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