le 28 octobre

Hi Parents

*** Please ensure children have mitts, tuques and winter boots. It was a very chilly morning recess and there were a lot of frozen fingers and toes.***

Our new letter is J, please have your child show you the action and the sound.

Today students made up their own pattern in Math using objects, actions, drawings or sounds. We filmed each child presenting them and in the coming weeks will upload them into Iris. We'll keep you posted!

Mr Trevor has a blogger account: https://mtrevorphysed.blogspot.com/

He has also made a video about how to tie up your shoes! Definitely worth watching if tying shoes is still tricky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNvxidABqQA&feature=youtu.be

I am hoping you can speak with your child to encourage him/her to speak more French. Many of them are defaulting to speaking completely in English instead of using the words and sentence starters they do know. At this point, it is an expectation that they do the following only in French:
- ask to drink water (puis-je boire de l'eau?)
- go to the bathroom (puis-j'aller aux toilettes?)
- say "how do you say?" (comment dit-on?)
- ask for help (de l'aide s'il te plait)
- tell me what they did last night/yesterday (hier, je suis allée)

Thank you so much for your support with this, we want students to become proficient speakers and be comfortable taking risks in speaking and participating. In the skill progressions it goes listening to/understanding French -> Speaking French -> Reading in French -> Writing in French. It's so important as it's the foundation for all future skills. In the coming weeks will will start doing a daily self-assessment that will be coming home each night indicating how much French they spoke.

Important dates:
-Tomorrow: library - please return books. Late slips have been sent home with a few students
-Thursday: Halloween (please refer to Mme Brinson's weekly update for costume guidelines)
-Thursday: Photo orders due
-Thursday: volunteers still needed for Halloween centers from 10-11