Bonjour!  There will no longer be any homework.

All I ask is that the children continue to read nighly.  If there is any unfinished work in school, I will be sending it home to finish, but this should decrease over the next week.

The green homework books can be kept at home along with any finished work that I send.

Merci beaucoup!

Please note: From now until the end of the school year we will not have any weekly written homework however; unfinished work will be sent home regularly to be finished at night. Please check for this nightly

Reading:  This week’s baggie book is “ Des câlins”

Our caterpillars are growing larger and larger each day and some are prepared to make their chrysalis.

Vocab:  A new vocabulary sheet with the parts of the body is in the green duotang to practice.

This week, please practice the following words from the envelope:

Math:.

We have begun our last math unit for this year on adding and subtracting to 20. Help your child practice adding using the “COUTING ON” strategy. This means for 9+6= you keep the larger number in your head and count on 6 more with the help of their fingers; 9…10,11,12,13,14,15. 9+6=15.

As well, for subtraction please help your child practice using the “COUNTING BACK” strategy. This means for 10-5= you start at 10 and count back 5 numbers, so 10 -> 9,8,7,6,5. 10-5=5

Have an excellent week!

Just a few reminders:

☻Tomorrow we will go to the Fluvarium. Please ensure your child dresses for the weather because  part of the session will be outdoors.

☻ We will have a visual literacy day on Friday. A sheet went home late last week explaining a visual show and tell.

☻ Please send in an empty cd case by Thursday of this week with your child’s name on a piece of paper inside the case. Not a jewel (thin) cd case, a regular cd case. If you do not have one, they can be purchased at the dollar store. We will be doing a spring art activity with this. MERCI J

This week, please practice the following words from the envelope:

Math:.

Please have your child practice the names of each of the solids. A sheet will go home tomorrow identifying the French name for the solids and shapes. As well, they should practice describing the solids and shapes using words like pointu (pointy), courbe (curved), long (long), haut (high), mince (thin) , plat (flat) and large (large).

Have a great week!

Bonjour! 

We have caterpillars (les chenilles) in our classroom!  We will watch them grow (grandir), molt (changer la peau), make a chrysalis (faire une chrysalide) and transform into butterflies (se transformer en papillons)!

Vocab:  Our vocabulary sheet this week shows the words for parts of both the caterpillar and butterfly.  On the back of the sheet is an explanation of the life cycle of the butterfly.  While reviewing the vocab, please also have your child read (as best they can) the explanation on the back.

The words to focus on from the brown envelope are below.  I suggest using words in the envelope to piece together sentences.  I have noticed that they like to make “silly” sentences and this may also make the activity more fun.

Writing:  There is no written homework for this week.

Math: We are starting geometry.  Have a look around your house and maybe in the neighbourhood while driving for things in the shape of a cube, sphere, cone, cylinder and rectangular prism. 

Have a wonderful week and enjoy the long weekend!

Bonjour!

• Montre et raconte (show and tell) is Friday.
• Our gym schedule has been switched and we have 2 gym periods tomorrow (day 5) and none on Wednesday (day 6).  This is just for this week.
• Please note that written homework should be completed as much as possible by the students.  If your child is having great difficulty and needs your constant attention and help, please let me know.

Reading:  Our class book this week is “Ma plante grandit.”  It is taken from one of our grade one texts and is about growing plants in the classroom (we are growing bean plants in our classroom!)

Vocab:  The new sheet of vocabulary in the green homework folder this week is about emotions. 

The words in the brown envelope to practice are:

Writing:  Your child needs to write 3 sentences this week using the words from the brown envelope as well as the new vocab sheet. 

Math:.

We have now moved on to numbers to 100. We will spend the next few days counting to 50 and 100 in various ways. I am sending home a hundred chart (grille de 100) to use to practice counting in the following ways:

-        recognize random numbers between 1 and 50.

-        Count to 50 forward and backwards

-        Count to 50 by 5’s

-        Count to 100 by 10’s

-        Count to 20 by 2’s

Reading:  This week’s class book is “Dans la forêt” all about things in the forest.

Vocabulary:  We are continuing to work with the “Spring” vocabulary sheet from last week.

