Friday, April 3rd, 2020

April 3, 2020

Hello Parents and Students,

With the current pandemic and the cancellation of classes, an average of five hours per week of at home learning opportunities, as directed by Alberta Education (https://www.alberta.ca/student-learning-during-covid-19.aspx

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) will now be accessible using Google Classroom. Please refer to the School Messenger emails from April 2 and April 3 for all the details and log in information that you will need.

The blog will not be updated after today.

See you in the virtual Google Classroom!

Kelly Meutzner

keharris@cbe.ab.ca

March 20th, 2020

Dear families,

I have been thinking about you all constantly and I hope that you are all safe and sound.  

Here are a few updates that I have for you:

·      I will be in touch about when other school/personal items can be picked up.

·      Yearbook – We are still creating a yearbook for this school year and it will be provided to families at the end of the year or when it is possible.

·      Sound Kreations Dance videos were not taken as we intended due to the cancellation of classes, but M Trevor is going through videos he had taken and will continue to try and make them available. He will be in contact with when he knows more.

I will be in contact when I have more information about programming but for now you can visit this CBE website:

https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/default.aspx

Stay safe and healthy and I will be in touch.

Mme Kelly

Le 13 mars

Today we...
-wrote to the Star of the Week in complete sentences with capital letters at the beginning and a period at the end.
-worked on demonstrating our understanding of Iqaluit through our quilt square. We drew about what we decided were the most important things to know about Iqaluit (geography, climate, language, natural resources, tourism, environmental protection, music, art, goods, etc.)
-learned about how germs enter through our bodies during Health. Ask me about it!
-earned some free learning center time at the end of the day where we chose a math, French, or technology activity.

Reminders:
Heritage Park field trip forms are due on Monday.
Library exchange is on Tuesday.
The Dance performance is cancelled on Monday evening. There will be more information to follow from Mme Brinson or M Trevor.

Bon week-end

Le 12 mars

Today we...

-continued working on our Daily 5 work and Mme Kelly worked with students on their Grade 2 sounds.
-started our final art project for Iqaluit. We talked about what Mme Kelly is looking for in our quilt square and what a 1, 2, 3, and 4 looks like.
-talked about what our spoken French should sound like in Grade 2 and discussed what a 1, 2, 3, and 4 sounds like when we speak. Ask me about it! We then played a speaking game called Taboo to help us practice.
-worked on using a number line as a tool in math for addition and subtraction. Mme Kelly finished working with students on one double digit addition strategy. 


Reminder:
Home reading books and duotangs are due tomorrow for exchange.
PJ day tomorrow! We worked really hard this week and won a PJ day!
Half day tomorrow (dismissal at noon)

Le 11 mars

Today we...

-worked on our Daily 5 centers:

• Reading to self with a visualization to help show our understanding when reading
• Reading with a partner and discussing what happened in the book or what information we get
• Word work - we played word games to help us spell the words of the week (une question, qui, quoi, est-ce que, chaque, la musique). If we already know how to spell these words, we found other words with the 'qu' sound to practice with our games
• Listening to reading - We are listening to the story  'L'incroyable invention de Félicio'. We have to listen for the characters, the setting, the problem and the solution.
• Reading with Mme Kelly - we practiced guided reading with our teacher. We are focusing on decoding this week and Mme Kelly is checking which grade 2 sounds we know and which ones we need to improve.

-worked on our place value strategy for double digit addition with Mme Kelly:

25+38=

Tens: 20+30=50

Ones: 5+8=13

Total: 63

This strategy shows our understanding of place value when adding. We will be working on developing other strategies in the coming weeks such as using a number line. 

-learned about protecting the environment and why people visit Iqaluit. Ask me about it!

Reminders: 

Please return Heritage Park forms by Monday, March 16th

Sound Kreations Dance performance is on Monday, March 16th from 6-630pm. Hope to see you there!

Our next library exchange is on Tuesday, March 17th.

