Last two days

THURSDAY: PLease have your child bring these things to school for Thursday: Flashlight Blanket if you want to send a smaller one Your food for potluck Dress in your pyjamas Doantion gift FRIDAY: Gift for exchange Music and or costume for Talent show Donation gift

Hour of Code

Please open in Itunes if the video is sideways.

SANTA STORE

SANTA STORE IS OPEN AGAIN THIS YEAR. SEND A TOONIE FOR EACH GIFT YOUR CHILD WILL WANT TO BUY. THIS YEAR THE ORGANIZERS DECIDED THAT THE STUDENTS COULD BUY FOR: MOM, DAD, STEP MOM AND STEP DAD. OUR GROUP GETS TO SHOP ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17TH @ 12:10. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY DAY AND TIME THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GO AND BUY. THERE WILL BE NO VIEWING BEFORE WE GO TO BUY. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILD HAS HIS/HER MONEY AT SCHOOL AS THEY WILL NOT BE PHONING HOME FOR MONEY.

Dictée December 11, 2015

Spelling December 18, 2015

Dictée December 18, 2015

Spelling December 11, 2015

Dictée 18 Décembre

Dictée 18 Décembre
     

     1.   journée

2.   remplie

3.   papaye

4.   finalement

5.   bizarre

6.   intriguée

7.   s'arrête

8.   continue

9.   disparaît

10.               l'ombre

11.               connaître

12.               réjouit

13.               conversation

14.               aussitôt

15.               entière

16.               seaux

17.               Christophe

18.               enceintes

19.               maçon

20.               aperçoivent

Arrêter

j’arrête

tu arrêtes

il/elle arrête

nous arrêtons

vous arrêtez

 ils/elles arrêtent

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

By now your child should be done reading the novel "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". There are activities that were assigned two weeks ago and that need to be handed in. Please ask your child if he/she has done so. These will be going home Monday evening if they are not completed by then.

Working on something in our class!

Advent celebration December 14@ 8:45 am in the gym

December letter/reminders

December 9, 2015

Dear Parents,

         Thank you all of you for the incredible turnout last night for our Advent celebration at the Hillcrest Apostolic Church.   We are extremely proud of our students.  They were great role models for the rest of the students there and we are sure that they will continue doing so.  Thank you for the support you show us at school.  Our students are growing towards a more positive direction every day. We feel that has everything to do with the communication we have with you and how we all work together for the children. 

I just sent a “remind” text with this message yesterday and I am in emailing it as well as I didn't want anyone to miss the message.  Each child in the class will be participating in our Advent Celebration Weeks 3 & 4 in the gym on Monday, December 14 @ 8:45. The celebration sheet is on the blog in case your child forgets his/her copy at school.  If your child will not be here on December 14th, please let us know right away.

** I do not want to harp on this gift exchange too much, but I need to know if you are unable to send a gift for the gift exchange next Friday.  If your child is female, send a female or neutral gift, if he is male send a male/neutral gift. If you cannot send one, please send a message ASAP, so I can go out and pick something up as we want everyone to receive a gift Friday morning.**

Your child will also tell you that we have decided to have a pot luck lunch on Thursday, December 17 at noon in the lab. There are some children who have already volunteered to bring gluten free/egg free food. Please check with your child to see if he/she was one of those students. We are suggesting they bring food that is a tradition in your family or that is from your family’s culture/background.  The students are studying this in French, English and Social Studies, so we thought we would go one step further.  PLEASE REMEMBER THAT NOTHING YOU SEND TO SCHOOL CAN HAVE ANY TYPES OF NUTS.

The school is hosting a talent show that Friday afternoon.  If your child auditioned and made the list, they should be practicing for that as well.  Please make sure that they have all their props/music they need for that afternoon.

*** ​As you may or may not know, we are the juice/milk recyclers for our school. This is a smelly job, but it does have some perks.  As a treat for doing all this work for our school, I am buying our students in our classroom KFC for lunch on December 15.  Please send a juice and snacks as usual that day as I will not be providing that.***

There are still some people having issues with finding the dictée/spelling tests on the blog.  Once you are on the blog go to September on the right side of the page.  Click on it. Scroll down to find English or French Language Arts. Click on it. Scroll down until you find the date you are looking for. This should take you to the list you are looking for. If you still have trouble, please come in and see us and we will be more than happy to help you.

