April 14th

Today, we had music where we played a game about a wolf.

We were talking about numbers going higher and lower.

We learned how to use comic life, keynote and book creator.

We wrote in our agendas and did Spirit Buddies.

We read in French.

We talked about Easter and Spring in French. We talked about the Easter bunny.

This week

 Jan.31 2014.

We saw Ace Burpee and people got there hat signed by Ace and he was bald!

On Tuesday we went to the Children's Museum, and we got to make a ruler, we got to play with golfball's, we got to build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato head, are tour guid was named Mario, I think the Children's Museum know's alot of French too, we got to play on the Spagettie and Meatball play 

structure, we got to play with fake stones on a fake bridge and we got to go head first down a slide!

We got to go on a train and on a bulldozer.

by, Alexander and Kieran.

Daily 5 - Hard at work!

For the past month the students have been working hard at implementing the Daily 5 into our ELA routines. The Daily 5 are a great wait to gain independence while enjoying the choice to choose our activity in our learning.
The Daily 5 are :

Read to Self (sitting in a comfortable position, reading in our heads, head in our books)

Read to Someone - Sitting EEKK (elbow to elbow and knee to knee) we read together while whispering to one another.

Listening Centre - At the listening centre, we choose a book and listen to the story no more than 3 at a time.

Writing - Free writing in our journals. What ever our hearts desire we can write about it and draw in our English journals.

Word Work - This is a great time to practice our word families and spelling words for the week. We can work with a friend using the small white boards, we can use the magnetic letters, etc. 

And just for fun, we've added a 6th routine, which is Reading with Mme. In a group setting, we sit and work on different parts of reading. Currently we are focusing on fluidity in our reading and understanding what we read.

January 27th - our weekend!

Mon. Jan. 27. 2014.

On my weekend I went skating at Vimi Arena and saw some of my best frends, Isaac, Aaren and Shay.

And I went to church.

Today I have a playdate with my other frend named Rylynn.

Kieran.

On sun. I played NHL 13.

Alexander.

Week of January 20 to January 24

 On Jan. 24th 2014.  We did our hand writing with out tears.  

And Felix wrote about Minecraft and read it to the class.

We did Daily 5 and these are what our choises were: writing in our journal, reading to our self, ( reading to our self) reading to a partner, reading with Mme lemoine, lisining to reading ( lisining to books on cd's) and word work.

Joceline's mom read us two books.

And Ben's mom read us two books.

And Mme lemoine read us a French book too.

by, Kieran and Alexander.

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS WHO CAME TO READ TO US THIS WEEK!

Wednesday, January 8th

Post by: Alexander & Kieran

We played math games.

We have 7 IPads now. Hurray!

We are staring Daily 5 tomorrow.

Sara, Joceline, Ben, Noah and Sydney are having a play called Frozen.

December 8-13 - Another Friday 13th!

Only one week left before the holiday break and we keep on working and working!
This week we studied many good things.

We mailed our letters to Santa Claus. Fingers crossed everyone is on the Good List this year! :)

We worked hard on making our cards and gifts for our parents. Only a little more paint and we're DONE! It's well worth it! Just you wait and see! Everyone is very excited!

We decorated little Christmas trees and wrote about them in French.

We even got invited by the Heritage Retirement Home to come and sing to the residents next Monday. That means we had to practice our carols. (And still practice them this weekend! Here are the songs we plan on singing (youtube.com has great videos for these songs along with the lyrics):

- Frosty the Snowman
- Mr Grinch
- Oh Christmas Tree
- Quand le Pere Noel vient me visiter
- We wish you a Merry Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
- Deck The Halls

Since we're practicing those songs, might as well practice our Winter Concert song too.

December 2 - December 6

Well, another week has come and gone. My! My! We have been busy!
This week we wrote to Santa. We composed our letters and they are ready to go! Now if we can just find the time to address our letter. :S

We also learned new holiday vocabulary in French, in particular pieces in a Christmas Tree. Dans un sapin de Noel, il y a des grelots (bells), des guirlandes (garland), des lumieres (lights), des etoiles (stars), des boules de Noel (ball ornaments), des decorations (decorations), and many more. (See Vocabulary section for pronunciation and pictures) ** VOCABULARY SECTION WILL NOT BE UPDATED UNTIL NEXT WEEK** (my iPad died-where the video is stored-and my recharging cord is at school.)

We also had 3 assemblies this week. On Tuesday, we had the Minister of Education and a few MLA's come to our school for an announcement. On Wednesday, we had Take Pride, Winnipeg! come and present us with a bench! That's right! We collected more than 31,000 plastic bags during the Bags Up, Winnipeg campaign and earned 2 bird houses and a bench all made with plastic bags. Then on Friday afternoon, the Kindergarten classes presented their monthly assembly. At this last assembly, 4 of our very own, Pauline, Declan, Benjamin and Sydney were recognized for speaking well in French and being a good friend. Congratulations!!!

On Friday, we got together with Mme Kirk's class across the hall and made 2 different art projects to celebrate Diwali (a celebration of lights) for the up-coming Winter Concert. We made Rangoli, typically rangoli is made on the ground using coloured rice flour, but we made our designs on cardboard using glue and coloured rice. We also decorated elephants with jewelled stickers and lots and lots of glitter. How our art is beautiful!

**PICTURES TO COME! Once iPad recharged!**

Conferences, Field Trip and more

Another week has passed and can you believe it, it's already DECEMBER!!! How time flies!!

