Happy Friday!

Hello learning friends!

Today in Math was all about place value and BIG numbers!
We worked in table groups to guess numbers, compare numbers, add numbers, subtract numbers and write numbers!

Now that we've worked with BIG numbers, we will shift our focus to small numbers next week, taking a look at numbers less than 1. It's going to be great! :)

Have a super weekend! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Calcul Mental Assessment - Monday

2. Scholastic Orders due Monday
(Visit Scholatic.ca online for full access to all the book titles. Additional paper flyers can be sent home on request).

3. CFOO #4 - Les opinions - Tuesday, December 3.

Happy Thursday!

Hello, learning friends!
We had a great day morning of learning together!

In Math, we started learning about place value and listened to the story, Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens.

Next, in Français, after our daily reading time, we sat together in small groups and shared our goals with one another.

Lastly, in Science, we continued our discussion about the Sun and read the story, The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal.

What a fun day! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Calcul Mental Section B - Friday

2. Journée des chevaliers - Friday
*Wear your Chevaliers gear or school colours (grey, black, white, green) on Friday to show your school spirit!

3. Scholastic Orders due Monday, December 2 to ensure delivery before Christmas.
(Visit Scholatic.ca online for full access to all the book titles. Additional paper flyers can be sent home on request).

4. CFOO #4 - Les opinions - Tuesday, December 3.

A Math question and a Dia de los muertos Craft-ivity!

A new day, a new Math problem!

"105"

In how many ways can 105 be expressed as the sum of at least two consecutive 

positive integers?

Ex: 17

8 + 9

***

Ex: 63

31 + 32

20 + 21 + 22

After challenging our brains in Math, we challenged our brains with cursive writing, scissors and glue in Français! The activity we completed in class today is an extension "craft-ivity" for the Dia de los muertos article study we did in class last week. We are making our own unique "Day of the Dead" skeletons!

Step 1 - Fold a paper in half and write our first name in cursive letters.
Step 2 - Cut around our letters WITHOUT cutting through the bottom fold! (This will become the rib cage of our skeletons).

Step 3 - Create a backdrop for our skeletons with black  and coloured paper.
Step 4 - Trace hands and a face and glue all the pieces onto the backdrop.

Step 5 - Give your skeleton some personality! Add a face, jewels and other accessories!
Step 6 - Et voilà! Your very own skeleton friend! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Pizza lunch! - Tomorrow
*Casse croute will be closed.
(Please note: only students who pre-ordered pizza will receive pizza. There are no same-day purchases).

2. Calcul Mental Section B - Friday

3. Journée des chevaliers - Friday
*Wear your Chevaliers gear or school colours (grey, black, white, green) on Friday to show your school spirit!

4. Scholastic Orders due Monday, December 2 to ensure delivery before Christmas.
(Visit Scholatic.ca online for full access to all the book titles. Additional paper flyers can be sent home on request).

5. CFOO #4 - Les opinions - Tuesday, December 3.

A Math Question to Try!

Saturday morning, Jack has a soccer game that starts at 8:30 a.m. It takes him a third of an hour to get ready, 4 minutes to make his bed, 13 minutes to eat breakfast, and 18 minutes to ride his bicycle to the soccer field. If he has to be at the field 25 minutes before the game starts, what time does he have to wake up?

 

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Agenda items:

1. Practice writing your first name in cursive writing.

2. Calcul Mental Section A - tomorrow

3. Pizza lunch! - Thursday, November 28
Orders accepted in homeroom on Wednesday, November 27 a.m.
$2 a slice. (Cheese and pepperoni and cheese).

4. Scholastic Orders due Monday, December 2 to ensure delivery before Christmas.
(Visit Scholatic.ca online for full access to all the book titles. Additional paper flyers can be sent home on request).

5. CFOO #4 - Les opinions - Tuesday, December 3.

Monday Agenda Items!

Welcome, Term 2!
We are looking forward to the next few months of learning! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Practice writing your first name in cursive writing.

2. Calcul Mental Section A - mercredi

3. Pizza lunch! - Thursday, November 28
Orders accepted in homeroom on Wednesday, November 27 a.m.
$2 a slice. (Cheese and pepperoni and cheese).

4. Scholastic Orders due Monday, December 2 to ensure delivery before Christmas.
(Visit Scholatic.ca online for full access to all the book titles. Additional paper flyers can be sent home on request).

5. CFOO #4 - Les opinions - Tuesday, December 3.

And that's a wrap on Term 1!