Hot lunch forms are due today.  If you have any at home and you still want to order, please let me know via email and I will send it in today and you can send the money tomorrow.  This is the hot lunch for Friday, December 18^th.
We are still having dictée and spelling tests this week and next week.  Please have your child explain which spelling strategies they are working on this week.  They should be studying this at least 10-15 minutes per night along with their multiplication and division facts.

We do have many things going on in the last week of school. It is going to be busy and tiring all at the same time.  We would like this week to run as smooth as possible, so please let us know if there are any concerns.

Mme Ethier

Mlle Smith (Intern)

Rubric for Country Project

FLASHLIGHT FRIDAY VIDEOS

WATCH THESE!

FLASHLIGHT FRIDAY PICTURES

We sure had a great half hour of reading. We will be doing this again soon! For some of these pictures, the faces are a little blurry

She's back and she would like a name!

Reminder

If you are looking for Dictée or Spelling, remember, you have to go to September on the right hand side of this page. Click on it and choose the subject you are looking for: English Language Arts(Spelling words) French Language Arts (Dictée words).

Christmas letter

Advent song #1

Prayer rap "We pray to our God" created by yours truly, équipe 5e année!

Round dance time!

TRI-CONFERENCE TIMES REGISTRATION LIVE!

Apologies parents that this letter did not come home on Friday, Tri-conferencing times are up to picks this morning! Please book your times ASAP!

Homework reminder during long weekend: Due Nov. 12th

This is a reminder of homework due upon returning to school November 12th:

1) Ready to present French poem and creative component of "Au champs d'honneur" (Please see evaluation table below, poem does NOT have to be memorized!)

2) Two pages double sided of Math practice on estimation

3) Good copy of Goal Seating sheet for Tri-conferencing

4) There will still be a weekly dictée and spelling test this week: Thursday the practice and Friday test day.

Please let me know if you have any questions these next few days at carolina.smith@htcsd.ca

Poem Presentation Nov 12th: Au champs d'honneur- Evaluation table

Hi Parents,

The students know that I am going to post the evaluation table for their french presentation on Thursday Novemeber 12th for reference when practising at home.  We made it together as a class but this is the edited version. Student know they do NOT need to memorize this poem. If they have any questions about the presentation please email me at carolina.smith@htcsd.ca.

*Please remind them this presentation is to be done in FRENCH and they are to recite the poem <<Au champs d'honneur>> as well as explain their creative part of the presentation.

*If they have chosen to do a PREZI, please make sure we can access it through their user name and password on our computer.

*If they have made a POWER POINT, please make sure it is properly saved on a USB to present from our computers in the classroom.

Today's highlight: Watching the now Prime Minister Trudeau swearing-in cabinet ceremony!

Reminders of the week:

• Hot lunch tomorrow for those who ordered them!
• Please send layers of clothing with your children to school for recess. Many do not have appropriate clothing. 
• The math quiz will be coming home today, I encourage parents to take a look at it. I have decided to void the first two questions as there was a lot of confusion and we now have discussed it in class together. 
• Mission Fair money due tomorrow! 
• Please respond to Mme Ethier or Mlle Smith if you are or can not bring cupcakes/cookies/cake for our Cake Walk Friday. We prefer if they can be sent to school Thursday so we know how many more we will need to bring. 
• We are starting a circuit training unit in gym this week! 

MISSION FAIR INFORMATION

Phy. Ed.: Quiz: Tomorrow Oct 23! We have finished our cooperation unit in gym. The students have been informed that they cannot necessarily study for as it will be open ended questions about the concepts of Leadership, Cooperation and Sportsmanship that we have been focusing on these past three weeks.

Math: Quiz Tuesday Oct 26th: covering lessons 1-4 in the Math textbook: 

Tomorrow the students will receive a package of practice questions along with the answers to study at home. Please encourage them to study and finish the practice questions. They will receive 1 bonus mark per sheet that they have completed, corrected themselves in pen and shown me (there are 4 sheets total).

