le 26 - 30 mai

A few updates for this last week of May:

-Spectacular, Spectaculaire performance on Tuesday at 1:30 and 4:30
-Spring Photo orders due May 27th
-WDM outing on Wednesday morning. We will be leaving school first thing in the morning, so students will need to be on time
-Home Reading Books are coming home on Monday and are due back on Friday
-Library on Friday. Please bring back your books to exchange for new ones.
-Dictee this week will be a review of all the sounds we have learned this year. The words will not be coming home for practice.
-Thank you to all parents who have offered to give some time to come along on field trips. I now have enough volunteers for every outing. Merci beaucoup!

Quelle bonne journee!

Instead of Au courant this week, you are getting a blog post from our class:

On a eu visiteurs qui ont fait les experiences de sciences avec nous. On a fait les bateaux avec nos amis. C'etait tout a propos de l'eau. On a vu si les bateaux ont flotte, et on a mis des billes pour voir combien avant que c'est couler. Mega-Boat a gagne! Elles ont mis l'eau et de l'huile dans une canette, et on a mis du LEGO, un cork et une trombone.  Le cork etait sur l'huile, le LEGO etait dessous l'huile mais sur l'eau, et la trombone est coule dessous l'eau.
Puis nous sommes alles a la bibliotheque. On a echange nos livres, et Mme H nous a lu une histoire des animaux et la Terre. Elle a choisi une histoire des tortues, parce qu'on parle des tortues, et aujourd'hui c'est World Turtle Day.
On a fini a parler et a apprendre au sujet des formes et des solides geometriques.
On a parle des verbes cette semaine.
Nous avons fait lecture a soi dehors cet apres-midi, et on a joue dehors.

Quelle bonne journee!

le 20-23 mai

Here are some updates for this short week:

-Pizza order forms for the Family Fun Night are due back on Tuesday
-Ticket order forms for Spectacular, Spectaculaire are due back on Tuesday
-Please send back the blue form to let us know what your child will do after school before the 4:30 Spectacular, Spectaculaire performance
-Please send back any Data Sheets that may be at home
-I will be sending home a note about the May 28th field trip to the WDM on Tuesday. Please sign and return. Also, if you are able to help out with this field trip, please let me know as I currently have no parent volunteers.
-Home Reading Books are coming home on Tuesday and are due back on Friday
-Spring photo proofs and order forms are coming home on Monday. If you wish to order, please return to school by May 27th.
-Friday morning we are having a special science presentation in our classroom all about water
-Library on Friday. Please bring back books to exchange for new ones.
-Friday, May 23rd is World Turtle Day!
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be practicing some commonly misspelled homophones, as well as when to use each. I have included a sample sentence and the English translation. The words are as follows:

c’est (Aujourd'hui c'est lundi. it's)
ses (Il porte ses souliers. his/her plurel)
sais (Je sais la reponse! know)
et (J'aime du broccoli et des carottes. and)
est (Il est venteux. is)
c’était (C'était une bonne fin de semaine! it was)

Upcoming Field Trips in May and June

Last week, I sent a note home with some field trips for which we will need some parent volunteers. If you are able to come along to help out on any of these trips, please let me know!

May 28th - morning only - Western Development Museum, Museum Days - still need 3 parents **this trip is done in small groups and students participate in demonstrations and activities, without parent volunteers we will not be able to go**
June 2nd - 10:30-2:30/3pm - Children's Festival - still need 2 or 3 parents
June 6th - 9-11:45am - Frances Morrison Library - still need 1 or 2 parents
June 16th - 9-11:30am - Saskatoon Zoo with our Kindergarten care partners - still need 1 or 2 parents

Thank you for your support at home!

