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

Dancing Birds

When we had the chicks hatch, we learned a little bit about the parts of birds. We also learned how male and female birds are different. We discussed how the females' job is to keep the eggs in the nest safe, and how that affects how birds are different colours. We learned that male birds need bright colours and interesting tricks to attract female birds, but that female birds need to be camouflage to stay hidden in the nest. This morning we watched a little clip of some interesting dances that some birds do to attract a partner.

le 13 - 16 mai

Here are some reminders for this week:
-Library on Monday
-Field trip to the U of S farm on Monday. Please bring a lunch as we are leaving at 12:25pm.
-Hot lunch orders due on Tuesday at 9am
-StarLab presentation on Wednesday
-Hot lunch will be on Thursday
-Home Reading Books due Thursday
-No dictee this week. We will be busy starting our last MIMI poster
-No school on Friday, May 17 - Planning and PD for teachers
-No school Monday, May 20th - Fete de la Reine (Victoria Day)

Have a great long weekend!

Joyeuse Fete des Meres!

Happy Mothers' Day to all! I hope everyone enjoyed the gift from their student. We dicussed a lot last week about how great our mothers are. We compiled a large list of adjectives to describe our mothers to create our gifts. Some students requested that I put the website that we used to create them on the blog so they could play with it at home, so here it is: www.wordle.net

Joyeuse Fete des Meres!

le 6 - 10 mai

Here are a few reminders for this week:
-Library on Monday. Please bring back books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Scholastic due on Thursday, May 9th.
-StarPhoenix fundraiser is still going on. If you have not already done so, please ask family and friends if they wish to subscribe. Each subscription raises $20 for our school!
-Bluegrass presentation Thursday morning in the gym.
-Home Reading Books due Friday
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be looking at the difference between et and est. The dictee for this week will be different in that I will read sentences to students and they will have to write the correct et or est. Et is the French word for and, while est is the equivalent of is. We will practice with these words all week at school, so there will be no word list coming home to practice.
-There will be a note coming home on Monday with information about our next field trip which is on Monday, May 13th in the afternoon when we will be going to the U of S farm. Students will need to bring a lunch to eat at school that day, as we are leaving school at 12:25pm. I will also require 3 or 4 parents who are able and willing to accompany us on this trip. If you interested, please let me know by way of the agenda, email, or at the school. Please note that due to space on the bus, only 3 or 4 parents can come along. Thank you!

Chick hatching video link

Hello everyone,
I was informed that the first link I included was requesting a username and password. I am posting a different one below, with the hope that it will work for everyone.
Merci!
http://video.spsd.sk.ca/uploads/OllerheadK2013430181721.AVI

Les oeufs

Yesterday we were learning about eggs. We discussed that not all eggs become chicks, only ones that are layed when there is a rooster and a hen. We looked at an egg that we eat, and learned the vocabulary for some of the parts.

Les poussins - Jour 3

We checked on the chicks again this morning, and were met with a surprise! All 12 chicks had hatched! They are still in the incubator getting dry and fluffy. Tomorrow we will get to hold them. Here are a few pictures:

Les poussins - Jour 2

Today we went and visited the eggs again, only today we could hear peeping and could see the little cracks on the eggs where the chicks are starting to hatch from. After school this evening, I was in Mme Hada's classroom and got to see one hatch! Hopefully one will hatch during the day tomorrow and we will all get to see. Here is a photo and a short video of what happened.

The chick uses his beak to peck all around the egg and then pushes out. He is really, really tired after and just lays in the incubator while he dries off and gets his energy back.

http://video.spsd.sk.ca/secure/play.aspx?videoID=f666e4f2-fd57-4267-bcf9-760dbf7e5ffe&platform=win