Le 9 mars

Today we...

-danced with Ajay!
-read a story about growth mindset called "I Can Handle It" Ask me about it!
-worked on our Daily 5 centers (Read to self, read with a partner, word work, listening to reading, and working with Mme Kelly).
- played our Math Monday game! Please practice all week.
-did a science experiment about
-started to learn how to protect the environment in Iqaluit.


Reminder:
Please bring in pictures related to dance.
Please return Heritage Park field trip forms by March 16th.

Le 6 mars

Today we...

-wrote to the star of the week!
-caught up on some unfinished work from the week (social studies and French writing)
-read with our Grade 5 reading buddies!
-played "Chasse à 0" in math to work on subtractions.
-practiced our oral French in Sharing circle at the end of the day.


Reminders:
To support our Social Studies unit on the past, we will be visiting Heritage Park on March 30th. Permission forms were sent home today! Please return them by March 16th.

Bring in photos about dance in your life for M Trevor.

Bon week-end!

Le 5 mars

Today we...

-had a sharing circle to share our goals for the day.
-practiced reading to self while Mme Kelly read with students.
-exchanged our books at the library
-played a game called "Taboo" in order to practice our oral French language. We pick a card with an image and describe it without saying what it is. When we practice our oral language, it helps to improve our reading and writing.
-worked on representing numbers in math.
-learned about what substances mixed or didn't mix with water. We talked about how making predictions in science is important and that they don't have to be right.
-continued learning about the services that are available in Iqaluit.

Reminder:
Home reading duotangs and book can be returned tomorrow for exchange!

Le 4 mars

Today we...
-continued our discussion on expected and unexpected classroom behaviour.
-practiced read to self while Mme Kelly was able to read with students.
-practiced reading with a partner by listening and asking our partner if they needed help or time.
-worked on our letters to Mme Kelly so that she can get to know us better!
-played Tim Horton's Double Double to practice our doubling skills and Mme Kelly worked with students on their place value strategy for addition. Ask me about it!
76+15
Dizaines: 70+10=80
Unités: 6+5=11
Réponse: 80+11=91
-did a science experiment about water's surface tension! Ask me about it!
-learned about the services in Iqaluit that help people and how there is only one library.
-continued learning our hip hop dance with Ajay!


Reminders:

• Library tomorrow
• Bring in or email (keharris@cbe.ab.ca) photos to help Mme Kelly get to know us better. We will be continuing this task next week as she sits down with each of us with our letter and pictures. Students will take their photos home after they share them with Mme Kelly :)

Le 2 mars

Today we...

-got to know Mme Kelly a bit better! She had a puppy named Doug. She has a baby named Ceit (Kate) and her husband loves to fish.
-danced in the gym with Ajay! Ask me about it!
-finished up our writing about what is expected in Room 6 for our classroom to run smoothly
-Math Monday game! Roll down from 100. Please play all week!
-finished our writing for 'étoile de la semaine' and listened to a new presentation

Reminders:
Library on Thursday
Bring in or send photos of things that we would like to share with Mme Kelly so she can get to know us better!
Bring something for the bulletin board in gym that is dance related

le 28 fév

Today...


-we worked on showing gratitude to each other by writing thank you notes
-we read a story about unity and then discussed how we can show unity in class and what we need to do to work together
-we took calming breaks and practiced our deep breathing
-we forgot to write to our star of the week but we will do that on Monday!
-we practiced "Read to Self"
-we had a practice lockdown and did a really great job!

 Bon week-end!

Reminder: Library is on Thursday next week

Le 27 février

Today...

-we finished all of our marbles! We worked hard and earned a pj day/crazy hair day! Students can wear their pyjamas and bring a stuffed animal or wear their hair in a crazy way.
-we built our stamina to 10 minutes of 'Reading to Self'!
-we started a listening task where we listened for the problem and solution of a story about a monster!
-we played a new math game while some students worked with Mme Kelly to post in Iris or on a math word problem.
-we did a science experiment observing the shape of drops of different liquids. Ask me about it!
-we started to learn about the water cycle and will continue this next week!