Happy Thursday, learning friends!
We've had a busy week of learning together and are ready for a three-day weekend!

Today in Science we worked in individually or in groups to finish designing our Tomatosphere extension project. We came up with a possible Purpose, then worked to plan a list of materials and a method in order to carry out our experiment. Mme Careen will be assessing us of how detailed and easy to follow our experiment designs are. It's been fun to hear the different, creative ideas students are wanted to test!

In Français, we continued working in our small reading groups to finish our current article study, Dia de los muertos. We worked at the boards to write a draft of our resume before writing a final copy on our sheets. We then worked independently to answer comprehension questions about the article to demonstrate our understanding.
We will be following up our article-study with a fun activity in class next week. We will need to write our name in cursive for this activity, so some practice this weekend might be in order! :)

Working in our groups to complete "Prédire, " "Questionner" and "Clarifier."

Working at the whiteboard to write the résumés for our text.

Here are our résumés!

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Agenda items:

1. Practice writing your first name in cursive writing.

2. Pizza lunch! - Thursday, November 28
Orders accepted in homeroom on Wednesday, November 27 a.m.
$2 a slice. (Cheese and pepperoni and cheese).

3. Scholastic Orders due Monday, December 2 to ensure delivery before Christmas.
(Visit Scholatic.ca online for full access to all the book titles. Additional paper flyers can be sent home on request).

Wednesday Agenda Items

Happy Wednesday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on.
1 more day to show our best learning before report cards!

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Agenda

1. Tomatosphère graph and questions  - now overdue
* Any students who are not finished should pop in over the noon hour or be coming home with their Science duotangs to finish up their work no later than Thursday of this week.

2. Science Design Process - Thursday
* We have started our short design process activity. We will are working either independently or with a partner of their choice to design a Tomatosphere follow-up experiment using the plants we've grown in class. This will be a 'theoretical experiment' - meaning students will not have to carry out the experiment itself, just create the plan (purpose, hypothesis, materials and method) for the experiment.
Students will have one final work block tomorrow to plan and write the steps of their experiment.

3. Coming soon : Pizza lunch!
When: Thursday, November 28
When to order: In homeroom Wednesday, November 27 a.m.
$2 a slice. (Cheese and pepperoni and cheese).
Yum!

Thanks for a great evening of learning!

See you tonight!

Happy Tuesday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on.
2 more days to show our best learning before report cards!

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Agenda

1. Tomatosphère graph and questions  - now overdue
* Any students who are not finished should pop in over the noon hour or be coming home with their Science duotangs to finish up their work no later than Thursday of this week.

2. Science Design Process - Thursday
* We have started our short design process activity. We will are working either independently or with a partner of their choice to design a Tomatosphere follow-up experiment using the plants we've grown in class. This will be a 'theoretical experiment' - meaning students will not have to carry out the experiment itself, just create the plan (purpose, hypothesis, materials and method) for the experiment.
We will have three periods this week to research, plan and write the steps of their experiment.

3. Student Conferences - Tuesday evening (4:30 - 7:30)
*No appointment needed. Please drop by anytime and stay for as little or as long as you'd like.
Looking forward to seeing you then! *

All set up and ready to go!

Monday!

Happy Monday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on.
3 more days to show our best learning before report cards!

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Agenda

1. Good copy of "les buts" - now overdue
* Today, using the iPads, students started creating the visual "inspiration board" to go along with their written text. Students need to have the good copy of their text written before beginning this next step. We will have one final working period in class tomorrow (Tuesday) to finish the visual component of our work. Our goal is to have our work posted in time for conferences tomorrow evening.

2. Tomatosphère graph and questions  - now overdue
* Any students who are not finished should pop in over the noon hour or be coming home with their Science duotangs to finish up their work no later than Thursday of this week.

3. Science Design Process - Thursday
* We have started our short design process activity. We will are working either independently or with a partner of their choice to design a Tomatosphere follow-up experiment using the plants we've grown in class. This will be a 'theoretical experiment' - meaning students will not have to carry out the experiment itself, just create the plan (purpose, hypothesis, materials and method) for the experiment.
We will have three periods this week to research, plan and write the steps of their experiment.

4. Student Conferences - Tuesday evening (4:30 - 7:30)
*No appointment needed. Please drop by anytime and stay for as little or as long as you'd like.
Looking forward to seeing you then! *

Have a great week! :)

Friday Agenda Items

Happy Friday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on.
4 more days to show our best learning before report cards!

