Monday 27 June 2016
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Tuesday 7 June 2016
Monday 6 June 2016
Spectaculaire Infomration
Spectaculaire
French
Immersion Concert
Wednesday,
June 15
11:15-1:15
Dear
parents/guardians:
Once
again the French Immersion FDK and Primary Divisions are pleased to invite you
to attend our production where we are celebrating the talent of your children.
Some classes will perform songs, plays, and will play some instruments.
We can’t
wait to see you! Save the date!
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Program
Order
1) Mme
Boyle/Mme Kawamura
2) Mme
Briand/Mme Tait
3) Mme Forbes
4) Mme Garant
5) Mlle
Kirkland
6) Mme Kelly
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Monday 9 May 2016
May 9th 2016
Monday, May 9th
Hello All!
The following is a quick update about what we have on the go this month!
Language:
Writing: We have begun our Explanation Writing form. We are explaining various topics, for example, "Explain why it is important to follow the rules in the gym" and "Explain how you are ready for the second grade".
Reading: I will be completing our final GB+ reading assessment over the next few weeks. Students are encouraged to continue reading on the Lecture Enfant website that has been posted on the blog throughout the year. Please be reading and working on reading strategies daily.
Speaking: Students SHOULD be speaking completely in French at this time. Please encourage your child to be speaking in French-- this will support their reading and writing greatly.
Math:
We have completed our Probability Unit and are moving into our 5th Math unit for this term: 3D Geometry. We will be focusing on identifying various 3D shapes by name (cube, cône, cylindre, prisme, sphère, pyramide, etc) and their different attributes (les sommets, les faces, et les arêtes).
Science:
We are moving into our final unit for Science: Daily and Seasonal Changes. We are continuing to observe our growing plants in the classroom as well as our "tétards" - our tadpoles.
Social Studies:
We are working away on "Our Local Community". We will begin our final projects soon as students will create a building that is important to our community. They will write a short explanation on why the building is important to our community, who works there, what they do, etc. We will create our own little city in the classroom!
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education. Hard to believe it's May already!
Happy Monday!
Mme K. Forbes
Hello All!
The following is a quick update about what we have on the go this month!
Language:
Writing: We have begun our Explanation Writing form. We are explaining various topics, for example, "Explain why it is important to follow the rules in the gym" and "Explain how you are ready for the second grade".
Reading: I will be completing our final GB+ reading assessment over the next few weeks. Students are encouraged to continue reading on the Lecture Enfant website that has been posted on the blog throughout the year. Please be reading and working on reading strategies daily.
Speaking: Students SHOULD be speaking completely in French at this time. Please encourage your child to be speaking in French-- this will support their reading and writing greatly.
Math:
We have completed our Probability Unit and are moving into our 5th Math unit for this term: 3D Geometry. We will be focusing on identifying various 3D shapes by name (cube, cône, cylindre, prisme, sphère, pyramide, etc) and their different attributes (les sommets, les faces, et les arêtes).
Science:
We are moving into our final unit for Science: Daily and Seasonal Changes. We are continuing to observe our growing plants in the classroom as well as our "tétards" - our tadpoles.
Social Studies:
We are working away on "Our Local Community". We will begin our final projects soon as students will create a building that is important to our community. They will write a short explanation on why the building is important to our community, who works there, what they do, etc. We will create our own little city in the classroom!
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education. Hard to believe it's May already!
Happy Monday!
Mme K. Forbes
Thursday 28 April 2016
Thursday 21 April 2016
Monday 18 April 2016
April 18
Bonjour tout le monde!
It's already creeping up to the end of April. Where has this year gone!? I am welcoming this beautiful weather we are having!
Just a few quick updates of what we have going on in the classroom this week...