The words we are focusing on from the brown envelope are

Writing:  In the green homework folder is a writing sheet just like last week’s.  Students should use words from the “Spring” vocab sheet as well as the words from the list above to write 2 sentences.  Then choose one sentence to illustrate on the bottom of the sheet.  Then color.

We also have A SECOND sheet where students decide which word to write in the blank:  either “et” (and) or “est” (is).

Ex:  Le chien est gentil.  (The dog is nice).   

Have a great week!

Bonjour!

Reading:  Our baggie book this week is “Une graine pousse.”  This book is about the life cycle of a plant.  We are learning about this beginning this week.

Vocabulary:  This week’s vocabulary sheet contains spring words (and some to do with plants).

The words to focus on in the brown envelope are:

Writing: There is also a writing sheet in the green homework folder to go with these words.  The students need to write two sentences using both words from the list above and from the spring vocab sheet.  Then choose one sentence to illustrate on the bottom of the page and color.

Math:  Please see the green memo regarding our new math unit!

Have a wonderful week!

Bonjour! 

Thursday is Earth Day!  Here is a website with fun activities for kids:  http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/kids_home.cfm

Vocabulary:  This week we are still working on the dental health vocab that was put in the homework folder last week.

Reading:  The baggie book this week is “Les quatre saisons.”  The concept of months and seasons can still be difficult for grade ones to comprehend which is why we are focusing on this book this week.

This week’s focus vocab is below.  Have your child make up sentences using some of these words.  This can be written or oral.

Merci beaucoup! Have a great week!

Welcome back!  I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! 

This week:   Book orders are going home today and are due back on FRIDAY APRIL 16th.

Also, we are going to be doing an activity which involves brushing our teeth in school.  On Friday, could you please send in a tooth brush for your child to use.  It will be brought home again that day.  If it is not possible, I will have some (unused) extras on hand.

Reading:  This week’s reader is “La dent de Marcel”- a book about a little boy who lost his tooth at school.  This book is different because the students are the illustrators.  Your child can work on his/her illustrations at home but the work DOES NOT need to be completed at home…I will be giving class time for this as well.

Vocab:  The vocabulary sheet this week contains words regarding dental health.  We will be focusing on these words for the next two weeks (April is dental health month).

Sight words:  From the brown envelope this week, please focus on the following words:

Math:  We are continuing with measurement and we are learning to use the following terms in describing things around us:  long (long) - court (short), large (thick)-mince (thin), lourd (heavy)-léger (light).  Please work with your child describing things in your home using these terms.  Ex: the plate is heavier than the spoon, my bed is longer than my desk, etc.

Have a great week!

This week:

1) Thursday is the last day of school before Easter.  Thursday is a full day of school.

2)  Project: We are asking students to make an Easter hat to wear to school on Thursday.  This can be a hat from home that is decorated for Easter however your child wants…the more creative the better!  Please don’t go to any great expense to buy decorations, you can use whatever you have at home i.e. construction paper, cotton balls, pipe cleaners, straws, etc.  One thing to keep in mind is that the hat should not get in the way of your child completing his/her work that day.

3) Locker clean-out:  this week we will be cleaning out lockers and changes of clothing will be sent home.  Please look through the bag to make sure there is a full change of clothes in it that fits your child.  Please send a change of clothes back after Easter.

Reading:  This week’s reader is about Easter: “Le marche de Paques”

Vocab:  The new page of theme words was put in the green homework folders on Friday (Easter words).

Math:  We have just started introducing measurement and are focusing on how LONG and how TALL various objects are.  Please try to question your child as to how tall and how long things are around the house and even comparing for example, how tall the chair is compared to how tall the fridge is i.e. which is taller?  Which is shorter? etc.

Have a great week and a great Easter holiday!

This week:

1)      Skating on Friday: this is our last session but I do NOT think the canteen will be open.

2)    Friday is also fruit Friday

3)    Our concert is Wednesday night:  the children are SO EXCITED!  They have been working very hard.  If homework does not get done on Wednesday night, I won’t be heartbrokenJ

Reading:  This week’s baggie book is “Les légumes.”  Your child will probably find this book very easy but it is important to expose them to the vocabulary nonetheless.  This is why we also bring home baggie books at your child’s specific reading level.

