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!