Reminder: Home reading duotangs and books can come in for exchange tomorrow!

-Salle 6

Le 26 février

Today...

-we played a hockey game in the gym
-we developed our reading stamina to 7 minutes and 30 seconds
-we practiced our oral language journal using the calendar sentences
(Aujourd'hui c'est, Demain ce sera, Hier c'était), then we practiced saying sentences with the words of the week. When we practice speaking, our writing and reading comprehension improve!
-we wrote sentences using what we talked about in our journal oral
-we practiced subtraction from 100 by playing chasse à 0. Ask me about it!
-we played "Should I or Shouldn't I" and talked about expected and unexpected behaviour
-we talked about pink shirt day and discussed all the kind things we could do for others

Salle 6

Le 25 février

Today:

-we worked on catching up our work for natural resources, goods, and jobs in Iqaluit.
-we played a new game called "Should I or Shouldn't I" and talked expected behaviours for different scenarios.
-we played "Chasse à 100" to work on our addition skills
-we went to the library
-We talked about the wise owl and the barking dog. Ask me about it!


 Reminder: Pink shirt tomorrow!!!

-Salle 6

Le 24 février

Today...

-We worked on our Social Studies and we learned about hunters and how it is an important job for people there.

-We talked more about expected and unexpected behaviour in our classroom. We talked about taking breaks when we need them in order to show expected behaviour.

-We practiced reading with a partner and by ourselves. We made it to 5 minutes today!

-We listened to the Star of the week presentation

-We did Spark this morning to help us start our day in a Wise Owl state. Ask me about it!

-We wrote about our weekend and worked really hard at it! Mme Kelly was impressed.

-We are watching closely our science evaporation experiment!
-New Math Monday game! Please play all week!

-Salle 6

Le 21 février

Bonjour!
Today we:

- Worked on picking good fit books for reading. We learned about picking books that interest us and books that we know how to read. Ask me how I can pick a good fit book!

-We visited our reading buddies today in the gym for Friday Share. They presented their electricity projects to us!

-We wrote to our star of the week and worked on some unfinished work from this week.

-Pink Shirt Day is on Wednesday! We will be talking about this next week.

Mme Kelly had a great week getting to know everyone! If you need to get in touch with her she can be reached by email:
keharris@cbe.ab.ca

Le 20 février

Bonjour!

Today we:

-We built our stamina for reading to self (la lecture à soi). We are able to read for 4 minutes straight as a class without getting distracted. Tomorrow our goal is 5 minutes and we will continue to work on this next week!

-We practiced our words of the week using play dough. When we practice spelling in different ways including using our hands, it helps us to remember better.

-We learned how to read with a partner by listening and asking them if they need help or time.

-We have started putting pictures of our math into Iris. This week we represented 100 to celebrate the 100th day! Hopefully we can finish uploading these tomorrow.

-We worked on our sentences and drawings for the natural resources and products in Iqaluit. Ask me what I know about them!

-We continued our discussion of expected and unexpected classroom behaviour and discussed respect towards others and ourselves.


Reminders:
Please send in home reading duotangs and books in for exchange tomorrow:)

le 18 février

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6 we met our new teacher Mme Kelly!

• She taught us a game called two truths and a lie.
• We talked about expected and unexpected classroom behaviors.
• We had music.
• We learned a new math game!
• We learned about natural resources for Iqaluit.
• Mme Kelly wanted to get to know us better so we made a puzzle piece with all of our favorite things on it.

Merci,

Mme Kelly and Mme Lauren

le 12 février

Bonjour,

Thank you all so much for the beautiful book and flowers, what a special last day in Salle 6!

