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29 March 2016



Agendas:
-On Thursday, March 31st, students will have the opportunity to purchase a bracelet for $2.00 that will commemorate a former student of Saint Patrick who passed away earlier this month. The proceeds will go toward Andrew's family during their difficult time.
-Pizza orders are due Friday, April 1st ($8 for one slice each day, or $16 for two slices)



We had a great first day back after our long weekend and Easter celebrations! Today we began the voting process for the Prix Peuplier literary prize, that is awarded to Canadian artists through votes from students of schools that read each of the top ten finalists. Today we began by reading "L'homme sans chaussettes", by Jennifer Couëlle, which tells the story of children showing small acts of kindness toward those less fortunate. This was the perfect connection to our recent Easter learning in our Religion class, and we discussed how reaching out to others can help us to be more like Jesus.
In Religion class, we learned about the important symbols of Easter (the 'Lamb of God', flowers and Easter eggs which symbolize birth and new beginnings, as well as the cross).
We also spent some time learning about the meaning of Easter eggs, and how they come from Eastern European traditions. We made our own eggs decorated to show symbols of Easter, with some very creative results!


We then worked in groups to create a survey that we will use later on this week to learn about our participation in Mass, and understanding of Easter Symbols...Check out our great work!







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21 March 2016

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!

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4 March 2016

Agendas:

-Wear green on Monday for our Feast of Saint Patrick day!
-We are going to Mass on Monday, March 7th at Saint Francis de Sales Parish at 1:00. We are walking to Church, so dress appropriately for the weather!


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

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2 March 2016

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!)

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