Oral Language - Listening and Speaking -- PLEASE encourage your child to be speaking in French in the classroom at all times. Using the vocabulary learned in class is the BEST way to strengthen understanding and further help with reading. You may also find French resources on YouTube, Television, or the Radio to support hearing the French language at home. At this point in Grade One, students should be speaking in French at all times. Reading: I have completed GB+ assessments with each student. I am very happy with how our reading is coming along. PLEASE continue to work on basic reading strategies at home every night to help support your child's reading.
- pointing to each word, sounding out each letter out loud, re-reading, using pictures, etc.
Writing: We are finishing up with Narrative writing this week. We have focused on generating and organizing ideas and developing vocabulary for our Narratives. We have focused on the "who, what, when, where, problem, and solution" for our stories.
Math: We are finishing up with our Number Sense and Numeration unit. We have worked with Number Lines, Base 10 manipulatives, ten frames, money, anchors of 5 and 10 and adding doubles. This week we will be investigating halves and quarters as an introduction to fractions.
Please work on addition and subtraction strategies such adding doubles and anchors of 5 and 10 (ie. 12 is the same as 5+5+2 or 10+2). Please continue to work on skip counting and identifying numbers on the hundreds chart that was sent home.
This week we have the Jump Rope Kick Off on Wednesday afternoon and we have 3 different presentations on Thursday! What a week!
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
Mme K. Forbes
It's already creeping up to the end of April. Where has this year gone!? I am welcoming this beautiful weather we are having!
Just a few quick updates of what we have going on in the classroom this week...
Oral Language - Listening and Speaking -- PLEASE encourage your child to be speaking in French in the classroom at all times. Using the vocabulary learned in class is the BEST way to strengthen understanding and further help with reading. You may also find French resources on YouTube, Television, or the Radio to support hearing the French language at home. At this point in Grade One, students should be speaking in French at all times. Reading: I have completed GB+ assessments with each student. I am very happy with how our reading is coming along. PLEASE continue to work on basic reading strategies at home every night to help support your child's reading.
- pointing to each word, sounding out each letter out loud, re-reading, using pictures, etc.
Writing: We are finishing up with Narrative writing this week. We have focused on generating and organizing ideas and developing vocabulary for our Narratives. We have focused on the "who, what, when, where, problem, and solution" for our stories.
Math: We are finishing up with our Number Sense and Numeration unit. We have worked with Number Lines, Base 10 manipulatives, ten frames, money, anchors of 5 and 10 and adding doubles. This week we will be investigating halves and quarters as an introduction to fractions.
Please work on addition and subtraction strategies such adding doubles and anchors of 5 and 10 (ie. 12 is the same as 5+5+2 or 10+2). Please continue to work on skip counting and identifying numbers on the hundreds chart that was sent home.
This week we have the Jump Rope Kick Off on Wednesday afternoon and we have 3 different presentations on Thursday! What a week!
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
Mme K. Forbes
Friday 1 April 2016
Montre et raconte
Montre et raconte
Avril 2016
Students should bring in something that starts with the first letter of their name to share with the class.
Students should bring in something that starts with the first letter of their name to share with the class.
Students will give a short
oral presentation using learned vocabulary (with support from the teacher).
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lundi
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mardi
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mercredi
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jeudi
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vendredi
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1
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4
Nicole
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5
Aili
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6
Kieran
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7
Payton
H.L.
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8
Kalib
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11
Jace
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12
Astrid
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13
Payton
M.
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14
Alice
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15
PD DAY
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18
Lincoln
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19
Emma
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20
Keerit
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21
Kaelynn
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22
Tru
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25
Isaiah
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26
Mackenzie
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27
Valerie
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28
Liam
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29
Clara
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Thursday 31 March 2016
Ice Cold Experiments!
Wednesday 30 March 2016
C'est le printemps déjà!!
Bonjour!
Hard to believe it is the end of March already!
Reading - As we head into April, I have been completing another GB+ reading assessment with each student. Our reading is coming along nicely!
Please remember to read with your child each day and work on reading strategies. Students are encouraged to sound out words carefully by covering their words with their finger, saying the sounds out loud, and re-reading the blends to put the word together. Furthermore, after sounding out a word, make sure that they are repeating the word carefully.
