Partage de livre starts Monday, November 21st

Starting next week, our ‘Montre et Raconte’ program will be followed with ‘Je partage mon livre’ (I share a book).

It means that your child will have to fill out a special report form on a book that s/he will be getting every week to read at home. Once a week (the day will be stated in agendas), your child will present the book to the class. Her/his presentation should be based on the filled-out report form.

The points on the report form are:

Here is the book that I want to share with my friends.

The title of my book is ……..

The author of my book is ………. .

The book is about………. . (briefly)

When I was reading the book, it made me think about ………. .

I liked the book because …/ I didn’t like the book because… (one of these)

The new words for me are …..

The sentence that I like the most is ……

There is also a spot where you child should illustrate his/her favorite page of the book.

After the presentation, your child will be asked some questions by other students from the class.

Questions might be:

How many pages are there in the book?

How long did it take you to read the book?

Why did you choose the book?

The day of your child’s presentation is stated in his/her agenda.

The new program will help to enhance the students’ interest in reading and writing and promote their literacy achievement. It will positively contribute to your and your child’s relationship when you snuggle up and read together.

Please do not forget to ask your little one about the presentation.

Good luck!

November Events

Thank you all for attending Teacher-Parent Interviews. I appreciated our sincere discussion about your child’s progress and hope that the dialog that we had will help us lead the children to the success that we all plan for them.
Also, I would like to thank all of you for supporting the programs that run in class.The Art Garage was a great success for grades 1. Children enjoyed and had fun working on the projects. The presenters were surprised how great students were in following all the instructions and managing to finish their projects on time. What a super way to wrap up a Science Unit!

Our Remembrance Day Assembly was a memorable event. A great way to commemorate those who fought for our freedom and happiness. Students were deeply engaged in watching slide shows and performances. I hope that the Assembly and class discussions contributed to their apprehending of the significance of this calendar date. We even listened to bag pipers playing! What a special day!

Data Management in Class

In this module, students are learning to:
- construct pictographs and concrete diagrams
- compare and/or classify objects in diagrams
- formulate questions, collect data and add it to a diagram
- read diagrams and formulate questions regarding their content

This is what we have done so far in class. Please feel free to discuss this with your little ones.

Procedural Writing in Room 111

During the month of November, we are learning the concept of : Procedure.

The purpose of a procedure is to list the actions and/or steps to follow in order to complete a specific task. The students are being exposed to different procedures - writing procedure, mathematical procedure, scientific procedure.

They are learning about instructions and are aware that an instructional sentence begins by an action word (a verb). This can be further explored at home playing games like "Simon says".

The students will soon begin writing their own instructions. Also, a project is coming up shortly - stay tuned!

Récit dans la classe

Apart from the Phonics, our Language program includes writing, reading, and speaking as you all know. At this stage, all the three aspects are inter-weaved and compliment each other. To be able to read and write, a child, at this age and stage of learning another language, needs a solid base of speaking skills that include knowledge of language structures and vocabulary. This is what we are busy with in our classroom right now.
In Writing, the students have been practising to recount some meaningful events from their lives. Our Science unit on Seasonal Changes also contributes to this language activity. They have been doing this orally, following the Curious Clown's questions and illustrating their stories. Last week, we started generating word lists that, eventually, are supposed to lead us to actual writing. In the picture. you can see one of them. Feel free to ask your child what it is about.

 How might the students know how they are doing? In class, we have a special display board that helps answer that question. First, they need to answer all Clown's questions. Second, there is supposed to be a picture with labels. Finally, when they write a sentence, they need to remember to make space between words, start each sentence with a capital letter, etc. The yellow poster helps verify if their job is well done.

La promenade d'automne

Lundi, le 31 octobre, we went for a seasonal walk. Our goal was to get some fresh fall air after a hard work in class and observe the changes that happen in the nature in the fall.
We saw leaves/les feuilles of different colours tomber jusqu'au sol. On a ramassé les feuilles rouges, vertes, brunes et jaunes. Also, we felt that it was chilly that is why we all were wearing les chandails et les manteaux. À la fin, we acted out our jolie comptine des feuilles:
Les feuilles jaunes tombent, tombent, tombent.
Les feuilles jaunes tombent jusqu'au sol.
Les feuilles rouges bougent, bougent, bougent.
Les feuilles rouges bougent dans le vent.
Les feuilles brunes volent, volent, volent.
Les feuilles brunes volent jusqu'au ciel.
We decided that on aime l'automne!

Math Homework

The Homework question was: How are the numbers 10 and 15 alike? How are they different?
This is what the students came up with today:
How are they alike?/Comment sont les nombres les même?
- Both are 2-digit numbers/ Tous les deux ont deux chiffres.
- Both have one tens/Chaque nombre a une dizaine.
- One can count by 5 up to ten and fifteen/ On peut compter par 5 jusqu'à 10 et 15.
How are they different?/Comment sont les nombres
différents?
- The numbers have different ones./Les unités sont différentes.
- One can count by 2 up to 10, but not up to 15./On peut compter par 2 jusqu'à 10, pas jusqu'à 15.
- One can count by 3 up to 15, but not up to 10./On peut compter par 3 jusqu'à 15, pas jusqu'à 10.
- 15 is greater than 10./15 est plus que 10.
Wow! We have real mathematicians in class!

On apprend en jouant!

Our class likes to play math games. They are a great warm-up before our math activities. I put some of them on the Math page of this blog. Pleas feel free to have a look and ... play. It will also be a good practice of French for your child.
Here's an example of a math game that we play in class this week;
QUI SUIS - JE?
Je suis un nombre.
J'ai des dizaines(D) et des unités(U).
D < U D > U
Qui suis - je?
When your child gives you an answer, ask him/her to give you his/her reasoning. Have fun!