Vocab:  The vocab for this week are vegetable words. Some translations are as follows: 

Une courgette = zucchini

Une aubergine = eggplant

Le chou = cabbage

Le chou-fleur = cauliflower

Fève = green bean

NEW ITEM!

I have sent home a brown envelope with all of our sight words (the ones that are on the sheet sent home earlier in the year).  These words may need to be cut up.  Please keep them in the envelope and AT HOME…they do not need to come back to school.

This week, please practice the following words from the envelope:

Also, please have your child make up sentences orally using these words.

Have an excellent week!

This week:

1)      No school for students Thursday afternoon, March 18 and all day Friday, March 19

2)    Skating Wednesday afternoon, March 17

3)    For St. Patrick’s Day, Wednesday, students are encouraged to wear something green

4)    Parent teacher interviews:  As with last term, the interviews are 10 minutes long.  The time slots are 15 minutes so that I do not run over.  If more than 10 minutes are required, we will make an appointment to continue our discussion at a later date.

Reading:  This week’s reader is “Les fruits.”  The words of the book are also a song, so don’t be surprised if your child tries to sing the bookJ

Vocab:  The vocab sheet for this week corresponds with the book:  all fruit words

Writing:  No written work this week because it is a short week.

Math:  Show your child 8 small objects.  Ask her/him to turn around while you hide some of the objects.  Ask: “Tell me how many objects are missing.”  Continue this way, taking turns to be the one hiding the objects.

Have a wonderful week!

Bonjour!

1)      Skating this week is on Wednesday afternoon.

2)    Friday is Fruit Friday (again)

3)    Friday is also recycling day:  our recycling days have contributed to purchasing a Smart Board for our classroom.  Our class looks forward to showing you the many things we are learning about the Smart Board.  Thank you for all your effort!

4)  This week is also education week and the theme is “My Place.”  The theme encourages everyone to think about how we contribute to and make a difference within our home, community, province,  country and our world.  Pease, solidarity, democracy and the environment are the core values on which the theme is based.

The grade ones are focusing on ways individuals can make a difference in our community.

Wednesday:  “Rainbow Day” – Wear as many different colours as you can to represent the diversity of our community, our country and our world!

Thursday:  “Occupation Day” – What do you want to be when you grow up?  Come to school dressed up and show everyone!

Reading:  Our little book this week is “A table.” This book is about sitting down and eating a meal, the things the main character eats and what goes on during dinner. 

Vocabulary: Please continue to review the last 2 vocabulary pages. 

Writing:  Your child is asked to write 2 sentences using action words (from the last vocab sheet).  Then illustrate the sentences in the space provided.  PLEASE COLOUR.  The writing sheet is in the green homework folder.

If your child is bringing home work to be finished, it is because either they were not here or more than enough time was given in class to complete the work. 

Have a great week and hope to see you at skating!

March is nutrition month and in recognition we are encouraging students to bring fruit for snack on Fridays during this month (“Fruit Fridays”).

*Also, we are going to be doing some activities using pictures of groceries/food. If you have any extra flyers or pictures that can be cut up around, could you please send them in? (Thank you!!!)

 Reading:  Our baggie book this week is “Souricette a faim.”  This book has names of some fruits and vegetables as well as number words.

Vocabulary:  Our vocab sheet this week is action words. Practice getting your child to make up sentences orally or written using the action words.

This week: Book fair on Tuesday at 8:55 and is open to families on Saturday. I will not be sending home book orders this month due to the book fair.

No skating this week.

Math: 

Try showing a quantity of objects (blocks, noodles,etc.) and have your child count how many there are. Then close their eyes and cover up some of the objects. When your child opens their eyes, have them figure out how many objects you are covering up using subtraction. Then write an equation to show what you just did.

Example: Show 8 noodles. Cover up 3. Ask: “How many noodles am I hiding?” Child: 5. “How do you know?” 8 - ___ = 3

I know that if I start with 8 and only have 3 left, then 5 must be covered up.

