I now have all the details of next Thursday's concert. Students are asked to wear dark on the bottom and white on the top. They should arrive at 6:00 pm and meet me in our classroom. They can leave their coats and belongings here. At this point you are free to go find your seat in the gym (trust me, you'll want to get right on that). At 6:15 I will walk the students over the music room. If you arrive later than 6:15, please have your singer go directly there. The grade 1 choir is up first and the concert begins right at 6:30. After our group is finished performing, I will bring our class back to Room 211 and babysit until you are able to come collect (no charge!). Please do not leave the gym early, it will not be a long concert - I believe there are only 3 groups performing - and everyone deserves to have a great audience. We anticipate that you'll be out of here by 7:15 at the latest.
I'd also like to make you aware of another special event, even though it's not for over a month. Our first field trip (to the High Park Nature Centre) will take place on Wednesday January 6th. Information and a permission form will be coming home soon. I know that many families plan trips over the holidays and sometimes miss a few days of school before or after. If you have not yet made plans, please take this into consideration so that your child can come with us on this fun excursion.
Tonight your child has a note from the Me to We club - I believe they are selling bracelets as a fundraiser. Those forms, if you wish to order, are due December 11th.
Today was a very full day in Salle 211. In the morning Mlle L prepared a science experiment for us to do involving whether various materials would sink or travel across water. This links up with our next science unit on Structures and Materials, which we will begin shortly, but the real goal for this experiment was to practice making predictions and then doing a test to find the result (but not changing our original prediction!). Students managed themselves very well at the 5 different centres. Ask your scientist which materials survived the float test.
In the afternoon, we did another set of centres, this time around patterning. The centres included making colour patterns and naming them, continuing a growing pattern, answering a question that involves a shrinking pattern (we worked on these kinds of patterns last week), and finally, using a scale to show how an equals sign means that both sides of an equation are the same, or equal to each other. Ask your student to tell you about their favourite centre!
Here are tomorrow's Words of the Week
(I switched week 13 and 14, in case you're keeping track)
This is one of my personal favourites. I think ‘oi’ is a fun sound to say. In English,
it sounds just like ‘wa’, as in “water”. At first, children sometimes
use the letter a, or wa when trying to
write this sound. That’s just fine, they are similar. From now on, we’ll help
them listen a little closer and remind them that there’s an even better way to
write that sound. Our sound poster in class has a picture of a bird and the
word oiseau. If you’re doing rule
posters at your house, looking at this one is an immediate reminder of what the
sound looks like.
oiseau, froid, moi, toi, voiture
Bonus words: roi, loi