I have posted the Lecture Enfant - vidéos link on the blog with the username and password. Please visit this site frequently as it offers books read aloud as well as sight words so that students hear correct pronunciation.
Oral Language - Listening and Speaking -- PLEASE encourage your child to be speaking in French in the classroom at all times. Using the vocabulary learned in class is the BEST way to strengthen understanding and further help with reading. You may also find French resources on YouTube, Television, or the Radio to support hearing the French language at home.
Math - We have been working on balancing equations (with numbers less than 10) as an introduction to Algebra.
For example,
a. 6+3 = 5+___
b. 8 -___ = 2+3
The class has been doing very well with this concept but I would ask that you continue to work on these at home.
We are moving on to Number Sense and Numeration. We will be solidifying our counting by 10s and making groups of 10. We will be composing and decomposing numbers to 20 in a variety of ways. We will be counting backwards from 20 by 1s, 2s, and 5s. Please be counting at home each day in a variety of ways, (skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and backwards). We will be investigating dividing whole objects into equal parts using fractional names (halves, fourths, and one-quarter).
Science - We will be finishing up our Energy Unit in the next few weeks. We will be discussing Wind Energy and continuing with energy from the Sun as we grow some plants in class. We will be looking at the transfer of energy:
ex. from the sun --> to plants --> to animals --> to humans
Tomorrow is our presentation from L.C. Henderson on Spring Water Awareness.
Social Studies - We are continuing with Our Local Community. We have been looking at Ontario and Sarnia maps, local landmarks, etc. We have talked about residential and commercial areas of the city. We have talked about plans for what we can do to make our community a more safe or clean place. We will be investigating occupations in these upcoming weeks.
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education. We have been having a great time so far this year!
Mme K. Forbes
kelli.forbes@lkdsb.net
Hard to believe it is the end of March already!
Reading - As we head into April, I have been completing another GB+ reading assessment with each student. Our reading is coming along nicely!
Please remember to read with your child each day and work on reading strategies. Students are encouraged to sound out words carefully by covering their words with their finger, saying the sounds out loud, and re-reading the blends to put the word together. Furthermore, after sounding out a word, make sure that they are repeating the word carefully.
I have posted the Lecture Enfant - vidéos link on the blog with the username and password. Please visit this site frequently as it offers books read aloud as well as sight words so that students hear correct pronunciation.
Oral Language - Listening and Speaking -- PLEASE encourage your child to be speaking in French in the classroom at all times. Using the vocabulary learned in class is the BEST way to strengthen understanding and further help with reading. You may also find French resources on YouTube, Television, or the Radio to support hearing the French language at home.
Math - We have been working on balancing equations (with numbers less than 10) as an introduction to Algebra.
For example,
a. 6+3 = 5+___
b. 8 -___ = 2+3
The class has been doing very well with this concept but I would ask that you continue to work on these at home.
We are moving on to Number Sense and Numeration. We will be solidifying our counting by 10s and making groups of 10. We will be composing and decomposing numbers to 20 in a variety of ways. We will be counting backwards from 20 by 1s, 2s, and 5s. Please be counting at home each day in a variety of ways, (skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and backwards). We will be investigating dividing whole objects into equal parts using fractional names (halves, fourths, and one-quarter).
Science - We will be finishing up our Energy Unit in the next few weeks. We will be discussing Wind Energy and continuing with energy from the Sun as we grow some plants in class. We will be looking at the transfer of energy:
ex. from the sun --> to plants --> to animals --> to humans
Tomorrow is our presentation from L.C. Henderson on Spring Water Awareness.
Social Studies - We are continuing with Our Local Community. We have been looking at Ontario and Sarnia maps, local landmarks, etc. We have talked about residential and commercial areas of the city. We have talked about plans for what we can do to make our community a more safe or clean place. We will be investigating occupations in these upcoming weeks.
