Chers familles,
Our last week before the holiday's is an exciting one! Our activities are all about making connections. In the mornings we are doing French Language Arts during which we use our word wall of high fluency dictée words to write in our journals. Last week, grade 2's wrote a letter to Santa. All students have also written cards with thoughtful comments and drawings. In Oral Language we are practicing by discussing the different ways we celebrate holidays. We are also reading daily in small groups while talking about our reading strategies and looking for high fluency words. Students have completed their phonics booklets and are asked to apply their letter-sound combinations to all their reading activities. Grade 2 students are continuing phonics with Madame Rolston once a week.
In grade 3 English Language Arts this week we are reviewing possessive nouns we learned about last week. Then we are going to discuss and find examples of homonyms (2 words that are pronounced the same, but their meanings and spelling are different). For example, two, to and too. This week, we will also continue our novel study of Stuart Little, by EB White. Each student has their own copy of this chapter book while Madame is modeling to read with expression by using the punctuation, picture clues and other reading aloud strategies before and during reading. After reading, students do a visualizing activity to help express their comprehension of the text. At the end of the week, students are asked to bring their term 1 English phonics activity booklet. If it is not finished, students are asked to complete and return it during after the holidays.
In Math, grade 2's are doing addition word problems. Grade 3's will continue to explore multiplication up to 10. So far students have learned strategies for multiplying by 0, 1, 2, 4, 9 and 10. This week we will look at the patterns when multiplying by 5 and continue to explore the multiplication table. A copy will be coming home shortly and students are encouraged to begin memorizing this table.
In the afternoons, students are busy practicing, performing and watching our Primary and Intermediate Holiday Concerts. Please come and join us on Wednesday from 1-2pm in the Quadra gym for our performance in the Primary Concert. On Tuesday, students are asked to wear any combination of red, white, green and black. Some of our grade 3 choir students will also be performing on Thursday from 1-2pm during the Intermediate Concert.
Friday is pajama day! We will have a fun-filled day with pancakes in the morning followed by a movie and popcorn In the afternoon we will do some basketball in the gym and have an afternoon of open choice arts and crafts.
See you back at school on Monday January 4th. Have a wonderful and restful holiday!
Mme Garcin