Happy Summer!

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for a fantastic year. It has been a great school year, which is largely in part to the role that parents and caregivers play at home. I am very grateful to have had such a wonderful group of students, as well as their parents who support them at home this year.
Thank you very much for the thoughtful gift from Cabela's. I am looking forward to picking out some new camping and fishing gear for the summer.
Have a safe and happy summer, and don't hesitate to drop by to say hello if you are in the school next fall!
Mme Katherine Ollerhead

I also wanted to share the link to another blog I will be keeping over the summer of my summer reading. Most of the books have been recommended by this year's students: www.mmessummerreading2013.blogspot.com
 

le 24-26 juin

Just a few reminders for this short last week of school:
-The Year End Barbeque is on Monday night at 5:30 pm, and the new mural will be unveiled at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!
-Tuesday morning at 9am we will have our Farewell assembly
-Tuesday at 11am (after morning recess) we will walk over to Kinsmen park. We will return to school by bus at 2:30pm. Students will need a lunch, a towel, a swimsuit, sunscreen and a water bottle as well as a backpack to carry it all.
-Wednesday will be the last day of school. We will spend Wednesday morning cleaning up the last of our things in the classroom, and Wednesday afternoon after Phys. Ed. (1:35pm), we will have some free time. If you wish to send a healthy treat, you are more than welcome to do so.
-Progress reports will be sent home on Wednesday afternoon.

I will be collecting sacs bleus starting on Monday, so it will just be the agenda coming to and from school for this week. Thank you!

I will be at the school all day Thursday and Friday morning if for any reason you wish to contact me.

le 17-21 juin

Just a few reminders for this upcoming week:
-Monday afternoon will be playday, weather permitting. Please wear comfortable shoes, sunscreen, hat, etc.
-Order forms for the BBQ on June 24 went home last week. Please send back by Wednesday, June 19th.
-Friday is our school swim day at George Ward Pool. We will be leaving the school at 9:15am and returning at 2:30pm. Students need a bathing suit, towel, and a lunch for this day. Also, they should be wearing sunscreen and a hat. Parents are welcome to join us, but will need to provide their own transportation, as there will be no room on the buses.

Also, there are still some students who have not returned their Home Reading Books or library books. Please have a look around your home for any books that belong to the school. Thank you!

le 10-14 juin

Just a few reminders for this week:
-Mme away Monday morning for meetings
-Monday afternoon we are off to the Public library. Please bring your library card.
-Library on Tuesday - all books are due back this week. Please send back any school library books you may have at home.
-Home Reading Books are due on Thursday. This week will be the last week for Home Reading Books.
-Waste Free Lunch day on Thursday
-Playday on Thursday afternoon. Please wear comfortable shoes, sunscreen, a hat, etc, as we will be outside from 1-2:30
-Mme away Friday

I would also like to ask all families to have a look around at home for any books that may belong to the school, Home Reading Books, books on CD, class books, etc, and please send them back.

Pike Lake

We had an awesome day at Pike Lake! We left school first thing to drive out on the bus. When we got there we mini-golfed in teams of 4. Three students won a free round of golf! We went for a nature hike. We saw lots of caterpillars, some tadpoles, and even a snake! We had a delicious hot dog, watermelon and rice krispie square lunch, then we played on the playground before we went pond dipping. We caught a predaceous water beetle, some leeches, some minnows, a bunch of snails, and some freshwater shrimp.
Thank you to all the parents who came along and sent rice krispie treats!

Merci Alexa et Jody!

Yesterday's trip to the Children's Festival was arranged for by Alexa and Jody. Alexa is celebrating her 2nd anniversary of her stem cell transplant.

Merci pour la belle journee!

le 3 - 7 juin

Busy week ahead! Here are some reminders for the upcoming week:
-Children's Festival on Monday afternoon. Students should be prepared to walk there and back.
-Scholastic is due on Tuesday
-Library on Tuesday. This will be our last time to sign books out from the school library.
-Pike Lake on Wednesday. Students need to have comfortable walking shoes, be dressed for the weather (sweater, sunscreen, bug spray, etc), bring a waterbottle and/or other drinks they may want, as well as any snacks besides the 2 hot dogs, Rice Krispie square, and watermelon that will be provided for lunch.
-Mme is away on Thursday and Friday
-Crazy Hair Day on Thursday
-Assembly Thursday morning
-Home Reading Books due on Friday
-Final Band concert on Friday
-Raise a Reader picnic on Friday. Parents are encouraged to meet their students on the lawn to read together at 11:15am. A Subway lunch will be provided.

Please send back the note to let me know you are aware of the Pike Lake trip as soon as possible.
I will also be sending a note home on Monday about the public library trip. Please sign and return.

Ecriture persuasive

Over the past week or so, we have been discussing persuasive writing. As a class we have written a short paragraph in an attempt to persuade another class to read a book we all liked. I thought I would post it for you to enjoy.

