Nous sommes le vendredi 25 Septembre
Hello parents!
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| Zoologists and animals working together :) |
Thank you so much to all who attended last night's Building Community night! We had so much fun joining together as a St. Patrick community to celebrate all of the awesome things that your children are doing! We hope you enjoyed seeing our little class! We have finished a busy week going on safari as zoologists studying animals and as mathematicians counting big numbers! Next week we will be moving on with learning about conserving animal habitats, counting money and fractions, as well as starting our Reading Centres (Les Ateliers).
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| A good zoologist needs a safari Jeep! |
Today, we played a math game called 1-200 (Un à deux-cent), and it got quite competitive! To play, you need one piece of paper per person, as well as one die and pencil for the group. Going around the circle clockwise, the player that rolls a "1" (or any other chosen number) first grabs the pencil and starts writing every number from one to two hundred. Meanwhile, everyone else is going around clockwise to roll as quickly as possible, and if another player rolls a "1", he/she grabs the pencil away and starts writing their own list. When your turn to write comes around again (which it does not always, by chance, as we learned today), you continue your list up to two hundred from where you left off. The first player to have completed their list to two hundred is the winner! We will continue this game throughout the year as practice with larger numbers, counting up/down, counting by multiples of 2/5, etc.
Today, we also celebrated 400 years of French presence in Ontario with our Fête franco-ontarien! We all wore green and white (the colours of the flag) and made a big "400" on the school field with every St. Patrick student! Finally, we raised the Franco-ontarien flag at our school and celebrated with face painting and a traditional franco-ontarien sweet treat!
Agendas:
-Some students have homework for Madame Holmes, where they are to discuss your home's emergency exits, in case of fire, if they do not already know.
-Our weekly newsletter is coming home today and you can also download a copy
{HERE}. Thank you to those who return the Learning Reflection page on Monday!
-Everyone who came last night started their Sac de Lecture/ Book Bags with French books to read at home. It is important for students to read for 20 minutes per day. You can return the book when completed (at whatever pace is comfortable for your child), and choose a new one. We will use these books frequently for our Small Group reading sessions, so your child may wish to keep their book in their agenda bags. You can find a copy of our Book Bag tracking page {
HERE}!
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
We were working away at counting money amounts today, in the most delicious way possible. We visited our Room 128 ice cream parlour, and chose a selection of ice cream flavours; each with their own math challenge. We chose some simple ice cream scoops, such as vanilla and strawberry (white and pink :) ) and we pushed ourselves to try some more exquisite flavours that asked us to add and subtract numbers under 99¢, and even more decadent math challenges with chocolate amounts up to $9.99. It was a frenzy of choosing our ice cream scoops and counting up the total! We even had a contest to see who could make the most expensive ice cream cone with five scoops! We used our money manipulative to represent the money amounts, as well. We will continue to look at money coins for the rest of the week in terms of fractions (parts of a dollar).
We also continued on with our Literacy Centres today, and we are doing a great job learning about teamwork and leadership!
