Les chansons

We have been practicing these songs for a few weeks now! Bonjour l'hiver et Petit garçon. Enjoy!

Friday's Fun!

Les structures

We found some empty boxes... So we made a workshop!

Les structures

Character Trait Celebration Walk

These students received certificates for Inclusion, Respect or Courage. Each month we work on a different character trait. This month, we are working on empathy.

Dictée Words

The dictée words this week focus on the "au" (o) sound. 

1. saute
2. autre
3. une auto
4. jaune

 

Montre et raconte - Décembre

Montre et raconte

Décembre 2015

Students should bring in a collection or part of a collection to show the class.

Students will give a short oral presentation using learned vocabulary (with support from the teacher).

lundi	mardi	mercredi	jeudi	vendredi
	1 Liam Mackenzie	2 Valerie Isaiah	3 Clara Nicole Kaelynn	4 Aili Kieran
7 Payton H.L. Kalib	8 Jace Astrid	9 Payton M. Alice	10 Lincoln Emma	11 Keerit Tru
14	15	16	17	18

Book Fair

Just a reminder that our time to visit the Book Fair is Thursday, December 3rd from 11:30 to 12:00. Parents and guardians are welcome to join us!! :)

Monday, November 30th

Bonjour!
Our dictée words for this week focus on the /on/ sound -- nasal sound.
-  un cochon
-  le gazon
-  les bonbons


Three words this week!

Friday, November 27

More Fall Fun

Some of Our Fall Fun

Dictée Words this Week

Hello all!

Our dictée words for the week all contain the /ou/ sound:
1. la soupe
2. je cours
3. je trouve
4. j'écoute

Math:
We are continuing on with Measurement this week. We have been learning a variety of new vocabulary words: longueur, hauteur, grandeur, estimation, etc. We have been comparing, estimating and measuring many different objects in the classroom. Today we compared and measured les hauteurs of our friends. The students ordered themselves from shortest to tallest! They did a great job working as a team today! :)

Language: 
We are focusing on the /ou/ sound this week. We will be hunting for this sound in various vocabulary activities this week.
Writing:
We will be introducing the Persuasive Writing form this week.
Oral:
Please encourage your child to be speaking in French in the classroom. 
Reading:
I have completed most GB+ reading assessments with students that are ready to be assessed. We are moving right along in our reading. Please continue to practise sight words with the students at home (from the chart/list I sent home last week). Also, I posted information on the home reading program where you can click on sight words and have your child repeat these words at home. We are also working on this in class as part of our centres on the iPads. Here is the information again...

http://livresvideo.net/
username: cathcart
password: bonjour

Science:
We have moved on to Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures. Today we discussed various materials that we saw in the classroom and went on a scavenger hunt to find and label different objects that we found made from wood (bois), steel (l'acier), rubber (caoutchouc), plastic (plastique), paper (papier), fabric (tissu). 

Important Dates:Thursday Nov. 26th - We welcome another visitor into our classroom. We have a firefighter coming into the classroom to teach us about fire safety! 

Enjoy your week!
Mme K. Forbes

La lecture

Bonjour tout le monde!
I hope you are enjoying your Friday! Here is the link to a website that we will be using in class for reading and solidifying our sounds.

http://livresvideo.net/
username: cathcart
password: bonjour



Once you log in, please ensure that your volume is ON. You will see Reading Skills at 4 different levels and Sight Words. If your child had difficulty on the Sight Words page that I sent home earlier this week, please start here. For the Reading Skills, you can choose a different "vitesse" (speed) -- Vitesse 3 should work well for our students. These are always a good reminder for students and will help to solidify their sounds. Please have them repeat the sounds that they hear.
There are a variety of animals listed on the page as well. These are all leveled texts. Each animal has a bunch of different books at that level. The books are read aloud.

Please try to access Lecture Enfant each night as homework- "les devoirs". It is great reinforcement so that students hear the correct pronunciation of the words while being able to read them at the same time.

Thank you for the continued support of your child's education.
Mme K. Forbes

November 16 - 20

Bonjour!
This week's dictée words are:  le roi, le mois, je bois, and trois.
We are studying the "oi" (wa) sound again this week. 


Thank you to all who have submitted the permission form for the blog. If you haven't submitted that page, could you please do so asap so I can post some pictures! :) Thank you!

Math - We are moving on to Measurement. Some of the main vocabulary words that we will study over the next few weeks are: longueur, hauteur, grandeur, comparer, mesurer, plus longue, plus courte, et l'aire. 
We will be continuing on with number sense (counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100, understanding the idea and quantity of number, breaking numbers down, making 10, etc.) throughout the year. 

Language - We just finished another Recount piece of writing about Remembrance Day, following a model. We are continuing to work on our reading, writing, and oral (speaking and listening) each day.
Please encourage your child to be speaking FRENCH in class at all times. Please reinforce at home that they should be using their learned French vocabulary words in class.

Science - We are still working away on Needs and Characteristics of Living Things. We have moved on to the Human Body, discussing major body organs and their functions. 

