Chers famillies de Division 6,
This week, students are continuing their learning in many different subject areas. In Oral Language, they are learning and reviewing how to read and pronounce key French letter combinations such as é, è, in, on, ch and s pronounced at z. Students are applying these sounds during guided reading sessions about 2-3 times per week. I challenge students with more difficult books (at their "instructional level" ) and provide them before, during and after reading strategies to help them understand what they are reading.
Students have been busy writing and illustrating a short story entitled "Mes vacances d'été" (my summer holidays). We are using these sentences, as well as the dictée sentence, to learn how to identify parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns.
In Math, Grade 2's with Mme Rolston are continuing to learn their number sense. On Tuesday, they will be graphing the question:
What is your family eating for Thanksgiving? Mme Rolston has requested that you please discuss
your food traditions with your children. If you don't celebrate
Canadian Thanksgiving, that will be a category of the graph too and
students can report they will be eating "a regular supper". In Grade 3, with the help of manipulates, student are learning about place value up to a thousand, and learning to read large numbers in French and English. I encourage you to practice this at home. For example, how do we say 5, 302? Or you can challenge them to even larger numbers! We are also learning to break down a number. For example, 432= 400+30+2. And finally, we are continuing to practice applying the greater than, less than and equal to symbols.
In Social Studies tomorrow we have a special guest from the Native Friendship Center, Leslie McGarry. She will be visiting us and sharing local knowledge of her culture through storytelling. She will also be guiding us in the museum for our first field trip on Tuesday, October 13th. Today I sent and email about the details of this trip. If you did not receive this email, please contact me at egarcin at sd61.bc.ca and I can add you to our parent/guardian contact list.
As part of our environmental studies and in combination with art, students made bird feeders with recycled milk jugs. These will be coming home this week. Please make sure they are hung outside, sheltered away from the rain to avoid the seeds from getting wet. The contents are a wild bird seed mix, which can be purchased in pet stores and most grocery stores.
In PE, students have been learning to do endurance running. Conserving energy and maintaining a steady pace are key to a strong and healthy heart!
Please note there will be no school on Monday, October 12th. See you on Tuesday October 13th for our field trip to the museum. By the way, I am looking for 4 adult volunteers. Please contact me if you can join us for the day, many thanks!
Have a wonderful week everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!
Mme Garcin