Children's Festival

On Monday June 3rd we are going to the Childrens Festival. We will be walking over after lunch (12:45pm) and taking in a show (The Mat Velvet and Charlie Show - in French) at 1:45pm. We will walk back to school before the end of the day. Students will need comfortable walking shoes, and sunscreen. There is a note being sent home today that needs to be signed and returned to school.
I will need 2 parent volunteers who can come along on this outing. If you are able to come along, please let me know.
Merci!

Phys. Ed. in June

As the gym roof is undergoing upgrades, the gym will be off limits for the remainder of the year. Students are asked to be prepared for Phys. Ed. outside. (Good shoes, sunscreen, bug spray, etc). our class has gym at the end of the day on Mondays (50 min), right after lunch on Wednesdays (50 min), and first thing Friday mornings (25 min).

Upcoming class trips

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help out on our upcoming class trips. I have enough parents for Pike Lake, but I am still looking for 1 or 2 others for both the library and the Kinsmen Park outings.
I am also looking for a few other volunteers who can send a 9x13 tray of RiceKrispie treats for the Pike Lake trip.

Also, for the class trip to the library, I have forms available for students who do not have a library card and wish to get one. If you would like a copy, you can either visit : http://www.saskatoonlibrary.ca/sites/default/files/File/UsingTheLibrary/AllAboutBorrowing/LSCBorrowerRegistration04_13.pdf and print a copy and send it to the school, or email or write a note saying you would like a copy sent home. If you send them back to school I will fax them in so students will have a card ready and waiting when we get there. If your child already has a library card, please send it with him or her to school on that day.

le 27-31 mai

Here we are, the last week of May! Just a few reminders for this week:
-Mme is away at PD all day Monday
-Library Monday. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones
-Data sheets went home on Thursday last week. Please complete both sides and sign, and retrn as soon as possible. Mrs. Roach will have a prize for the first class to bring them all back!
-Booster Juice treat orders are due back on Wednesday. Please send exact change.
-Friday we will be going on a little walk along the trail between the Broadway and University bridges to celebrate Trails Day. We will go right after afternoon recess (2:40) and will return before the end of the day. Parents are more than welcome to join us.
-Home Reading Books are due on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. Again this week we will be working with a poem, and the test will be the poem with blanks to be filled in. Here is this week's poem. There will be a copy sent home on Monday, as well as a sheet that has the work to be done with it. Homework is due Friday morning at 9am.

Ma famille

Je suis une fille

Qui aime la vanille

Je suis un garçon

Qui aime le poisson

Je suis une maman

Qui aime les marrants

Je suis un papa

Qui aime le chocolat

Je suis une mamie

Qui aime le riz

Je suis un papy

Qui aime la vache qui rit

Celiane Ferrin

Notre derniere affiche de MIMI

We have just finished adding the words to our very last MIMI poster. Here it is:

le 21-24 mai

I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing long weekend. Here are some reminders for this week:

-Library today. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Spring Photo orders due back on Wednesday, May 22.
-Lockdown drill Thursday morning at 10:15am
-Home Reading Books due on Friday
-Dictee on Friday. There will only be 2 more dictees for the year. The last two dictees will follow the model for what dictees may look like in grade 3. Students will have a poem in their agendas this week. There will be a sheet that goes with it for activities that they may choose from to study. On Friday, they will receive a copy of the poem with some blanks. I will read the poem and they will fill in the blanks. Here is the poem:

Bleu

Bleu

Je veux !

Partout

dans le ciel,

dans la mer,

le matin

sur mon pain !

Demain je mangerai

de la confiture

BLEUE.

La vie en couleurs,

Danielle Bouchery

MIMI #5

This week we have been talking lots about the ocean, sea life and marine animals as an introduction to our last MIMI poster. Yesterday I brought a couple of artifacts for the students to look at and touch. I brought un oursin (a sea urchin), and un os de baleine (a whale bone).
Here they are:

L'oursin is about 6cm in diameter.

 

Now that we have read some books about the sea and ocean, today we will look at our poster and label it, giving us a new set of words to study.

Life cycles

We have been looking at various animals and how their life cycles are the same and different. We learned about animals that change dramatically through their life (caterpillar to butterfly), and we learned about animals that are ovipare (oviparous - hatched from eggs), and animals that are vivipare (vivparous - live birth). Yesterday we each got an animal and went on the computers to research its life cycle. We had to find the answers to two questions: Is it ovipare or vivipare? and Does it undergo la metamorphose or non?
When we came back to class we sorted our animals into the 4 groups. Here is our work:

StarLab

Yesterday morning we got to visit StarLab, which was very cool. We learned about some of the stars in the sky, as well as some of the stories that go with some of the constellations. What a great opportunity!

A la ferme!

We had a great day at the farm yesterday. We saw cows, chickens, sheep and pigs.

Slightly blurry 5 week old piglets.

Les poules et un coq

Un mouton et deux agneaux