Our first skating session is on Friday at the CBS Arena.  Parents are encouraged to come.  If you will be taking your child from the arena, I need a note in the morning that day.  This is to avoid confusion and to ensure your child brings their school bag to the arena.

Before you leave the arena with your child, please check in with me to let me know you are leaving. 

We also ask that you stay with our class in the same dressing room to get skates on/off.  When we get to the arena, there will be a change room with my name on it.  Please go to this room. 

Homework:

Reading:  The class book this week is “La saint-valentin des animaux.”  This is a little more challenging than last week’s book.

Please continue to practice the sheet of vocab from last week.

Math:  A yellow math activity sheet went home today.  This is to go in the green homework folder.  The instructions are on the sheet.

Have a great week!

Reading:  The class book for this week is “Il y a des coeurs partout” which coincides with our focus on Valentine’s Day.

I have noticed on the reading logs that many people are writing down vocab sheets.  Please record baggie books only.  Also, if your child is bringing home books that they have already read, please let me know, as this should not be happening.

There is also a new vocab sheet with Valentine’s words and a class list in the green homework folder.  Please practice the new vocab words this week.

Math:

The homework this week is to get started on the 100th day of school poster. Students are asked to create a 3-D poster using 100 objects. Use cutouts, stickers, drawings, macaroni, pictures, etc. and glue them to half a sheet of Bristol board. Group the objects by 2’s, 5’s or 10’s for easier counting and label the groups as well using numbers. The children will start presenting their projects to the class on Monday, Feb.15th and Tuesday, Feb.16th so please return the poster to school then. Merci!

FINALLY, please help your child to make a Valentine’s mailbox this week.  This can be a tissue box or shoe box decorated however your child wants, with a slot to put Valentines in.  Please have this in for our Valentine’s exchange on Friday, February 12.

We will be exchanging Valentines during the afternoon of February 12.  We also have gym that afternoon.  On this day, students are encouraged (not obligated) to wear red or pink to celebrate.  There is no need to send a party snack because our afternoon is interrupted by the gym schedule and we won’t have time to eat as well.

Have a great week!

Bonjour!

Our first skating session is coming up.  All parents/grandparents are welcome!  The more helping hands, the better.

Reading:

Our class reader this week is “Le manchot Empereur.”  This book is all about Emperor penguins.  We will also be learning about this type of penguin in class this week.

Just a reminder about the other baggie books:  your child should be bringing home a new book each night. 

It is now time for reading evaluations as we are soon coming to another report card season.  When your child has been assessed, I will be in touch with you either by phone or email (I’m sure everyone is getting curious to know how your child is doing).  So its not necessarily a bad thing if you get a phone call!  J

Writing:

For this week, I have a scrambled sentences sheet, just like last week.  Your child will need to cut out the pieces of each sentence and glue them onto the sheet provided in the right order.  There are 4 separate sentences all about penguins. 

Example:  Ils       colonie.      forment     une

This sentence should be put in the following order:  Ils forment une colonie. 

Emphasize that the word starting with an upper-case letter is always first and the last word is the one with the period.

The instructions will also be on one of the worksheets.  Some children are forgot to illustrate and color a picture.  This also needs to be finished this week.

Math: 

Ask your child to think of some objects at home that are doubles.  We have been learning about doubles i.e. 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, etc.

Bonjour!

From what I have seen so far, the new writing component of the homework this week seems to have gone well!  Please feel free to give me some feedback if you have the time.

We missed our last Art Smarts session on the 21^st due to the snow day, so we will do our best to have a make up session soon.

We are soon going to be starting our skating sessions!  When the dates are made available to us, a note will go to you.

Reading:

Our class reader this week is “Le manchot Adélie.”  This book is all about Adelie penguins.  We will also be learning about this type of penguin in class this week.

Just a reminder about the other baggie books:  your child should be bringing home a new book each night. 

It is now time for reading evaluations as we are soon coming to another report card season.  When your child has been assessed, I will be in touch with you either by phone or email (I’m sure everyone is getting curious to know how your child is doing).  So its not necessarily a bad thing if you get a phone call!  J

Writing:

For this week, I have a scrambled sentences sheet.  Your child will need to cut out the pieces of each sentence and glue them onto the sheet provided in the right order.  There are 4 separate sentences all about penguins. 

