Agendas:
-Library book exchange on Monday
-Candy-Grams on sale Monday and Tuesday for 50 cents!

Hello parents!

You can find your copy of our Friday newsletter {HERE}! Have a great weekend, and see you in February!

Agendas:
-Pizza orders are due tomorrow, Friday, January 29th. ($8.00 for one slice throughout the month of February, $16.00 for two)
-Candy Grams will be on sale for 50 cents each on Friday, as well as next Monday and Tuesday.

Agendas:
-Candy-grams will be on sale tomorrow for 50 cents each.
-Author's Tea (for winners AB, DH & EG) tomorrow at 1:00 *Siblings are invited to watch only if an adult is not able to come

We had a fabulous day today for our Carnaval de Saint Patrick! We enjoyed the perfect weather and we were all tired out by the end of the day! We will be using our experiences tomorrow in our recount writing!

Agendas:
-Pizza orders due Friday, January 29th
-Parent note: New PA day added for Monday, February 29th
-Parent note: Candy-gram orders
-Any students who wish to enter into the Author's Tea contest can submit stories/poems/songs/essays in English or in French tomorrow. The Author's Tea celebration will be on Thursday, January 28th at 1:00. We will let you know our winners tomorrow!

Yesterday, we were so excited to receive a package in the mail from Miami... from our pen pals! Today, we opened our letters and we loved all the care and effort that they put into writing very thoughtful letters to us. Today, we began our rough drafts that we will edit and mail off by Friday! We are teaching our pen pals how to speak French and all about our French-Canadian culture. We were very excited to write to them about our Carnaval day tomorrow!


Speaking of Carnaval...tomorrow we will be spending most of the day outside, so please refer to the blue page in our agendas to make sure that you are ready! Please bring extra mittens, socks, hats. Dress in your full snow suit, and dress in layers so that you can adjust as you need throughout the day. Please also pack some extra snacks (especially items that can be eaten on the go, such as fruit, granola bars, etc.). Your blue page also specifies your child's team, so you may want to be prepared with his/her team name (letter from A-X) written on a hand, so that he/she is prepared for tomorrow.

Happy Thursday! Don't forget that there is no school tomorrow! :)

You can find a copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}

Just a friendly reminder as well that we want to keep our school as safe and healthy for all students as possible. It is cold and flu season now, and several students have been absent in the past few weeks. We make sure that we are properly dressed for outdoor recess and gym in the winter, and students who are not well enough for outdoor time because of cold/flu symptoms are safer to be at home to recover.

Have a great long weekend!

Agendas:
-Pink T-shirt orders are due tomorrow (Tuesday, January 19). They are $10.00 each. Please make cheques payable to "Phoenix Enterprises" (not St. Patrick!)

Today we had our first of many visits from Mrs. Selda, our liaison from St. Francis de Sales Parish. She came to talk to us about our upcoming First Reconciliation, and she will come every week to help us to prepare! We talked about all of the blessings in our lives, and how we can use those blessings (talents, personality traits) in service to others. We then drew a picture of the "Best Version" of ourselves, putting God's blessings to work in our lives. We ended our afternoon with the Act of Contrition prayer. Thank you to all who have been rehearsing the prayer at home!

Today we also had a very brief introduction to our new Social Studies unit about Global Communities. We will be learning about cities, provinces/states, countries and continents using mapping skills. We will also be learning about how physical features (water, elevation, vegetation, latitude, etc.) affect the culture and daily life of a region's inhabitants, and how they adapt to their environments. Our upcoming Report Card will touch on what we will have completed to that point, but we will continue this unit into February. We look forward to some very fun and interesting learning coming up!

Agendas:
-T-shirt order forms due January 27th (orders went home to youngest/only students)

*Be sure to look at our school's Facebook page to see our photos that Mme True took from our Science day on Monday! Search: "St. Patrick Catholic School, Ajax"

You can find your copy of our Friday newsletter {HERE}.

Agendas:

Hi parents!

