip, we discussed the ERA Cycle that each family member went through at the dinner table. We also took the time to think about some different situations where we have gone through the same type of cycle.

Our next step was then to look at the Self-Regulated ERA Cycle. We spoke a lot about how we can train our brain to think new thoughts when we are in a state of stress in order to change how we react in a certain situation. We talked about the Inside Out clip and made suggestions as to how each family member could have changed their thinking in order to change the outset of the dinner-time conversation. Mme Careen challenged us to think about a time when we perhaps acted out of stress/anger instead of taking the time to breathe/reflect on the situation. She also asked us to be more aware of when we do end up falling into an ERA cycle; instead of reacting right away, we can choose to change our thoughts so that we can possibly change the outcome.

We will be exploring the Self-Regulated ERA Cycle more over the coming days, as well as learning more about the "fight and flight" response so that we can better understand how to be in control when we are faced with a stressful situation.

After out "La table ronde" session, we jumped right into Science and used the period to continue working on our Tomatosphere Extension Projects. Our goal is to design an experiment using plants, where the Dependant Variable is either the height or the general well-being of the plants.

We will have one more period to work tomorrow before a final due date is assigned.

We ended our morning in Français, with the introduction of LALALA 2.0.

In addition to our three original stations of: independent, partner and group reading with Mme, we now have a game station, a listening station, and, when we have an additional adult working with us, an extra "reading with Mme" station. Each day we will work at a new station so that, each cycle, we will have completed each of the 6 stations. Being exposed to french texts in a variety of ways on a daily basis will help us grow our french vocabulary and increase our comprehension of french texts. Magnifique! :)

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Agenda items:
**Please return registration forms as soon as possible! **
1. It's I 💚 to Read month! Please take time to read (in both French and English) every day!

Don't forget to fill out your reading log!
(Please see THIS POST for all upcoming J'aime Lire events)

Tuesday Agenda Items

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Agenda items:
**Please return registration forms as soon as possible! **

1. It's I 💚 to Read month! Please take time to read (in both French and English) every day!
Don't forget to fill out your reading log!
(Please see THIS POST for all upcoming J'aime Lire events)

Monday Agenda Items

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Agenda items:
**Please return registration forms as soon as possible! **

1. Mathé - graphing booklet and transformations art project - now OVERDUE

2. It's I 💚 to Read month! Please take time to read (in both French and English) every day!
Don't forget to fill out your reading log!
3. Tomorrow is our first J'aime Lire spirit day: Les chevaliers chapeautés !
Please wear a hat tomorrow to show your school spirit and your LOVE of reading!
(Please see THIS POST for all upcoming J'aime Lire events)

Have a great week! Stay warm!

J'aime Lire!

I Love to Read month is here!

Please check out the calendar below to be 'in the know' about all of the fun coming up this month! Happy reading! :)