Example:  Ils       colonie.      forment     une

This sentence should be put in the following order:  Ils forment une colonie. 

Emphasize that the word starting with an upper-case letter is always first and the last word is the one with the period.

The instructions will also be on one of the worksheets.

Math: 

Make up some story problems (word problems)  to tell your child and ask he/she to find out the answer. 

For example:  “There are three spoons on the table.  We need one more spoon.  Tell me how many spoons we need all together.”

Your child should answer “3 plus 1 equals 4.  We need 4 spoons all together.”

Then write:  3+1=4

Reading:

This week’s reader is “Je connais les manchots.”  This book should contain many familiar words. 

If you find your child is memorizing this book, try reading the pages out of order.  You could also go through the book picking random words for your child to read.  If he/she is experiencing difficulty with these activities after a couple of days, please let me know.

Also, we are progressing with our individual reading program.  Your child should be changing his/her baggie book daily (not the weekly reader).  Please feel free to let me know if your child is having difficulty with their books or even if you feel the books are too easy.  Starting today, I will be assessing individual reading ability, which takes quite a bit of time.  So your feedback from home is always appreciated.

 Writing:

This week there is a writing activity in the green homework folder (instructions are also on the sheet).  Your child needs to use the winter vocabulary in the homework folder to write a sentence on his/her own.  I have provided some examples.  If your child is capable of writing more than one sentence, they are welcome to do so.

If your child has extreme difficulty with this activity, please let me know.

I also ask that your child illustrate one of the sentences on bottom of the page and color.

Math: 

We have been making up addition stories about dinosaures.  Ask your child to tell you an addition story about dinosaures that he/she made up.  Use small objects like buttons or paper clips to make up another addition story together.

Example:  2 dinosaures were drinking water.  2 more dinosaures came to join them.  How many dinosaures were at the water hole together?

Homework activities:

We are finished with the sound booklet - “Plus de pratique pour les sons.”  If you would like to keep this booklet at home over the week for review, you are encouraged to do so.

Please return it to school with a little note indicating “J’ai fini” when you are finished with it. Merci!

1.    Language:

We will continue this week with the vocab list of winter words. As well, there is a new vocab sheet with words about penguins (les manchots).  We will be reviewing these and the winter words regularly during class time over the month of January. The students have now begun to write simple sentences on their own. We are using our winter words to help us with this.

We have begun to gradually introduce our high frequency word list to the students. A copy of this list was sent home on Curriculum night. Your child may already be able to read and/or recognize words from this list. I will send home an additional copy later this month. If you do have your copy, it may be a good idea to ask your child from time to time to read to you the words that they can recognize.

2.    Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “1,2,3 les manchots jouent.”  We will practice reading this book every day in class as well as at home.  It is very important for your child to bring the “J’aime lire” folder to school every day with the 2 baggie books in it.  He/she will bring the folder home each night. It is important to remember that your child may not be able to read all the words in this petit livre independently. There are some penguin  vocab words they will know as well as some high frequency words.

In addition to the daily reader (1,2,3 les manchots jouent) the students will now get to choose a new “baggie book” each morning when they arrive at school. This book is theirs to choose based on what interests them. They should attempt to read these books each evening and it may be recorded in their J’aime Lire folder. The books that they choose should be at or near their current reading level.  Many of the children like to choose the same book time and time again. While it is good for them to develop a sense of confidence with their reading, please drop me a line and let me know if a particular title seems to be coming home quite often. Sometimes a student will learn to memorize a book, as opposed to attempt new words with the reading strategies that they have. If your child is consistently stuggling with the books that they are choosing, please also let me know so that we can choose a book that is more appropriate for them.

Here are some ideas on how you can “read” your baggie book each evening:

Weekly Baggie Book

1_st time - Picture Walk - only look at the pictures and have your child try to predict what will happen using the French vocab that they know.

2_nd time - Point / Read familiar words

                  Find the word with the sound…….

