January:

Welcome back! Sorry to have let this platform slide. As the school year gets busy, it is easy to forget about posting on the website. It is a goal of mine to post more frequent updates on here.

What's coming up for the grade fives:

• Ski trip (January 21st and 28th)
• Skating (February 4th)

Home reading:

• We have finished our novel study and are going to try a different approach to reading for the next couple of weeks. I am hoping that this will be a chance for them to push themselves to be more independent with their reading. Students will receive a selection of books to read over the week. I will ask them to mark down when and how many times they have read each book. They will write down a short synopsis for fiction stories and three interesting facts for non-fiction stories. To practice their fluency and pronunciation, they will be asked to record themselves reading one of the books and post it to flipgrid. If they do not have a device that is able to record, they are welcome to stay in one day at recess to do it at school.

Music:

• We are finishing up our rhythm unit and moving on to learning boomwhackers and them ukulele.

French:

• We are going to begin working on a narrative writing piece to promote their written skills and to support what they are learning in English. I would like them to begin to transfers the literacy skills that they have been working on to the French language. Story planning will begin this week.

December:

It has been an extremely busy few weeks filled with lots of excitement! I hope that everyone has a restful and fun filled holiday season. See you all in 2020!

November:

27/11/2019

Good Morning!

I have not updated this in a little while, so I wanted to send a quick update on what we are working on in class.

• Science:
  • We have been busy exploring matter and are using hands on experiments to explore properties, states and changes in matter.
• Music:
  • We have just started to learn about rhythm and have been creating songs and beats using our bodies and things around us. During lunch this week we watched some "Stomp" videos on youtube for inspiration on how to make music out of everyday objects.
• French:
  • We are continuing to work on both spoken and written language. Students are becoming less shy to speak to their peers in french, which I am thrilled about! We are close to finishing their first novel story and though it has been challenging for most, it has pushed them in their reading comprehension.

October:

10/09/2019

Good Morning!

Great work on the presentations! I have really enjoyed learning about new things that are of interest to our classmates. Looking forward to hearing the rest tomorrow.

Our novel study was sent home with the grade 5 yesterday. They received a black duotang with four accompanying sheets. This will be their novel study duotang and we will add to it as we make our way through this book together. For the first week they were asked

1. To complete the pre-reading question on the first page " What do you think Mathieu's secret is?".
2. To add to the vocabulary sheet as they make their way through the book and encounter unfamiliar words. This will become a good reference sheet for them. I have others available at school if they fill up this page.
3. To make their prediction as to what will happen in the first chapter.
4. To read the first chapter.
5. To answer the accompanied questions.

This may seem like a lot to complete, however the first chapter only has five pages of writing.

As the long weekend is coming up I will give them until Wednesday to complete this first chapter of work. As chapter two is very short I will given the questions to the students when they return their duotangs on wednesday but will ask for this back on Friday.

Hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving weekend - I am feeling thankful for this wonderful class of hardworking students!

Mlle S

September:

09/30/2019

Wow, can you believe September is over already? It has been a busy but wonderful start to the school year! This week we are switching things up a bit.

We will NOT be having a verb quiz this Friday. As some students are still having trouble speaking french in front of their peers, this week they have been asked to prepare a mini presentation on a subject that interests them. This could be an animal, activity, place, or a person. They have been asked to have enough material to speak for AT LEAST 45 seconds (the goal is one minute). I have told them that they can have cue cards, and can show a title page on a Google Slide if they wish to show a picture of some sort. I am looking to see that they have practiced and prepared their presentation, and are speaking with fluency and confidence! I will be asking the students to share the topic that they have chosen with me on Wednesday. Presentations will begin next week - looking forward to hearing about ce qui vous intéresse!

Coming up this week:

• Picture Day - Wednesday (October 2nd)

09/16/2019

We had a busy and productive week of school and the verb practice is paying off! I was very impressed to see that most students had spent time last week learning their être and avoir verbs. This week we are going to continue to work on learning when to use être and when to use avoir in a sentence. The students are also going to be introduce to the three groups of verbs and how to conjugate them in the present tense. We are going to start with the first group, which is verbs that end in "er", and will have a quiz on Friday. In science we are beginning to look at Properties of and Changes in Matter. I will post some practice verb work on the Hapara this evening. If students would like to wait till tomorrow evening to start looking at it that is totally fine. We just briefly started to look at it today but will be spending more time on it tomorrow. Students are encouraged to be reading in french for at least 15 mins every evening. Reading comprehension questions will begin next week.

Mlle. S

09/08/2019

Hello everyone! We had a wonderful first week of school! I really enjoyed meeting all of you and getting started on the learning that is going to take place this year. This year I will be teaching the grade five class french, science and art. Mr. Monette will be teaching social studies, gym and health. They will go to the classroom next door, Mrs. Cooper, for English, math and religion. If you did not get a chance to fill out the student information sheet located on the homepage please do so below. As an added reminder, we are having our school open house this Tuesday evening from 5:00pm-6:30pm - hope you can make it!

Homework this week:

• We will be having our first verb quiz this Friday on the verbs "Être et Avoir". Students will need to fill out a conjugation chart and then insert the correct verb or pronoun into sentences. This should be a review for most students but will be very important for them to know and apply in both their oral and written communication. I will post some practice questions on their Hapara portal on Monday.