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