I have attached a few photos of our trip to the Manitoba Museum and the Science Gallery. I have also attached the video of everyone building their vehicles and a photo of our Retro Dance-A-Thon.
Enjoy!

It's funny how the public hotel house became the jail. :)

Retro Dance-A-Thon, everyone was styling on Wednesday!

Ahoy Matey! Aboard the Nonsuch!

School is fun!

Joceline says: We talked about snow in French and in English we learned about nouns. We also watched a video of the Cat Came Back and changed the lyrics.

Pauline says: We made snowflakes.

Alexander says: We made cars out of legos, K'nex and wooden blocks.

Benjamin says: Sara sang us a song called "Roar" by Katy Perry.

RACING!!

This week we created a car for science and we had a chance to race it against Mme Eyjolfson's class.
Then we added a 1 kg weight to see how things would fair. 

This week we did...

Ben says - The Grade 5 students came to our classroom to read with us. We read them a story and they read us a story.

Cole says - We got to wear our P.J.'s at school.

Elizabeth adds - We wore our slippers too.

Emily says - Mme Towells let us make engines to show how we are feeling, low, just right and high.

Alexis says - Yesterday we had a school party for Hallowe'en.

Kieran says - We practiced a new math game.

Sara says - Mme read us It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! and we watched the video.

Joceline says - We got to wear our Hallowe'en costumes.

Jordyn B. says - We tested our pumpkins to see if they floated.

Braeden says - We did experiments on our pumpkins.

Adam says - On Hallowe'en all the teachers were dressed as crayons.

Noah says - We put chains around our pumpkins.

Kieran says - On Hallowe'en, we had Grade 1 partners during the morning activities.

We Rock!

Jordyn B. - We decorated the classroom for Hallowe'en!

Noah - We talked with Mme Towells about Friendship.

Declan - We had the Grade 5 class come to read to us.

Cole - We made our own pattern using Hallowe'en pictures.

Alexis - We made sunsets by using red and yellow paints.

Joceline - We went up to the Art Room and we did stuff with Mme Lise and M. Ian.

Elizabeth - We made 2 books about our pumpkins.

School Rocks!

OH NO!!! A technological glitch has cause all our students' comments to disappear... I guess I will have to come to the rescue and say what we did this week. The title of this post is by the students and I will try and remember what they mentioned we did this week.

This week we had a police officer (Officer Andrea) and an artist come to our school. We got to learn about personal safety and dance!

We also studied patterns. We took a walk around the school looking for patterns. So many all around us!

We had Fun Lunch of pizza from Boston Pizza today. That was exciting!

Check out our actions video we did in French. It's placed under the Vocabulary page.

We talked about Halloween. We decided we are going to decorate the classroom for Halloween.

This week at a glance...

This week was pretty busy,

We learned about vegetables in French since it's Thanksgiving this weekend.
(For French vegetable vocabulary go to the Vocabulary page.)

We made turkey feathers stating 3 things we were thankful for.

We had a full day of Popcorn activities:

1. Popcorn Glyphs:
Bag colour : our favourite colour
Lines or circles: Microwave or Air Popper
# of lines or circles: Our age
Salt shaker with an X: don't like salt; without: like salt
Yellow popcorn: like butter; White popcorn: no butter.

2. Kernels:
Discussed how and why a kernel of popcorn pops with our Grade 5 Reading Buddies.

3. Performed a Popcorn Poem:

Brain Technique!

"This week we made a clay brain," says Sara.

 

"We wrote in our journals," says Noah.

"We learned what kind of smart we are," says Joceline.

"We had an assembly on Friday afternoon," exclaims Elizabeth.

"We changed our spots at the tables," says Alex.

"We made a graph of our class smarts," says Emily.

"We made a glyph of a paper fish," says Declan.










"We learned a new math game," says Jordyn B.

September 23-27

Pauline remembers that we learned about crocodiles in math. The crocodile likes to eat larger numbers.

 "We had the Terry Fox Run on Friday, September 27th." - Sara

"We learned the following song and revisited the Sur, sous, dans song." - Alex

Chanson des voyelles:

A E I O U,
A E I O U,
A E I O U,
Est la famille de voyelles!




Pauline announced that we learned about VOWELS!

"We read some French books this week like "Je me soucie des autres." - Joceline

"We wrote every day in French and English."- Kieran

Second Full Week!

What a busy week! We've been working hard at developing a routine and learning.

Firstly we learnt a song in Science about positions. Have a listen and sing along!


Sur, sous, dans,
Devant, derrière,
Devant, derrière,
Devant, derrière.

Sur, sous, dans,
Devant, derrière,
À côté de... MOI!

We also started home reading. 

We learned odd and even numbers.

And every day we've been writing in French and English while using a pencil grip that will allow us to hold our pencils correctly.

Please Clean Up your Room by Itah Sadu

The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

The Bears We Know by Brenda Silsbe

First Day Back!!

Wow! What a day? It was SO nice to see everyone today at school and ready to go! We spent much of the day going over class expectations and even expectations of Mme. We started discussing some of our class routines.

We talked about respect and we even did a sheet about what we did this summer.

I am VERY excited that we have a wonderful mix of people in our class. We have artists and great spellers! I know this is going to be a great year. Well done to everyone! Fantastic first day! 

Mme Lemoine