Today in Sale 6:

• We had a special Carnaval music class.
• We learned about other cultures in Iqaluit - there is a very small Francophone population.  
• We had a number talk and did some addition and subtraction colouring pages.
• We made bags to put our valentines in.
• We did a classroom tidy and cleaned out our desks!  Thank you to the students for helping with tasks such as organizing our home reading bins and checking decks of cards.
• We exchanged Valentines Day Cards.
• We had our Carnaval défilé with the school and we shared our flags.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 11 février

Bonjour,

Reminders:

• If you would like to bring in Valentines day cards we will do an exchange tomorrow!  Please remember no food or candy, if anything is sent in it will be returned back home.  If you would like to participate please send for all of the students on the list sent home last week to ensure no one is left out!

Today in salle 6:

• We can really see the difference in water level now!  We know that this is because of evaporation!

• We had a very busy day with Carnaval activities today.  We had les courses en canot, les courses en sac and skating!  Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who helped us to tie skates!
• In math we worked on practicing two digit addition.  Forour number talk we had one sum and students made several suggestions for how we could reach that sum.  Thank you to the students who have been working hard to finish their pattern cities and their flags.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 10 février

Bonjour,

Reminder: 
-Tuque day tomorrow!
-We will be skating in gym, please remember skates and helmets!

Today in salle 6:
-We wrote about our weekends
-We went to the library
-We had a math talk using symbols (< >) which numbers are bigger

 

-We worked on our pattern project
-We learned a new math game!  Copies went home in green envelopes today.
-We leaned about art in Iqaluit.
-We played hockey outside for Carnaval!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

Carnaval

Bonjour,

This week at VAS we will be celebrating Carnaval.  There is a special theme each day if students would like to dress up!

Monday - Plaid Day
Tuesday - Toque Day
Wednesday - Canadian / Winter Wear day

As a school we will be participating in several outdoor activities each day.  Please ensure students have winter boots, hats and gloves every day.

Please e-mail me if you have any questions.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend!

Mme Lauren

le 7 février

Bonjour,

Reminders:

• Library Monday, please send books!

Today in salle 6:

We had a very busy day with choice and curiosity and our Carnaval kickoff! Ask students which teachers they met and what game they played.

We wrote about our star of the week ALB!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mme Lauren

le 6 février

Bonjour,

Reminders:

• Tomorrow we will have a Carnaval kick off assembly, please where your red, white and blue!
• Tomorrow we will have our choice and curiosity day, students may bring one board game to school if they would like.
• Please watch for an e-mail regarding valentines day coming out tonight.

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily five, ask students which centres they had today.
• We continued our writing about snowmen.
• We had a math talk finding different numbers to make up the same sum.  We played a tic-tac-toe math game.
• We continued designing our pattern cities, a few students finished and stamped their final work.
• We made a class cheer for Carnaval, our cheer is Bonhomme, Bonhomme on est Salle 6!
• We started working on making flags for ourselves.  We talked about the flags we have learned about so far this year and how the colours and symbols all represent different things.
• We played a game in gym that is a version of dodgeball with bowling pins!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 5 février

Bonjour,

Food Allergies or sensitivities to hot chocolate and croissants?
On Wednesday, February 12th, students will be provided with hot chocolate and croissants as part of our celebration of French Canadian food and culture.  If you do not want your child to eat this snack, please send me an email to let me know prior to Tuesday, February 11th and send a special snack for your child on February 12th.  (Thank you VASPFS for funding this treat for the school!)

Literacy Night
Reminder that tomorrow night there is a literacy night for parents and guardians hosted by Jennifer McCann.  If you are interested in attending and have not already signed up, here is the link!  https://forms.gle/585rrbPeSx5Krtf2A. I hope to see you there!

Tomorrow is Healthy Hunger school lunch.

Students have been signing up for our next choice and curiosity day which is this Friday. Our choice and Curiosity days give students an opportunity to meet other students and teachers in the school.  We will focus on the skills of winning and loosing graciously.  Students are welcome to bring a board game to play during this time.  Please keep in mind we will only have 30 minutes to play!