Thank you for the continued support of your child's education. We have been having a great time so far this year!
Mme K. Forbes
kelli.forbes@lkdsb.net
Monday 7 March 2016
Monday, March 7th
Bonjour!
Hard to believe that March Break is coming so soon!
Dictée words for this week all have the letter /e/ sound.
1. le renard
2. petit
3. un arbre
4. je regarde
Math
We are moving into Patterning and Algebra with numerical patterns. We are learning to build 100s charts and find numerical patterns within the chart. For example, we are looking at how a 100s chart is set up - growing and shrinking patterns, numbers within the columns and rows, etc.
What can we work on at home? Please work on COUNTING! In all different ways! -- Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. -- Counting forwards and backwards from 20, etc.
Language
Writing:
We are learning to organize and develop ideas for a Narrative. We have been working on plans for our own stories and will be writing various stories as a class. We are learning the different parts of a Narrative. We are focusing on the Characters, Problem, Solution and Setting of the stories that we read and write.
What can we work on at home? Each time you read a story, please ask your child questions such as Who, What, When, Where, Why? about the story!
Reading:
Please continue to use the online "Livres-vidéos" site for further resources in French. Please visit the Sight Words activities as well as the Books sections.
Username: cathcart
Password: bonjour
I will be completing another GB+ Reading Assessment with the class in the Spring.
Please continue to work on the reading strategies that we have been focusing on in class - point to each word, re-read words after sounding out, covering words, using pictures to make connections with vocabulary words, read out loud, recount the story after reading, etc.
Have a great week and March Break!
Mme K. Forbes
Hard to believe that March Break is coming so soon!
Dictée words for this week all have the letter /e/ sound.
1. le renard
2. petit
3. un arbre
4. je regarde
Math
We are moving into Patterning and Algebra with numerical patterns. We are learning to build 100s charts and find numerical patterns within the chart. For example, we are looking at how a 100s chart is set up - growing and shrinking patterns, numbers within the columns and rows, etc.
What can we work on at home? Please work on COUNTING! In all different ways! -- Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. -- Counting forwards and backwards from 20, etc.
Language
Writing:
We are learning to organize and develop ideas for a Narrative. We have been working on plans for our own stories and will be writing various stories as a class. We are learning the different parts of a Narrative. We are focusing on the Characters, Problem, Solution and Setting of the stories that we read and write.
What can we work on at home? Each time you read a story, please ask your child questions such as Who, What, When, Where, Why? about the story!
Reading:
Please continue to use the online "Livres-vidéos" site for further resources in French. Please visit the Sight Words activities as well as the Books sections.
Username: cathcart
Password: bonjour
I will be completing another GB+ Reading Assessment with the class in the Spring.
Please continue to work on the reading strategies that we have been focusing on in class - point to each word, re-read words after sounding out, covering words, using pictures to make connections with vocabulary words, read out loud, recount the story after reading, etc.
Have a great week and March Break!
Mme K. Forbes
Thursday 3 March 2016
Tuesday 1 March 2016
March Show and Tell Schedule
Montre et raconte
Mars 2016
Topic: Free Choice.
Students maybe bring in something special to them that they would like to share
with the class.
Students will give a short oral presentation using learned vocabulary (with support from the teacher).
Students will give a short oral presentation using learned vocabulary (with support from the teacher).
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lundi
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mardi
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mercredi
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jeudi
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vendredi
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1
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2
Valerie
Liam
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3
Isaiah
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4
Clara
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7
Nicole
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8
Aili
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9
Kieran
Tru |
10
Payton
H.L.
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11
Kalib
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March
Break |
March
Break |
March
Break |
March
Break |
March
Break |
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21
Lincoln
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22
Emma
Alice |
23
Keerit
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24
Kaelynn
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25
Good Friday
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28
Easter Monday
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29
Mackenzie
Payton M. |
30
Jace
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31
Astrid
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