RSVPs for our end-of-year open house are due tomorrow!!! Please try to get them to me as soon as possible so that I can reply to the parents that are flexible. Some students took home an extra form today - if you have misplaced yours you can always reply via email (the info is all contained in an earlier post). Thanks!
Another fun event is happening this Friday. If you haven't heard, Dewson is hosting a Volunteer Breakfast to thank all the parents that have contributed to school life this year. So many of you have helped out on trips, in class, or even behind the scenes. This breakfast is for YOU! Please come and enjoy. There will be a little thank you card waiting for you.
Friday - 8am - in the gym
Yesterday, hopefully your scientist told you about the results of our seed experiment. Most of our seeds sprouted a little root! Students brought home their little seed babies and they can be planted in your garden and will hopefully produce a few delicious peas! Either way, make sure these get unpacked or they will start to smell funny...
In math, we've finished painting and labelling our 3-D sculptures and have moved on to probability. Probability is a fun way to end the year because it involved a lot of games! Today we learned 5 important terms that we will use throughout the unit. They are:
impossible
certain
probable
improbable
possible
Ask your mathematician to give you an example of each one (e.g., C'est improbable qu'il va neiger aujourd'hui. C'est possible... mais pas probable!)It's amazing how often we can use these terms in regular conversation if we pay attention to it!
In writing, we have all managed to work through the long list of revisions - everyone had 10 things to check for in their work, and a partner did the same, before I gave all the stories a final once over. Ask your editor what types of things they had to look for and correct in their own work! Now we are working on good copies. This is the easiest part of the story-writing process because it's just copying from one paper to another - we just have to watch out to not repeat or make new mistakes!
Words of the Week... are a bit different!
For the final
month of grade 1, we are going to focus on some basic grammar rules and verbs.
This week we are going to solidify our knowledge of “j’ai” and “je suis”. We
already had these words in previous dictées, so the spelling should be a
review. We are now trying to use these words correctly in sentences. It helps
to start orally - we usually can tell if something sounds right when we hear
it.
Your student’s job is to come up with 4 more sentences for each sentence
starter. Have your student write them in their cahier or on another piece of paper and show me
their work next week!