Please check the SCHOOL WEBSITE for an update from the Director of Education regarding Progress Reports and Interviews.
I hope you all enjoy the beautiful weather!!
K. Forbes


 

This week!

Bonjour!
What a busy upcoming week we have!

Just a quick confirmation of this week's "mots de dictée" 
     - moi
     - toi
     - voici
     - noir

* "oi" makes the "wa" sound

Reminders for this week:
Wednesday the 11th: Wednesday we have our Remembrance Day Assembly. Our class will be joining up with the Grade 1/2 split class and together we will be seeing "Beau coquelicot". The assembly begins at 11:30 for the primary students. 

Thursday the 12th: The Toronto Zoo is coming this week for a Science Presentation at 11:30 on Thursday, November 12th.

Friday the 13th:  I have arranged for the Sarnia Police to present to our Primary Division at the school. Our class presentation is at 11:50 to 12:20.

Please remember that Book Orders are due this Thursday, November 12th.

Mathematics
We have been working away in Mathematics on our Data Management unit and should be finishing up shortly. Students have been developing questions, organizing data, creating graphs, and answering questions about their graphs for the past week. They have done extremely well. We have worked on a variety of types of graphs together. We have organized our data using tally charts, bar graphs, pictographs, etc. We have talked about the differences between quantities, how they know which one has less or more, and how many less or more in each bar. We have asked questions with specific yes or no answers and we have asked more open questions with two possible answers, ex. "Est-ce que tu aimes l'automne?" or "Est-ce que tu préfères les chiens ou les chats?".

We have also been working on our counting to 100 by 1s and skip counting by 5s and 10s to 50.  Please continue to work on these types of counting activities at home with your child every day.

Language -
Writing- We are still working on Recount Writing. We have been working in small and large groups to create a recount piece of writing following a model. The key words that we have been following in our model are Premièrement, Ensuite, Après and Finalement (First, Then, After, Finally)
Reading - We are doing so well with our reading! Please continue to support your child's reading at home by helping them to sound out their letters, repeat words and sentences, use the pictures to help make connections, etc.
Oral - Listening and Speaking - I have been really trying to encourage speaking French in the classroom. Please encourage your child to speak in French, using the words that he/she knows. This is an expectation in the classroom.

If you haven't already done so, please sign up to receive quick text messages using Remind 101 -- I sent home a sheet last week with the number to text to be added to the list. I will be sending quick reminders for different events during the week!

Thank you so much for the continued support of your child's education.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me - email is easiest.

K. Forbes

Remind 101

Please follow the instructions on the Remind handout that I sent home yesterday to receive quick text (updates, reminders, important information)!
This will be the easiest way to know what is going on in the classroom and when I post on the blog!
Thank you!
Happy Thursday!

Terry Fox and Remind 101

We are going to take advantage of this BEAUTIFUL November weather and hold our Terry Fox Run tomorrow (Thursday November 5th) during our Third Instructional Block beginning at 2:00pm. Pledge forms were distributed yesterday. We will be collecting donations for the next few weeks and a final date will be given soon.

Also, I will be sending home a sheet of instructions for Remind 101. Please text the number on the paper so that you will receive quick reminder messages about upcoming events and a note of when to check the blog!

We have A LOT going on this month! A few more important dates to add to the list:
Tomorrow we have a brass ensemble presentation at 10:00.
Thursday, November 12th - Toronto Zoo Science presentation

Enjoy this beautiful weather!
Mme K. Forbes

Show and Tell Schedules for November and December

Montre et raconte

Novembre 2015

Students should bring in a photograph of somebody or somewhere special to you. This can be a family member, pet, or place.

Students will give a short oral presentation using learned vocabulary (with support from the teacher).

lundi	mardi	mercredi	jeudi	vendredi
2	3	4 Valerie	5 Isaiah	6 Clara
9 Nicole	10 Aili	11 Kieran	12 Payton H.L.	13 Kalib
16 Jace	17 Astrid	18 Payton M.	19 Alice	20 PD DAY
23 Lincoln Kaelynn	24 Emma	25 Keerit	26 Tru	27 Liam
30 Mackenzie

Montre et raconte

Décembre 2015

Students should bring in a collection or part of a collection to show the class.

Students will give a short oral presentation using learned vocabulary (with support from the teacher).

lundi	mardi	mercredi	jeudi	vendredi
	1 Liam Mackenzie	2 Valerie Isaiah	3 Clara Nicole Kaelynn	4 Aili Kieran
7 Payton H.L. Kalib	8 Jace Astrid	9 Payton M. Alice	10 Lincoln Emma	11 Keerit Tru
14	15	16	17	18

Monday November 2nd

Bonjour tout le monde! :)

I'm so excited to be able to post an update on our classroom blog! :)

What a great couple of weeks it's been in the classroom! This past month, the students have grown so much as Grade One students!

