Hello parents!

We enjoyed a beautiful Remembrance Day assembly today with prayers, songs and symbolic gifts brought up to the altar. Our class made a lovely cross decorated with poppies with Mme Holmes. We also continued our liturgy experience in class by having our first official liturgy. We learned about how families can be very diverse, and we learned that a family is made up of people who love and support one another, and who enjoy spending time together. Our job for tonight was to promise one thing that we would do to show our love and appreciation for everyone at home. Look out for our acts of kindness!

Agendas:
-Our youngest/only students received a dark green letter outlining our class' responsibilities for our Christmas grocery drive. Our class will bring in rice, pasta, canned vegetables, paper towels, and ketchup. Donations will be greatly appreciated to help those in need this holiday season!
-Pizza day tomorrow; please remember to bring extra snacks!

Hello parents!

Today we were back as secret agent spies, and putting our spy skills to work with our descriptive writing! We secretly observed one classmate throughout the day, and recorded our observations in full sentences. We then had fun guessing at who was spying on us, with some surprising results! Tomorrow we will be reading L'agent Secret story in class, and a copy will come home for your child to share with you! 

Secret Agent Math!

Today we were sneaky spies on the case of the trickiest math problems, in an attempt to save the world from the terrible word problem! We understood that solving a case requires us to use pictures and words in addition to calculations when showing our work. We made sure to explain our thinking, because that is more important than simply a correct answer! We used our Top Secret spy portfolios as well as our cool soy gadgets to solve our problems. We will be using our spy skills tomorrow with our SCOOT! math, and some spying for our descriptive writing! 

Happy Friday!

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

Agendas:
-Wear all black on Monday for "Spy Day"
-Complete Extreme Pita orders online

I look forward to meeting with all of you next week for our Parent-Teacher interviews!

SCOOT!

Hi parents!

Thank you to everyone who submitted their purple Parent Questionnaire forms today! They will be very helpful to prepare for our interviews next week!

We were putting our creative minds to work today with our Writer's Workshop! We mapped out our story of The Paper Bag Princess (La princesse à la robe de papier) by Robert Munsch. We then took on the task of writing the same story, but from another character's perspective. We wrote some amazing stories from the point of view of the dragon, Prince Ronald, and even some creative new characters! We also read the story, Un histoire à quatre voix (Voices in the Park), to discuss how characters in a story can explain the same situation with very different views and opinions.

You can find the link to the YouTube video of La princesse à la robe de papier {HERE}!

Agendas:
-Parent conference questionnaires
-Pita orders due next Thursday, November 12th

Bonjour!

Agendas:
-Please complete the purple parent questionnaire in your child's agenda, to let me know if there are any specific points you wish to discuss at our upcoming parent conferences. You can find an extra copy of the page {HERE}!



We had a very busy day today! We began the day with a Three-Act math problem. We looked at the video, which you can find {HERE}. We then worked in groups to use our knowledge from the clue video to find a creative solution to the problem. We had some very creative results! We maintained our focus of communicating our thinking and showing evidence of our problem solving steps, rather than simply achieving a correct answer.

Here are some examples of our awesome group work: