Ma communauté

Today, we wrapped up My Community unit by creating booklets about places and people that we see in our communities. During the unit, students learned about maps and floor plans; places that can be found in a community; professions and trades that are essential for a community well being . We also talked about how to keep places where we live clean and safe.
Please feel free to ask your child about what he or she learned in class.

Homework Song

http://youtu.be/bChrAwLzoSo.

If you do not see Youtube video in this post, please follow the link to listen to the song.

Apps for Practising Fractions

Here are two apps that could help students practise fractions at home.

April Scholastic Orders

Thank you for your April Scholastic orders. They have been submitted to Scholastic Canada this week. We are expecting them to arrive next week.

Measurement Tests Are Going Home Today.

Please discuss the test with your child, sign it, and send back to class tomorrow.

Math Project Presentation

Students were very proud and excited to present their projects in class yesterday. All of them did a good job. Students talked about different attributes to measure (e.g., mass, capacity, length, area, etc.). They explained how they did that and what the results were. Those will be the expectations for today test. We also discussed strong and weak points of the presentation: organization of data on the poster, roles distributions during working on the project and presenting it. Feel free to ask your child about this activity.

Math Project in Room 111

We are wrapping up our Measurement Unit. The project "Je mesure mon ami" engages students in revising the concept of measuring and comparing. As a group, they choose a friend, trace his/her body on a piece of chart paper, and discuss all possible measurements they can take. By now, students know how to measure length, area, mass, capacity, temperature, time, value. They have been working on the project for two days. Today is the day to present their team work.

Social Studies

Students have been learning how to read maps. Now they know North, South, West, and East. This fun activity would help them review the concept at home.

MEASUREMENTS

This is what students are learning about how to measure objects. Ask your first grader what this chart is about. Also, feel free to have a math talk with your child while measuring different things at home, e.g., pans, jars, shoe boxes, etc. Ask him/her to compare objects, measure them with different units, estimate. Problem solving might be involved too. E.g., To fill this jar you need 3 cups of water. How many cups of water will you need to fill 5 jars?

French Summer Camps in Toronto

Alliance Française de Toronto (ages 5-11) alliance-francaise.ca
Camp Baby Point En Français (ages 5-10) FrenchSouthWest.com
Camp Tournesol (bussing is offered) camptournesol.ca
École Napoléon (ages 5-14) ecolenapoleon.com
French Immersion Summer Camp (ages 3-8) thebusygenie.com
Gotta Love That French...Activity Club (ages 5-14) helenenicole.com
La Muse (ages 4-12) studiolamuse.blogspot.ca/
Harbourfront (ages 8-12) harbourfrontcentre.com/camps/summer/
For more camps in Quebec and beyond, check cpfont.on.ca under “French Resources”.
6. FSLAC Meetings – All Welcome – New April Date!

Parents, students, trustees, teachers and staff are invited to attend and participate in FSLAC meetings. Meetings start at 7 pm at the TDSB offices at 5050 Yonge St., ground floor. Meeting notices, reports, newsletters and minutes are posted on the TDSB website: tdsb.on.ca/fslac .
Upcoming meetings are: April 15, May 23 and June 25, 2013.

April Neswletter

Yes, it is spring! And we are in April already.

For our class, April is a Month of Guided Reading. We continue our Literacy Pathways and keep working on developing decoding and comprehension skills in reading.

Children enjoy working in a small group setting with me. They look for the clues to reveal the point of the author, to comprehend what the author wanted to say and what the story is about. They love to demonstrate their decoding skills. They learn how to check if they read right by asking themselves: ‘Does it sound good?’, ‘Does it make sense?’, ‘Is it written like I read?’.I encourage them to ask the same questions when they read at home. The Guided Reading sessions started after March Break and will continue into June, when the students will be tested for the level of reading that they achieved through this school year. Your child's reading level needs to be between 8 and 12 at that point .

Please ask your child about the programme and their experiences in this content. As well, I will make every effort to inform you of what will be going on during the sessions and the leveling progress, via your child’s agenda.

In Math, students will be finishing the unit on measurement (mass, capacity, time, temperature, length, area). A test is coming. Stay tuned. Also, in April, they will explore the concept of fractions and practise their calculations skills (addition/subtraction).

In Social Studies, we are half way through My Community Unit. We are learning how to read simple maps. Next, we will be talking about places in our community, professions and people engaged in them.

Please remind your child to speak French at all times at school.