Literacy
Writing
We have been working on Recount Writing. Students have been helping to create vocabulary lists to help model our Recount Writing. Following the model that we have created together, students are writing their very own recounts of different events, such as books that we have read, their weekend, Thanksgiving and Halloween night! I am so proud of the great work that they are producing!
Oral
We are working away at speaking French in the classroom. Please encourage your child to be speaking French in the classroom using learned vocabulary.
Reading
Thank you for continuing to read with your child each night. Please work on sounding out their words, pointing to each word, and talking about what they read (recounting what they have read will help to reinforce the idea of recount writing that we are also working on). You can also talk about the pictures, what they see, how many words are in the sentence, the capitals, periods, etc in the sentence structure itself... the possibilities are endless!
On Mondays, I ask students to find their "good fit" book to take home with them for the week. A "good fit" book is one that they know MOST of the words and can read them accurately.

Math
We are moving into Data Management this week. We will be graphing in a variety of ways and learning how to ask questions about our graphs to describe our data. We will continue to practice counting to 100, representing numbers in various ways, and skip counting (by 5s, 10s, and eventually 2s) daily. Please practice counting activities and basic addition and subtraction math problems at home (ex. If you have 3 cookies and your sister has 2 cookies, how many cookies do we have in total? ... There are 10 dogs at the park. Three dogs go home. How many dogs are still at the park?... I have 4 pink cars and 7 red cars. How many more red cars are there than pink cars?)

Halloween
What a GREAT day we had on Friday!! I am so very proud of my class and the great job that they did on Friday. I had set up a variety of Halloween activities, crafts, literacy activities etc. The students learned and played so well together! It was so much fun! We walked the hallways during our parade, danced in the gym, and had lots of treats! -- After our activities, I played the Mission Impossible theme song while we all tidied up the room -- I have never seen the room look so clean!! They loved it!!

Upcoming Important Dates:
November 11th - Remembrance Day Assembly at 11:30 - Our class will be performing a song "Beau coquelicot" with Mme Garant's class
November 13th - I have arranged for a Police Officer to come speak with the Primary classes in our school
November 26th - I have arranged for a Fireman to come speak with the Primary classes in our school

I will send home a letter this week as I would love to get Montre et raconte started up again as well as the outline for a Timeline project for Social Studies.

Thank you for the continued support of your child's education and your patience throughout this past month.
Mme K. Forbes

Week of September 21st

Unfortunately, I am no longer permitted to update our classroom blog or send newsletters home as per the Work to Rule action that begins on Monday, September 21st. Please call the school if you have any questions or concerns. You can also check the school website for upcoming events and important dates.

Mme K. Forbes

 

Montre et raconte

Bonjour tout le monde!

Students will begin to present a short "Montre et raconte" to the class next week!
This month's "Montre et raconte" is all about summer! Students are asked to bring in a picture, brochure, souvenir, and/or share a memory about something they did or saw while on summer vacation!
The schedule is posted at the bottom of the blog. Please send your child prepared with something to present to their classmates!
Show and Tells encourage oral discussions and using learned vocabulary in French. 

Thank you for the continued support of your child's education.
Mme K. Forbes

Monday, September 14th

Bonjour!

I'm sorry for any inconvenience, but we will not be able to collect any BOOK ORDERS until further notice. Please do not send in any book orders this week.
Again, I am sorry for any inconvenience.
Mme Forbes

Les mots importants

Bonjour!
What a great week we've had so far! This year is going to be great!

This week (and for the next few) we will be focusing on important words that we see frequently in our reading.
This week we have focused on - le , la, les, un and une.

You can work with your child by showing them a model of these words and asking them to read them to you, write them for you, create them with different objects at home, etc. We have used white boards, alphabet beans, foam letters, etc. to create our alphabets and our 5 important words (le, la, les, un, une). 

In Math, we have been reviewing number recognition, counting, and representing numbers. Please continue to work on recognizing and representing numbers with your child at home. We have also begun working on patterning and creating "les suites" (patterns) using various math manipulatives. Students have presented their patterns to the class using some French language.

We have had such a great week!
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education.
Mme K. Forbes

Wednesdays: Outdoor Phys. Ed.

Just a quick reminder:

Please make sure that your child has outdoor running shoes every Wednesday for their OUTDOOR phys. ed. time with Mme Wroblewski.
Thank you!
 

Welcome to Grade One FI

Welcome to Grade One!

I hope every one had an amazing summer! Hard to believe we are back in school already!

I hope every one received the note that I sent home and have followed this blog for classroom updates!

For the month of September, we will be learning our classroom routines and expectations.

Mathematics
We will be starting off with our first unit in Math very soon. We will be starting with Patterning and Algebra, focusing on patterning.

French Language
The focus will be on oral vocabulary for the first few weeks. Please encourage your child to speak French in the classroom with the words that they already know. This will help them when they begin to write in their journals and when we dive deeper into the writing forms because they will have practiced the vocabulary that they will need to now write.
Students will start bringing home books for our home reading program in the next couple of weeks once we review our reading strategies and assess for reading levels.

Science

Soon, we will begin our first Science unit, Needs and Characteristics of Living Things. We will be investigating, learning, and comparing various living things and what they need to survive.

I will continue to post on the blog each week with information on what we are learning in various subject areas.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Thank you for the continued support of your child's education.
Mme K. Forbes