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Agenda

1. Good copy of "les buts" - now overdue
* Today, using the iPads, students started creating the visual "inspiration board" to go along with their written text. Students need to have the good copy of their text written before beginning this next step. Any students who were not ready to use an iPad today are encouraged to complete their good copy over the week to ensure they have a full working period on Monday to complete their board.

2. Tomatosphère graph and questions  - Monday
* Students had one last work period this morning to finish both their graphs and questions. Any students who are not finished should be coming home with their Science duotangs this weekend.

3. Science "Thinking" homework - Monday
* We will be starting a short design process activity in class on Monday. Students will be working either independently or with a partner of their choice to design a Tomatosphere follow-up experiment using the plants we've grown in class. This will be a 'theoretical experiment' - meaning students will not have to carry out the experiment itself, just create the plan (purpose, hypothesis, materials and method) for the experiment.
Over the weekend, students should consider with whom they would like to work and start brainstorming different experiment ideas they would like to test.
They will have four work periods next week to research, plan and write the steps of their experiment, so any 'thinking' they do this weekend will certainly help them be on task in class next week.

4. Student Conferences - Tuesday evening (4:30 - 7:30)
*No appointment needed. Please drop by anytime and stay for as little or as long as you'd like.
Looking forward to seeing you then! *

Have a great weekend! :)

Thursday Agenda Items

Happy Thursday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on!
5 more days to show our best learning before report cards!
Please read through the agenda items to see what is coming up this week.

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Agenda

1. CFOO #3 - Recherche - Tomorrow (Friday)

2. Calcul mental assessment  - tomorrow (Friday)

3. Good copy of "les buts" - tomorrow (Friday)

4. Tomatosphère graph and questions  - Monday
* Students will receive one more block of work time tomorrow in class to finish the above-named items. Students who require more time to finish up will be asked to come in over the noon hour or to work at home over the weekend to ensure they are meeting task deadlines.

Wednesday Agenda Items

Happy Wednesday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on!
6 more days to show our best learning before report cards!
Please read through the agenda items to see what is coming up this week.

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Agenda

1. Math assessment (factors and multiples) - Tomorrow (Thursday)

2. CFOO #3 - Recherche - Friday, November 15

4. Good copy of "les buts" - Friday 

5. Tomatosphère graph and Suresh questions  - Friday
* Students were given one full period each for the above-named items.
Many are finished and some are close. We will try our best to build in more work time in class over tomorrow and Friday, but students who require more time to finish up are encouraged to come in over the noon hour or to work at home to ensure they are meeting task deadlines.

Tuesday - Lots of Agenda Items!

Happy Tuesday!
The end of Term 1 countdown is on!
7 more days to show our best learning before report cards!
Please read through the agenda items to see what is coming up this week.

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Agenda

1. Calcul mental Section B - tomorrow (Wednesday)

2. Arbre de facteurs booklet - tomorrow (Wednesday)

** Students had 40 minutes of work time this morning to complete tasks 1 and 2, which is plenty of time to finish up if class time was used effectively.

3. Good copy of "les buts" - Friday 
*IPads have finally arrived (yay!), so we will be ready to create our inspiration boards to go along with our goals later this week. Our good copies must be finished (meaning our drafts have been corrected and checked by Mme) before we will have access to an iPad for the next step.

We will have limited time in class this week, but working at home or with Mme over the lunch hour is strongly encouraged for those students who feel they may need additional time to complete their texts.

4. Math assessment (factors and multiples) - Thursday, November 14.
We will be reviewing and practicing these concepts together in class one last time tomorrow, but at-home practice is encouraged if students are still unsure of the concepts being tested.

5. CFOO #3 - Recherche - Friday, November 15

Looking forward to a great, busy week! :)

Lest We Forget

Together as a school community we gathered to honour those who fought for our freedom.

After the ceremony, we took time to reflect independently about the assembly, about 

what Remembrance Day means to us and what we are thankful for.

-  I'm very sorry for everyone who lost a family member because of wars. I hope everyone that died in a war is resting peacefully.

- I felt sad for the people that list their lives fighting for us.

- Je veux remercier tous les soldats qui ont bataillé ou qui bataillent présentement pour la paix. Si on n'avait pas ces personnes qui ont bataillé pour ous, on n'aurait pas de paix, il y aurait juste de la guerre.

-I liked when I put the candle on the cross. I liked the songs from the band and choir.

-I remember a picture of my great Grandpa with his military uniform on.