3_rd time - Read story

4_th Time – Read story without picture clues

3.    Math:

This week we are getting into our next unit in Mathematics. In this unit, your child will be learning about addition and subtraction to 12. The Learning Goals for this unit are to:

* learn more about the meaning of numbers

* recognize that addition involves joining groups and that subtraction involves taking one group away from another.

* use counters and other real-life materials to help solve simple number problems.

* practise using addition and subtraction to write and solve number problems.

* describe the thinking involved in solving simple number problems.

* use mental-math strategies to add and subtract.

     This week you can begin to reinforce this activity at home by practicing to make number combinations to 5 and then to 10. Choose 5 or 10 items (ex: paper clips, pennies etc.) and place them on a table. Have your child move the items around to find all the combinations they can make. ex: For 5,  2+3; 4+1; 5+0; 3+2; 1+4; 0+5. Have your child record their combinations on a sheet of paper.

Bonjour!  Happy New Year!

For this week, the homework will consist of:

1)  Reading:  the new class book is “Mon bonhomme de neige.”  New individual readers will go home next week.

2)  Vocab:  new vocabulary sheet in the green folder - winter words

New calendar will be ready tomorrow (Tuesday) but so you know, we have gym tomorrow.

Have a great week!

Bonjour! 

For this week, please only focus on reading and the sounds booklet.  Don’t worry about anything else because its so close to Christmas…spend whatever time you can relaxing with family!

Petit livre:  “Le premier noël”

Plus de pratique pour les sons:  pages 5 & 6

Notes this week: 

*We will not have music class on Tuesday due to the Grade 3 concert practice.

*Please ensure your child is dressed appropriately for outdoor play.

Language Arts:

Reading:  Our petit livre this week is “Je décore mon arbre de noël.”  This book is NOT for coloring. 

Vocab:  Please continue to practice the vocab sheet with Christmas words.

Plus de pratique pour les sons:  Please review pages 3 and 4 this week. 

There is no Math or written homework this week as I’m sure many families are very busy with Christmas activities and shovelling;)

I hope you all have a great week!

Report cards were sent home today.  If for some reason your child’s report didn’t make it home, please let me know ASAP.

I have not received all the November book orders yet but I had to send home the December one today because the order must be placed Wednesday to ensure delivery before Christmas holidays.

1. Language:

Please review the vocabulary sheet for “noël” with your child.  

We are learning about the sound “OU” this week:  pronounced “ew” (well, close to thatJ).

Phonics:

We have a new sound booklet this week - “Plus de pratique pour les sons.”  This booklet blends two consonants with a vowel.  Please practice the first two pages (pg 1 and 2) from this booklet with your child this week.  As an additional practice for your child at home, you may use the syllables from this booklet in a dictée at home.  Have your child print the syllable you read to them.  You may want to do this once or twice a week.  The words we will be using in our upcoming dictées will be taken from this booklet. 

You may choose to keep the “Je lis” booklet at home if your child needs to continue practicing this as review.  Please return it to school with a little note saying “Jai fini” when you are finished with it.  Merci!

2.Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “Les couleurs de noël.”  Please have your child color the items on the page that need to be colored.  For example, on page one, it says “Noël c’est les bottes noires de père noël” so Santa’s boots need to be colored black.    

3. Math:

We are moving on to numbers between 11 and 20.  It is important that your child recognize and identify these numbers easily now.  Make flash cards with each number and play a game finding each number, or flip the card quickly and have your child name the number.  You can also do a practice dictée with the numbers where your child writes down the number they hear. 

11 onze,  12 douze, 13 treize, 14 quatorze, 15 quinze, 16 seize, 17 dix-sept, 18 dix-huit, 19 dix-neuf, 20 vingt

1. Language:

Please review the vocabulary sheet for la nuit this week. 

Our new petit livre this week is “Le rêve de Mathieu.”  On Wednesday, I will send home the words from the book, enlarged.  Please cut these up, and you and your child can use them to re-create some of the sentences from the book.  He/she can also make their own sentences using these words.  The purpose of this activity is to further understand that different words put together make messages.  It will also help with sentence writing.

Phonics:

We are continuing this week in our phonics program with the sound “o” (oh).