Today in salle 6:
-We had daily 5.
-We have been talking about our virtue of the month which is empathy.
-We started writing stories about snowmen.
-We had music.
-We did a math talk with 2 digit addition and then we worked on our pattern cities.
-We wrote about festivals and celebrations in Iqaluit.
-We looked at our science project, the jar without the lid has definitely lost some water, but only a very little bit!  We talked about different ways we can dry fabric when it gets wet.
-We had gym with M. Trevor.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 4 février

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

• We had our last day of gymnastics today. (CB)
• We saw a Bill Nye video about gas, solid and liquid. (GVDB)
• We started a new project in math, we are building cities out of patterns. (ALB)
• We filled up two jars with water, we put a lid on one but not the other.  We made a prediction that the water level would only go down in the jar without the lid.  So far it has only gone down a very little bit. (MH)
• We had daily 5. (HJ)
• We used a checklist to help us edit our work for capitals, punctuation and how many sentences we wrote! (HH)
• We did our message of the day. (FC)

Merci,

Salle 6

le 3 février

Bonjour,

Reminders:

• We do not have a library visit this week!  We will have library on Monday morning next week.
• Please dress for gym on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week!

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily five.
• We wrote about our weekends, tomorrow we will check our work using our writing checklist.
• We had music with Mme Zdrill.
• We learned a new math game.  Reminders for 2 digit addition, we need to always add the one's first and if sum is a 2 digit number we need to carry a number.
• Our star of the week AB did her presentation!  She shared a very funny book with our class.
• We learned about music in Iqaluit.  We watched a video about throat singing and we watched some traditional dance.
• We started learning about the different food groups in Health.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 30 janvier

Bonjour,

Report cards are now available online.  Mme Brinson has sent out an e-mail with directions on how to access the report cards.

There is no school tomorrow for students.

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 29 janvier

Bonjour,

Reminders:

• Please send home reading for tomorrow.
• No school Friday.
• Please dress for gym tomorrow.
• Parents and guardians are invited to our school literacy night on Thursday, February 6th.  Teacher Mme Jennifer McCann will be presenting on how children learn to read, what the current research tells us is most effective and important, and how to best support your child.  A question and answer period will follow.  Please register online at: https://forms.gle/585rrbPeSx5Krtf2A if you are able to attend.

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily five!
• We went to the library, if you forgot your books today, please send tomorrow!
• We had math and we practiced making our own scale math equations.
• We reviewed the difference between et (and) and est (is) we put the right word into sentences and then we wrote our own sentences.
• In Social Studies we learned about food in Iqaluit.  It is very expensive to buy food because it is hard to get to and shipments only come in twice a week.  Ask students if they remember how much apple sauce can cost!
• We had outdoor time this afternoon as we did not have gym.
• In health we talked about making teams and resolving conflict when we are playing outside.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 28 janvier

Bonjour,

Reminders:
-Library tomorrow, please bring books to exchange
-Yearbook sales are on until Friday, January 31st.  Yearbooks are $15 and can be ordered through your powerschool account.
-Parents and guardians are invited to our school literacy night on Thursday, February 6th.  Teacher Mme Jennifer McCann will be presenting on how children learn to read, what the current research tells us is most effective and important, and how to best support your child.  A question and answer period will follow.  Please register online at: https://forms.gle/585rrbPeSx5Krtf2A if you are able to attend.
-No gym tomorrow, but gym on Thursday!

Today in salle 6:
-We had daily 5, you can ask students about which centre they participated in today.
-We used our new writing checklists to check are own work for capitals, punctuation, spelling and the date.  Myself or Mme Emily worked one-on-one with each student to check the checklist and make sure it is a tool that can help us to become even better writers!
-In math we did a balance number talking finding how many ways we could find different sums for 32.
-We wrote in our journals three different ways to find the sum of 21 + 34.