Today we worked on Prayer Books, that we will use as a reference for tracking our familiarity with (and ultimately, memorization of) common Mass ritual prayers. We are using a self-evaluation system to hold ourselves accountable for our practice and learning. 

We will send these home on Friday to continue to practise (and teach others!) at home!

Hello parents!

Today our bright scientific minds were hard at work! We spent a day of scientific exploration that used our skills in Science (liquids/solids, changes in matter), Math (mass and capacity of containers) and French reading, writing and oral communication.

We began our day with a mystery recipe! We discussed the importance of following a recipe in order, and preparing all materials ahead of time. We read this recipe below in French, and tried to make a hypothesis (a scientist's educated guess) about what our final product might look like, feel like, taste like, etc. We used this recipe that you can recreate at home (we doubled the original recipe as part of our math work):

Materials:
-two bowls
-3/4 cup of cold water
-1/2 cup hot water
-1 cup white liquid glue
-1 tsp Borax (*Let me know if you would like some Borax to make this at home...We have A LOT left over! :) )
-5-10 drops of food colouring

Instructions:
-Absorb the Borax and hot water in one bowl
-Stir the cold water, glue and food colouring in a separate bowl to desired colour
-Stir together the contents of both bowls *and enjoy the magic happening!
-Drain off the excess water
-Store slime in a plastic bag, and it will last up to a week.

Later on in our Learning Centres, we dressed up in our hazmat safety gear and got to work! We wrote about liquids and solids in our Scribble Stories...

...We examined household product bottles for safety warnings...

We mixed oil, water, food colouring (and of course, lots of sparkles!) to make lava lamps! We examined how two liquids can have different masses and separate. Of course, we added our own warning labels to warn others of our biohazard creations!

Agendas:
-Please bring in any empty clear bottles with lids for Mondays' Science experiment!
-Please return the white Hearing Test form (plus $15.00) by January 27th!
-You can find your copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}!

Today we completed our Learning Centres, and even made videos of our awesome reading to show to the whole class! We also created pictures of animals from our Animaux, Animaux book (that went home today) to scale, using (many) sheets of chart paper and measuring with rulers. Here is a fantastic example of our great artistry and math skills!

Hi parents!

Today we had a great time learning about John The Baptist and his mission to spread the Word of God. This is perfect timing, as we start Ordinary Time tomorrow, and will have a short time to put into practice all that we have learned throughout the Advent and Christmas seasons! We used our fabulous art skills to show the story of John The Baptist!

 We finally discussed how we can "spread the Word of God" with our kind actions, and we read the story: Enemy Pie. We are learning how to be "bad at being an enemy"! 

Don't forget that tomorrow is our first pizza day if 2016, so please be reminded to pack extra snacks and drinks! 

We Hello parents!

Today we dive right into our measurement unit in math with our skills of comparison! We went on a hunt around the room for objects that matched the size of a chosen object. We found some very creative comparisons! 

We also had our first science experiment! We used our math comparisons skills again to compare and contrast balloons filled with air, water and ice. As good scientists, we described what we saw, felt, smelled, weighed, and even tasted, unfortunately, with the different states of matter (solid, liquid and gas). We made hypotheses about what we expect to happen to our balloons by Friday, so we'll be excited to see what happens! 

We are gearing up for our next science experiment next Monday! 

Bonne année!

We wasted no time getting right back into our learning and we began by creating a class pledge. We have now spent a semester together, and we are ready to take ownership of our learning environment. We discussed the goals that we want to achieve in our class in 2016, and we all agreed on some key steps to help us build on our fun, happy and safe classroom. Tomorrow we will sign our pledge and recite it daily to keep our New Year's resolution in mind!

We also read the book, L'eau de la terre {Download HERE!}, which we will take home tomorrow. This introduced us to our new science unit: Properties of Solids and Liquids. We examined how solid objects have a shape, but that water (and other liquids) do not have a 'shape'. We showed off our knowledge of solid and liquid properties with some interesting examples! :)