Please practice the last two pages  of the “Je lis” sound booklet (pg 7 and 8 ) with your child this week.  As an additional practice for your child at home, you may use the words from this booklet in a dictée at home.  Have your child print the word that you read to them.  You may want to do this once or twice a week.  The words that we use in our dictées at school are currently taken from the Je lis booklet. 

2.Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “Le rêve de Mathieu.”  It contains some nighttime vocabulary words as well as high frequency words that your child should recognize independently.   

3. Math:

Please practice the concept of un de plus (one more) and un de moins (one less) with your child this week. 

Ten frames are being sent home for practice. 

*ex:  use pennies as counters, have your child show you 7 on the 10-frame (grille de 10).  Then ask them to show you one more than 7 and then one less than 7.  Have your child show you how to properly put counters on the 10 frame and how to properly take them off.  We have been practicing this daily at school.  Once you have mastered one more and one less, move on to two more and two less.   

Our Rememberance Day assembly is on Monday morning, Nov. 9.

1. Language:

Vocabulary: 

Please continue to review vocabulary for “La nuit” as well as the days of the week and number words which can be found on a previous vocabulary sheet in the black homework folder. 

Please practice the next two pages  of the “Je lis” sound booklet (pg 5 and 6) with your child this week. You may choose to keep the “aeiou” booklet at home if your child needs to continue practicing this as review. If you need it returned, please just let me know.  When finished, please return it to school with a little note indicating “J’ai fini” .  Merci!

2.Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “Le lit.”  We will practice reading this book every day in class as well as at home. 

3. Math:

Practice counting en français

-by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s

-backwards from 20

-forward starting at random numbers ex: start at 6 rather than 1

-a hundreds (grille de cent) is included in the homework duotang to visually help with counting in different ways

URGENT NOTICE:  If you wish you child to receive the H1N1 vaccine at school, please send in the consent form ASAP.  If you DO NOT want your child to be vaccinated OR if your child has already been vaccinated, please send me a quick note to let me know so the school will not contact you on vaccination day.

Homework activities:

1.      Language:

In the green homework folder, we are starting a new  page of  vocabulary for La nuit (night).  Please have your child practice identifying these objects (en français).  The folder is to be returned EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.

In the green homework folder there is a new activity page.  This activity asks the children to read the words and copy them 2 times. These words highlight the two-letter blended sounds that we have been learning and your child should be able to read them.

We have a new sound booklet “Je lis.”  This book takes the sounds we have been learning and combines them to make words.  Please practice the next two pages (pg 3 and 4) with your child this week. You may choose to keep the “aeiou” booklet at home if your child needs to continue practicing this as review. Please send me an email or a note if you need it returned. Merci!

2.      Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “Que font-ils?.”  We will practice reading this book every day in class as well as at home.  It is very important for your child to bring the “J’aime lire” folder to school every day with the 2 baggie books in it.  He/she will bring the folder home each night. It is important to remember that your child may not be able to read all the words in this petit livre independently. The children are asked not to colour in this booklet as we are practicing recognizing the colour words without the visual of the colours themselves. Merci!

3.  Math:  

The following are some activities you can work on at home to reinforce the math outcomes this week.

a)  Use small objects (ex: pennies, macaroni etc.) Ask your child to show you groups from 11 to 20.

b)  Play a matching game. Have your child match the numeral (ex: 2) with the word (ex: deux) with a picture (ex: two pieces of macaroni). Work on this with all numbers to 20.

This week:

Joyeuse halloween!  A note will go home Wednesday regarding halloween activities for Friday.

Please remember if you need to come into the school building, parents/guardians must get a Visitor’s button from the office first. 

Thank you!!

Homework activities:

1.    Language:

In the green homework folder, we are continuing to practice the page of Halloween vocabulary.  Please have your child practice identifying these objects (en français).  The folder is to be returned EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.

We have a new sound booklet “Je lis.”  This book takes the sounds we have been learning and combines them to make words.  Please practice the first two pages with your child this week.

2.    Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “C’est l’halloween.”  We will practice reading this book every day in class as well as at home.  It is very important for your child to bring the “J’aime lire” folder to school every day with the 2 baggie books in it.  He/she will bring the folder home each night.

