Agendas:
-Wear blue on Monday for Light It Up Blue day (Autism Awareness)

You can find your copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}!

Agendas:
-Wear blue and/or white tomorrow, Tuesday March 22nd to celebrate World Water Day
-Please bring a reusable water bottle tomorrow for World Water Day

Welcome back, everyone! We enjoyed a wonderful March break, and now we are ready to hit the ground running with our final quarter of the year!

Our main literacy focus in French will be writing, and we will even use this skill with our new Religion journals, to use our writing response and journaling skills in English. In French, we are working this week on writing "un récit"; a recount of our spring break activities. Our writing pieces will include:
-a creative title
-introduction sentence(s) that can express the positive or negative tone of our writing
-three events using beginning, middle and end structure (with the vocabulary transition words "d'abord", "ensuite" and "puis")
-conclusion sentence(s) that can summarize our overall spring break experience, and offer any further opinions.

Today, we began by planning our writing in drawings, to ensure that we are including all details. Next, we explained our drawings to a friend or Mme Wilson, and from there made a list ("key word dictionary") of any new or difficult words that we would need before writing in full sentences. Tomorrow, we will write our first drafts and go through the editing process, and will conclude with publishing and sharing our work on Wednesday and Thursday! Look out for your child's completed work, along with a marking rubric, on Thursday!

Agendas:

Agendas:
-First Reconciliation celebration tonight at Saint Francis de Sales Parish at 7:00!
-Pizza Day tomorrow: Don't forget to bring extra snacks!

Today was our Reading Across America [Canada] day here in Room 128! We well all-out in eccentric Seuss style to celebrate the contributions of Dr. Seuss to the children's literature world! We began our day with a new-word creation and rhyming challenge! We also each had Thing 1 - 19 name tags, and we had a fun challenge of calling each other "Chose numéro____" instead of our first names. Those that slipped had to write three French rhyming words!

We also used our celebration of Dr. Seuss to introduce our non-fiction reading unit of biographies and autobiographies. We read the very interesting of Dr. Seuss (Ted Soice, actually!), and looked for key fats about his life. We also completed a Book Report about one of our favourite works of Dr. Seuss! We scoured our books for facts about the main character, and interesting facts/action throughout the story. This will help us to prepare for our work later this week with our Mr. Zinger stories!

'Will you succeed? Yes, indeed. 98 3/4% guaranteed!" - Dr. Seuss

Sam from The Cat in The Hat is watching over our class!

Reading the biography of Dr. Seuss

Book Reports about Dr. Seuss stories

Of course, our writing needed Truffula Tree pencils (from the story, The Lorax!)

Agendas:
-Please see yellow note attached to Friday newsletter about our Reading Across Canada day coming up on Wednesday, March 2nd. This is the birthdate of Dr. Seuss; someone who is synonymous with children's literature. Schools celebrate this day with all-day reading marathons and literacy activities You are welcome to bring books from home as well as pyjamas, sleeping bags, pillows, stuffed animal toys, etc. Contact me if you have any questions!

You can find a copy of our Friday newsletter {HERE}
You can find a copy of our Reading Across Canada day letter {HERE}

Monday, February 29th is a PA Day! See you in March!

Agendas:
-Pizza tomorrow; bring extra snacks!
-Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day at St. Patrick! Wear your "Kindness Is My Superpower" shirt, or anything pink!
-We are leading our February assembly tomorrow to celebrate the Catholic virtue of Love. We will meet at 12:45 in the gym. Our whole class will be up singing, leading prayers, and some of us will even be acting up on stage! Come join us for an afternoon of LOVE!