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