3.  Science:  

In science we are learning about the sun and its heating effects.  Here are some experiments that you can try at home:

a)  Put the same amount of water in two plastic containers.  Leave one container in the sun and the other in the shade.  After several minutes, see which container of water is the coldest.  Why is one colder than the other?

b)  On your feet, put on one dark sock and one light sock.  Sit with your feet in the sun for several minutes.  Which foot is colder?  Why?

4.    Math:

Practice “skip counting” by 2’s.  (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, etc.)

Have a spooktacular Halloween!!!

Bonjour!  This week we are learning the sound “é” pronounced “eh”.

This week:

School is closed for students on Friday, October 23 for teacher professional development.  Recycling will be postponed to next week.

Please remember if you need to come into the school building, parents/guardians need to get a Visitor’s button from the office first. 

Thank you!!

Homework activities:

1.    Language:

In the green homework folder, we are continuing to practice the page of Halloween vocabulary.  Please have your child practice identifying these objects (en français).  The folder is to be returned EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.

In the sound booklet, please practice the last two pages with your child this week.  Please also review all the previous pages as we will be beginning our new sound booklet next week.  Your child should now be more comfortable with the sound blends and be able to identify most of them fairly consistently.  The Friday morning classroom “dictée” over the weeks to come will focus on these sound blends from our sound booklets.

2.    Reading:

This week’s little book (petit livre) is “Halloween.”  We will practice reading this book every day in class as well as at home.  It is very important for your child to bring the “J’aime lire” folder to school every day with the 2 baggie books in it.  He/she will bring the folder home each night.

For each night that your child has his/her books, here are some suggested activities:

P     Start by doing a picture walk: “walking” through the book and looking at the pictures, trying to understand what the book is about. 

P     The next time you read, try to find any words with the sound “e” in them. 

P     At this stage it is important for your child to learn to point to words and try to say them based on the picture and beginning sound.  Try to do this on the third night.

P     On the fourth night, try reading the book start to finish. 

3.    Math:

Some suggested activities are as follows:

a.      With your child, collect sets of 11 to 20 objects (for ecample, 12 stuffed animals, 16 envelopes).  Have your child count the objects.  Ask: “How many are there in each set (groupe)?”

b.     Play “I Spy,” giving the number as a clue: “I spy with my little eye, something that has four legs.”  Your child might guess “table” or “chair.”  Switch roles.

Have a great week!!!

Bonjour!  This week we will be reviewing the sounds that we have learned so far: “a”, “i”, “u”.

This week:

1.       Book orders are going home tomorrow and due back Friday. 

2.     Friday is PICTURE DAY.  Please remember to send in your child’s order forms or a note to let me know if you are NOT ordering a package of photos.  Every child will have their picture taken anyway.  Also, we have gym that day but it will be AFTER our pictures are taken.

Please ensure your child brings his/her plastic baggie to school every day.

Homework activities:

1. Language/Phonics:
   1. In the green homework folder, there is a new page of Halloween vocabulary which we are practicing in class.  Please have your child practice identifying these objects (en français).  The folder is to be returned EVERY FRIDAY MORNING and kept for the weekend unless you let me know that you would like to keep it.
   2. In the sound booklet, please practice the next three pages with your child this week. 
2. Reading:  2 books
   1. This week we are no longer using the alphabet books.  We are replacing them with color books that belond to the school.  The level your child has brought home is B2. This will eventually change depending on your child’s reading level (but not just yet). 
   2. We are also still using a class set of books.  This week’s book is “C’est l’automne.”  We will practice reading this book every day in class as well as at home.  It is very important for your child to bring the “J’aime lire” folder to school every day with the baggie books in it.  They will bring the folder home each night.
3. Math:
   1. We are moving on to number concept this week.  A letter was sent home last week explaining the learning goals for this unit. 
   2. Some suggested activities are as follows:

                                                              i.      Use small objects and ask your child to show you groups from 1 to 10.

                         ii. Together, collect several sets of 8 small objects (for example, 8 keys, 8 pieces of pasta).  Ask your child to count the number in each set.  Ask: “How are these sets alike?”  (All have 8.)