-We also talked about attributes for patterns.  We put blue and green circles, and blue and green triangles on the board. First we made pattern using shapes and second we made the same pattern but using colours.

-We talked about the water cycle in science, we watched a little video and then students drew and presented their work with a partner.

-In health we watched some class dojo video's on what to do if you feel stuck when you are working or something feels to hard.  We talked about strategies like asking for help, trying a different way, or taking a break and coming back when you feel ready.

-In gym students continued to present their gymnastics routines and they had time to explore on the Canadian Climber!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 27 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily 5.
• We wrote about our weekends!  We have new checklists to check our work for the date, capitals, punctuation, spelling and clarity.  We will finish our work tomorrow morning and check it ourselves.
• We had music.
• We did a new math talk using a balance image.
• We learned a new math game called connect four, students have a copy in their green envelopes!
• In Social Studies we walked about people.  Inuit are the First Nations people who live in Canada's North.  We looked at some of their words and it looks very different from French or English because they do not use the same alphabet we do.
• We heard from our star of the week AB!
• We had gym and it was the first day with the Canadian Climber!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 24 janvier

Bonjour,

Reminders:

• Next week please dress for gymnastics on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
• If you forgot home reading today, please send Monday!

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily five and we exchanged home reading books.
• We wrote about our star of the week.
• We had an outside recess!
• We worked on our unfinished work from the week and had centres.
• We started a Bill Nye video on liquids.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 23 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:
-We had daily five centres.
-We finished our French writing using picture prompts to write descriptions.
-In math we solved a two digit addition problem three different ways.  Then we used post it notes to show patterns in different ways!
-In social studies we talked about daily life in Iqaluit, the population is 7740, it is a very small city!
-We had gym and M. Trevor started evaluating our routines.  I am working to film them and we will add onto IRIS once they are all done!
-We had art time to work on our northern lights are and the shape art we did with our buddies last week.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 22 janvier

Bonjour,

Reminder: tomorrow we have gym, please dress for gymnastics!

Today in salle 6:

-We did les 5 au quotidien.
-We used pictures to help prompt us for writing in French, we could pick from Pikachu, a soccer player, Elsa, an upside down snowman or a fisherman!
-We had music with Mme Zdrill.
-We worked on representing patterns in different ways in in math.
-We talked about how all living things (plants, people and animals) need water to survive.
-We did an art project using pastels to draw the northern lights.  We learned that in French northern lights are called les aurores boréales.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 21 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

-We had gym and we practiced our routines! (ALB)
-We are learning about Iqaluit and today we learned about the First Nations, in the summers they used to live in tents and in winter they lived in igloos.  (AO)
-We started working on patterns in math and we played our subtraction math game. (GVDB)
-We worked on our shape art. (AEB)
-We had les 5 au quotidien. (SR)
-We looked for words with an accent like this... è and we wrote them on post it notes. (NDO)

Merci,

Salle 6

le 20 janvier

Bonjour,

We had a fun day in Salle 6 with Pyjama day and the students were all very excited to have outdoor recess again!

Today we had daily five and we wrote about our weekends, we are still aiming to write 3-5 sentences.  Today students were checking their own work for capitals and punctuation as well as some of the spelling for words we use often!

We had library today, if students forgot their books please send tomorrow and I will make sure they have time to go in the morning!

In math we learned a new subtraction game, instructions went home in the green envelopes!

Our star of the week LV did his presentation today and we learned lots about him!

In Social Studies we learned about the climate in Iqaluit.  We learned that they have a very long winter and that sometimes it can even snow in the summer!

Reminder: please be dressed for gymnastics tomorrow!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 17 janvier

Bonjour,

We had a great day in Salle 6 and the students filled our marble jar, they voted to have a pyjama day on Monday and they may bring one small stuffed animal!  Our gym days next week are Tuesday and Thursday.

