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