An Overdue Update!

Hello,

My apologies for the delay in the blogging. I was quite sick the week of parent-teacher interviews, and I've been busy playing catchup this week.

We're working away on our animal theme and the kids are enjoying it. Next week we'll be working the theme of fruits and vegetables for two weeks.

In math we've started to work on the concept of parts of the whole, i.e if we have ten apples and we divide them into two groups of five, we still have ten apples. We've also been working on addition as it links to this concept i.e 5 apples + 5 apples = 10 apples.

We have started our literacy centres and they are going well! Students are divided into groups of four and spend 25 minutes at their specified centre for the day. The centres are guided reading, puppet station where students practice different sentence structures with puppets, a listening station where students have a headset on and listen to a book on cd as they follow along, and a word making station where students use modeling clay to write the words of the week. Right now we also have the French Immersion literacy coach for our family of schools in our classroom for an hour every morning. She assists with the literacy centres and then leads some intensive French language activities for 25 minutes.

As you may have noticed, I sent home permission slips for a Christmas play that will be staged at La Centre Belle Alliance next Tuesday November 23rd. We will be heading over to the play in the morning and will be back at school for lunch. It should be a great time!

Report cards will be given to students on Thursday November 25th. If you have any questions or concerns about your child's report card, please contact me.

Sub orders - If you'd like to place a sub order for your child, please submit it on Tuesday morning each week.  I have to have all sub orders submitted to the office on Tuesday mornings.

School photos - I sent home the students' school photos today. Please check their backpacks!

A reminder that Friday November 26th is a professional development day for teachers, so there will be no classes for students.

Take care,

Ellen

Le mois de novembre

Hello,

This month our theme is "Our Friends the Animals". We will be exploring vocabulary about animals, animals' needs, habitat, etc... I think the kids will really enjoy this unit.

An important event coming up are parent-teacher interviews. I will be hosting them from during after school and early evening hours on next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be sending home notes in the students' agendas tomorrow. Please write a note in your child's agenda to let me know whether or not your time slot works for you or not. Remember that there is no school on Thursday November 11th (Remembrance Day) nor Friday November 12th.

In Math, we are progressing onto bigger sums, and adding numbers onto ten. For example 10 + 2 = 12, or 10 + 4 = 14. We will continue or work on representing numbers in different ways and the constancy of values.

As always, please contact me if you have any questions.

Madame Ellen