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30 November 2015

PAgendas:

-Christmas Store opens tomorrow! Items range from $1.00 to $5.00

Today we celebrated our first Advent liturgy together as a school, and we are getting prepared for the Advent season in our class as well!

We created beautiful Advent wreaths with Mme Holmes...

We will be adding to our Nativity scene daily!

We have also changed our Prayer Centre cloth to purple, and are reading passages daily from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth.

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27 November 2015

Hello parents!

Today, we had the pleasure of meeting with Father Gervais in our classroom! We had a great time discussing how we say our prayers at home, and how we can prepare for the season of Advent coming up next week!

Starting on Tuesday, December 1st, students will be able to bring money for our Christmas Store, which will raise funds to benefit families in our school community this holiday season. Items range from one to five dollars, so have your shopping money ready!

You can find your copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}. Have a great weekend!

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26 November 2015

Agendas:

- Popcorn day is tomorrow! Those who did not preorder will have the chance to buy (limited selections of) popcorn for $2.00

-Return picture orders (or order online)

Today we explored our concept of division (separating a large group into smaller equal groups), and of course, who doesn't love Smarties?! We each had 12 Smarties and showed:

1 group of 12

2 groups of 6

3 groups of 4 and

4 groups of 3

We discussed our findings about the relationship between the number of groups, and the size of the group (many small groups of few large groups). We will be working tomorrow on real world scenarios where the size of groups are important (quality vs quantity).

We are also excited to welcome Father Gervais into our class tomorrow for First Reconciliation preparatory class! We will be sending home a copy of our Act of Contrition prayer tomorrow!

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25 November 2015

Hello parents,

Today we received our gorgeous picture day proofs! Please disregard the original picture retake day scheduled for this week. We will let you know when we have a new date.

We worked very hard today on our reading and multiplication learning centres today, and we are also getting ready for our December reading and writing units. We will be reading with a focus on comparing and contrasting. Today we began by using a Venn diagram to track similarities and differences, and we will post pictures tomorrow of our first independent practice with comparisons!

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24 November 2015

Agendas:
-December pizza orders are due tomorrow (Cash only)
-Movie night RSVP ($5.00) due ASAP

This week, we will be working with Biblio-Enfants, an online resource for free online French books with audio recordings. This is offered through the Ajax library, but so far a library card is not necessary.

Instructions:

Click {HERE} to visit the Ajax Public Library website and under Digital Resources, click on "e-books & e-audiobooks"

Scroll to the bottom to Tumblebooks Collection and click on French (BiblioEnfants)

Once you have accessed the site, you can choose from a wide variety of readings! (We will be using "Livres our infants" in class this week)

Your selected reading with will appear with both French and English prompts to help you navigate the website. Please be sure to let me know if you are able (or unable) to access the site from home! Happy reading!

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23 November 2015

Agendas:

-Movie Night money & Subway orders

-December pizza orders

-Yellow parent letter

Hello parents!

Today we began a new round of our literacy and math centres. Our focus for the week is multiplication (__ groups of ___ =___) and writing in full sentences. We will show you photos of our adventures tomorrow!

Today we also began our work with Émilie Éléphant (like the "ay" sound in day). We looked at ways to make this sound in French (é, er at the end of words: parler). We also discussed common pitfalls where we may accidentally make this sound when reading.

We began learning about Peter (St. Peter) as the leader (the "rock") upon which Jesus began his Church following. We read the story about how Simon became Peter in The Bible, and our first Pope. Read the story below!

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19 November 2015

Hello and happy Thursday! Remember that tomorrow is a PA day!

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

We finished our work with Isabelle Iguane today, and concluded with our "craftivity", which we will post on Monday! Today, we also started learning about the Ten Commandments, and we have found a great poster to hang in our class with "God's Top Ten":