- Ce jour de reconnaissance me fait sentir vraiment chanceuse d'être ici et qu'il y a les personnes qui nous protégent; elles sont les bonnes personnes du monde.

- J'ai aimé la personne qui a joué la cornemuse.

- I think of my great uncle who was in the army. My Grandma keeps his helmet on top of a bookshelf with a bunch of things with great stories. The helmet has a dent in it from a bullet.

- I thank my great Grandpa for going to battle for freedom and peace.

- Merci à les personnes qui ont sauvé tout le monde. Merci à mon grandpère qui a sauvé moi et ma famille.

- I am thankful for the teddy bear I got after getting a heart transplant.

- I liked the song from choral.

- Je suis triste parce que les personnes sont mortes dans les guerres.

- I'm thankful that nobody I know was in the war or was hurt in the war.

- Merci les soldats pour la paix et la liberté.

- I feel sad right now because of the sacrifice the brave soldiers of our country made for our freedom.

- I was touched by the little song and showing the pictures because that can stay with you forever if you have a good heart and a remembering brain for those who are not with us anymore.

- My great-great Grandpa, John Berg, had a revolver in the war and we still have it today.

- Today the ceremony was very well done and it made me remember people who fought for everyone so that people could be alive. It also made me remember that people have lost loved ones because they were keeping us safe.

- I'm thankful for the soldiers who fought for our country.

Thursday Agenda Items

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Agenda

1. Calcul mental Section A - Tuesday
(We did not have time to correct in class today so we will do so on Tuesday)

2. Work on rough draft and good copy of  "les buts" at home

*IPads have finally arrived (yay!), so we will be ready to create our inspiration boards to go along with our goals next week. Our good copies must be finished (meaning our drafts have been corrected and checked by Mme) before we will have access to an iPad for the next step.
We will have time in class next week, but working at home is strongly encouraged for those students who feel they may need additional time to complete their texts.

3. Math assessment (factors and multiples) - Thursday, November 14.
We will be reviewing and practicing these concepts together in class next week, but at-home practice is encouraged if students are still unsure of the concepts being tested. Mme Careen will also be in her room Tuesday and Wednesday at lunch for any students wanting to review together.

4. CFOO #3 - Recherche - Friday, November 15

5. Please see separate post (coming soon!) for our reflections about our Remembrance Day Service this morning.

Have a great 4-day weekend.
Be sure to take some time to read! :)

Wednesday Agenda Items

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Agenda

1. Calcul mental Section A - tomorrow (Thursday)

2. Work on rough draft "les buts" at home

(Rough draft and first revision with Mme should already be done. Students who require more time to complete their drafts are encouraged to work at home or tomorrow at lunch with Mme).

3. Our school Remembrance Day Assembly will be Thursday, November 7 at 10:30am in our
school gym. All are welcome.
* Poppies will be distributed in homeroom tomorrow morning before the assembly. Monetary donations are gratefully accepted. Thank you. *

4. CFOO #3 - Recherche - Friday, November 15

Tuesday Agenda Items

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Agenda

1. Calcul mental Section A - Thursday

2. Work on rough draft "les buts" at home

(Rough draft and first revision with Mme should already be done. Students who require more time to complete their drafts are encouraged to work at home or tomorrow at lunch with Mme).

3. Our school Remembrance Day Service will be Thursday, November 7 at 10:30am in our
school gym. All are welcome.

O Factor Tree, O Factor Tree...

Happy Monday, learning friends!

November is here and we're ready for the hard work we need to do over the next three weeks 

to finish off strong in Term 1.

In Math, after our mental math assessment, we jumped in to learning about breaking down numbers into their smallest units. Did you know every number can be represented as a product of prime numbers?! It's true!

To help us with this process, we're using a 'factor tree' strategy.

Take a look:

We start with the number at the top (like the 'star' of a tree) and then work our way down until we have a series of prime numbers at the bottom. We can write these numbers in a multiplication equation, and when we check our answer, the product matches the number at the top! Cool!

Please ask me about factor trees and how Mme used them to do a bit of 'Math Magic' today in class.

Math is SO fun! :)

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Agenda

1. Factors and multiples sheet - finished for tomorrow, please

(Many students have already finished but some require more time).

2. Work on rough draft "les buts" at home

(Rough draft and first revision with Mme should already be done. Students who require more time to complete their drafts are encouraged to work at home or tomorrow at lunch with Mme).

Friday Agenda Items

Thanks for a great spirit week!
Have a great weekend! :)

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Agenda

1. Calcul mental assessment (Coupe et colle les zeros) - Monday