Tonight's movie night is NOT FOR US! Grade 6 only I'm afraid, sorry about the confusion.
Tomorrow morning we have our second-last library period. The final one will be on the last day of school. Please search high and low for missing books. I have explained to students that they should return the slip with the books, or write a note on the slip if the books really cannot be found. We're definitely missing a lot of white books too, so please send back everything you can find. Thanks so much!
Well, the kids have been learning to tell time quite quickly. We are experts at telling the time when it is something o'clock ("Il est 9 heures."), and we're getting good at telling the time when it's half past the hour as well ("Il est 9h et demi."). In fact, we can hardly get any other work done because the clock (which nobody looked at for most of the year) is now of great interest, and children are constantly telling me what time it is! This is great! Please ask your children what time it is constantly! If it is not on the hour or half past, they can either tell you what hour we are in (e.g., it's after 5 o'clock) or you can help them count the minutes one-by-one. This is an important first step - counting minutes one-by-one - because kids need to learn that the big numbers on the clock represent the HOURS, not the MINUTES! This is beyond grade 1 though, so it's a bonus if you work on this with them.
In science, we have added some important internal organs to our life-sized paper people. Ask your scientist what body parts we glued on today and see if they can show you where those parts are in their own body!
Tomorrow I will send home a reminder about our field trip. Please look for it so that children are prepared with everything they will need for a successful Friday!
That's it for now,
Tamara