Weekly updates:

"Dress-up as your future career" day this Friday!

Spelling strategies due this Friday!

Math questions pg. 51: 4-6  due tomorrow Oct 22nd.

Please remember to check your child's agenda nightly as they take the time to write down important messages every day for you to read. Initialing the agenda is a great way for me to know that they are being read at home and please feel free to write me any notes via their agenda as well as I check them daily.

Homework tonight:

 Many students have up to and including Ch.9 questions in Pit Pony due tomorrow as we are wrapping this novel up so please check with your child if they have homework tonight!

Don't forget 7:45 Breakfast and books in the library tomorrow morning!

3 WEEK BLOCK FOR MLLE SMITH

As of Monday, October 19th, Mlle Smith will be teaching all classes and subjects for three weeks. She will be in charge of teaching, discipline, marking and complete charge of the students in our class. If you have any questions or concerns, please email carolina.smith@htcsd.ca and cc myself at lisa.ethier@htcsd.ca.  You could also call us at school at: 306 694-4044.

HOT LUNCH

This HOT LUNCH is due on Tuesday, October 20th.  Please have all money and order forms here by that day.  The food will be coming from Boston Pizza.  We will enjoy this lunch on Thursday, October 22.

Rap 5

Dictée words Oct 13-16

1.   facilement 2.   concernant 3.   bouger* 4.   humainement 5.   compliqué 6.   poser 7.   un système d’alarme 8.   choquée 9.   hurler 10. une sirène *bouger: je bouge tu bouge il/elle bouge nous bougons vous bougez ils/elles bougent

Prayer Rap 4

Prayer rap 3

Prayer rap 2

Prayer Rap1

DIVISION MAD MINUTES PRACTICE SHEETS

FEEL FREE TO PRACTICE THIS AS OFTEN AS YOU LIKE. ONE SHEET PER NIGHT IS WHAT WE ARE REQUESTING. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO BE ABLE TO GET AS MANY RIGHT ANSWERS IN ONE MINUTE AS POSSIBLE.

MATH MULTIPLICATION PRACTICE SHEETS

FEEL FREE TO PRACTICE THIS AS OFTEN AS YOU LIKE. ONE SHEET PER NIGHT IS WHAT WE ARE REQUESTING. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO BE ABLE TO GET AS MANY RIGHT ANSWERS IN ONE MINUTE AS POSSIBLE.

Spelling for October 13--16

New Spelling for the week

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByD2a2pGBogOVTQ0NVJjMG5YZ28/view?usp=sharing

Homework - Oct 8

Hi parents,

Tonight the students have Babouche comprehension questions from Ch. 7 to finish for correcting tomorrow.

We have our Dictée spelling test tomorrow. They need to show that they used at least one of the spelling strategy sheets tomorrow to prove they have studied outside of school and to motivate out-of-the-box ideas for studying words.

Adopt-a-school is over this Saturday at 11pm so please don't forget to Adopt St. Margaret's once a day!

I will post the homework for the long weekend tomorrow.

Thank you for the home support!

Mlle Smith

Printable file of the Spelling Strategies sheets

Here is a PDF printable file of the Spelling Strategies sheets if you wish to print more copies at home! Please email me if you are unable to access these worksheets, thanks!

Spelling Strategies

Hi parents,

Starting this week, I am sending the students home with a plastic slip in their orange duotang called the Spelling Strategy booklet with worksheets to help them become familiar with different strategies to study their dictée words. This can of course be used for spelling words in english. I made the sheets bilingual if parents wish to help their child's studying.

I will be doing examples in class of each strategy as the weeks come and there are extra photocopies of each strategy sheet available in the classroom to restock their plastic slip. I explained to students that they must show me at least 1 spelling strategy completed from the Spelling Strategy Booklet by Friday before their dictée test.

Thank you for encouraging this practice at home!

Mlle Smith

Dictée words: week of Oct 5

1.     japper 2.   génie 3.   messieurs 4.   mouffettes 5.   la gorge 6.   morceaux 7.   poubelles 8.   comprendre* 9.   se chicaner 10.   diapositives *comprendre: je comprends tu comprends il/elle comprend nous comprenons vous comprenez ils/elles comprennent