Les tortues marines

I have been meaning to post this for quite sometime, but here it is, our newest MIMI poster:

Les poussins

This past week at school, the grade one class had the incubator an the eggs which hatched into chicks. We visited every day and made observations to learn about the life cycle of chickens. We also read lots of interesting books about eggs and chickens, and compared their life cycle to that of the sea turtle.

le 12 - 15 mai

Here are some updates/reminders for this short week:
-Home Reading Books are coming home on Monday and are due back on Thursday
-Library is on Thursday this week. Please bring back your books to exchange for new ones.
-Dictee is on Thursday this week. This week's words are all question words. They are as follows:

est-ce que

pourquoi
quoi
quand
qui
où
combien

-No school on Friday. (PD and planning time for teachers)
-No school on Monday for the Victoria Day holiday

Les solides geometriques

For the past week and a bit, we have been learning about 2D shapes and 3D solids. On Thursday, we went on a search for 3D solids around the classroom and sorted them into groups. Here are some photos of our work:

Les cubes

Les pyramides

 

Les spheres

Les prismes rectangulaires



Les cylindres

We revisited our sorting because we sometimes had trouble deciding the difference between cubes and rectangular prisms, and also between spheres and cylinders.

Joyeuses Fetes des Meres

I hope that all mothers enjoyed a lovely Mothers Day weekend, and that the gift from your child was a nice surprise. The adjective Wordles gave us a chance to learn about feminine adjectives, as well as a chance to work with our big care partners on the computers.

Joyeuses Fetes des Meres!

Le cadeau

Les tortues marines

As you may have heard, we have been learning about sea turtles to go along with our new MIMI poster. Instead of Au courant this week, we are writing a blog post together to share some interesting facts we have learned this week. Enjoy!

-Les tortues de mer peuvent nager tres vite dans l'eau - jusqu'a 15 km/h!
-Si le sable est chaude (plus que 30 degrees C), les tortues vont etre femelles, et si le sable est un peu moins chaud (28-29 degrees C), les tortues vont etre les males.
-Les tortues ne peuvent pas retracter leurs tetes, ni leurs nageoires dans leurs carapaces. S'il y a un danger, les tortues de mer doivent s'enfuir.
-Les oeufs des tortues marines sont souples, alors les bebes tortues doivent utiliser les dents de l'oeuf pour sortir de l'oeuf.
-Les tortues marines ne peuvent pas respirer sous l'eau, alors elles doivent aller a la surface pour ouvrir les narines pour respirer l'air. Elles ferment les narines avant de descendre.
-Seulement les femelles sortent de l'eau.
-Quand les tortues veulent dormer dans l'eau, elles vont plus lentement. Les tortues de mer ferment les paupieres quand elles dorment.
-Les bebes tortues de mer doivent aller a l'ocean rapidement, ou elles vont etre la nourriture pour les predateurs (par exemples, les ratons laveurs, les crabes, les chiens errants et les oiseaux).
-Apres que la tortue de mer a pondu ses oeufs, elle doit rentrer vite dans l'ocean pour qu'elle ne meurt pas.
-Quand les tortues mangent, et s'il y a un coquillage ou un crabe ou un poisson devant la bouche, elles vont les manger.
-La tortue ne prend pas soin des oeufs apres qu'ils sont pondus.
-Apres que le male et la femelle sont ensembles, la femelle pond des oeufs.
-Les tortues marines peuvent pondre environ 150 oeufs dans un nid.
-Les males ont une griffe pour attacher a la femelle.
-Les tortues vertes sont les herbivores, elles mangent seulement les plantes.
-Il y a 7 especes de tortue marine.
-Les bebes tortues savent ou l'ocean est, mais si les maisons sont allumees, les bebes tortues peuvent devenir confuses, et vont aller dans la mauvaise direction.

le 5 - 9 mai

Here are some reminders for the week:

-Au courant journals should come back to school on Monday
-Home Reading Books will come home on Monday and are due back on Friday
-Hot lunch order forms are due back on Tuesday. The Pizza Hut hot lunch is on Friday.
-Scholastic orders are due back on Wednesday
-Picture Day on Thursday. Forms for choosing poses went home last week.
-Data Sheets should be looked over, corrections made, signed and returned as soon as possible.
-Library on Friday. Please bring back your books to exchange for new ones.
-Assembly Friday
-Pizza Hut Hot Lunch and Spirit Day - Crazy Hair Day on Friday
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be looking at the letters ein. The words are as follows:

la peinture
plein comme un œuf
peindre
éteindre
une ceinture