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily 5
• We did an art activity making drawings with shapes with our grade 5 buddies
• We played some games in the gym
• We wrote about our star of the week NO!  I am so impressed with the students every Friday and the effort the put in to do nice work for the star of the week!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mme Lauren

le 16 janvier

Bonjour,

Reminders:
Please remember home reading for tomorrow!

Today in sale 6:
-We had daily 5
-We learned a new activity for our word work center using scrabble tiles to make words and then using the numbers to find the sum of the word
-We worked on showing different ways to show your work for two digit addition
-We learned about the geography in Iqaluit
-We had gym and we kept working on our gymnastics routines.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 15 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily five centers.
• We had music with Mme Zdrill.
• We practiced writing out different math strategies for solving two digit equations.
• We brainstormed ideas for solids, liquids and gas's.
• We found Iqaluit on the Nunavut map.
• We started working on gymnastics routines.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 14 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:
-We had daily 5 centres.
-We brainstormed words for our sound of the week (a hard G like gâteau) and last week (a soft G like il eat gentil). We are very lucky because we have two students in our class who's names start with G and they each make one of the different sounds!
-We worked on grouping lots of items into tens.
-We learned how much of the earth is made up of water! (two thirds!)
-We had a fun gymnastics class with M. Trevor.
-We learned about the Nunavut Flag!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 13 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

• We had daily 5!
• We wrote about our weekends in French, students did a really great job!  Today we focused on making sure we had capital letters at the start of our sentences when 
• We had music class with Mme Zdrill.
• We learned a new math game.
• We started learning about Iqaluit today.  We looked at the temperatures in Calgary and Iqaluit and today Calgary was colder! We found Nunavut on a map of Canada and coloured it in.
• We started a new science unit on liquids, we played a game identifying things as solids or liquids.  Then we wrote and drew about liquids that we can drink vs. liquids that we can not drink.

Reminders:

• Please remember to be dressed for gymnastics as we have gym tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday.
• We do not have library this week.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 10 janvier

Bonjour,

This morning in Salle 6:
-We had daily 5.
-We read our new home reading books with our grade 5 buddies.
-We wrote about our star of the week AO!
-It was too cold to go outside so we watched le bus magique on water, next week we will be starting a new science unit on liquids!
-We had a math talk and talked about different strategies for adding, with a focus on doubling.
-We had pas-fine and centre time.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 9 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:
-We had les 5 au quotidien
-We continued working on out New Years resolutions project, we discussed what we would like to improve, something we would like to accomplish and something we would like to learn throughout this year
-We had indoor recesses today because it was so cold!
-In math we have continued working on 10's and 1's, today we looked at interpreting two digit numbers when they are presented with blocks
-In Social Studies we are working on a final art project for Saskatoon.
-We had gymnastics in gym.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 8 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

-We went to the library, students all have new plastic library bags to bring books to and from school.
-We started a writing project about New Years resolutions.
-We had a quiz in Social Studies.
-We worked on drawing self portraits for the cover of our art scrapbook.

Reminder: Please be ready for gymnastics tomorrow!

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 7 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

• We had les 5 au quotidien!
• We worked on making sentences with our words of the week!
• We practiced reading with a partner!
• This week we are working on 10's and 1's and breaking down numbers by their place value!
• We did an individual review of Saskatoon, we will be moving on to Iqaluit next week!
• We explored with magnet play centres.
• We had gym with M. Trevor.  We are starting gymnastics, please have long hair up and avoid skirts, dresses and hoodies.  Please also avoid wearing any jewellery that could catch.  Our only other gym day this week will be Thursday.

Merci,

Mme Lauren

le 6 janvier

Bonjour,

Today in salle 6:

-We had daily 5
-We wrote about our winter vacation
-We had music
-We learned a new math game (instructions went home in backpacks)
-We heard our star of the week, AO's presentation
-We did a big review with sticky notes of everything we have learned about Saskatoon
-We had gym with M. Trevor

It was so exciting to see all of the Salle 6 students this morning and hear about everyones breaks.

Happy New Year!

Mme Lauren