Le 31octobre, 2013
Chers parents,

C’est l’halloween, hé! We had a little parade in the school with Mme McCrea’s class. The children looked wonderful. Please remember to be safe trick-or- treating this evening. There is also a carnival at the school starting at 4pm. In the dossier there is a card if your child would like to also collect donations from the food bank while he or she goes trick-or-treating. We are completing our first MIMI poster. Keep reviewing and having fun with the words at home. Invite your child to teach you some new French words. I will also be sending home our first books for reading tomorrow. If you have not signed up for a time for activity conferences on Wednesday, Nov. 27th please send that in your child’s dossier, or you can call the school for a time. In November, we will also learn about Remembrance Day: Le jour de souvenir ~L’armistice. We will work on booklets that teach O’ Canada in French. If you have any old Canadian magazines or calendars that can be used to cut out pictures please send them along in your child’s dossier. The booklets will include your child’s drawings as well as collages. Check the calendar for your child’s special day. On your child's special day he or she may talk about a favourite place or family trip in Canada. Because we have fewer days in November and December some children will be sharing their special days. Thank you for your understanding. Pictures or objects of that special place in Canada on his or her special day are welcome. Merci! Mme J. Wallace

Activity conferences

lundi le 28 octobre 2013

Chers parents,

This is to inform you about activity conferences.  Kindergarten is different from Grades 1 – 8.  Although all of the other students in the school receive report cards in November, the Kindergarten students do not.    We continue to evaluate and the first report cards for Kindergarten students are in March.  We will be having activity conferences for students and their parents in November. Our activity conference evening is Wednesday November 27^th from 4pm -7:15pm.    The sign up times will include four slots.  The times indicated on the note are the start time and finish time for each grouping.  Each half hour session has four students (and their parents) in it.

There will be four activity areas/ stations where your child will demonstrate skills to you. You will have a note paper to make observations as you go.  I will be circulating and can answer questions as you go through the activities.  I keep track of the time so that we do not go over time for each activity

 I am sending home a schedule for activity conferences. Please look it over and write down your first and second choices for times. 

If you do not send your preferred times I will find a slot to fit you in.  Thank you for your attention to this and I look forward to meeting with you and your children then!

*Also note there is no school for students as it is a learning day for teachers November 8^th and no school November 11^th for Remembrance Day.  We will have a field trip on Thursday, December the 12th to the Western Development Museum.  Please let me know if you will be joining us on this trip.  The theme is “A Christmas Long Ago.” 

 

 

Sincèrement,

Mme Wallace

Les couleurs!

Oops! Pardon!

I looked at the calendar and noticed that it said that there will be a trip to the Pumpkin Patch.  I am sorry.  This was an error--I use old calendars and reconfigure them and I missed this one.  I hope that I have not caused any problems and disappointments!  My apologies.  I often tell the students not to be afraid to make mistakes and that Madame Wallace makes mistakes too--case in point.

Thank you to those who joined us on our walk to Pooh Corner.  We had a great time and had a wonderful walk back as well with a stop for a snack.  Please remember to keep Saskatoon Public Library books separate from our school library books which have a scan label: Saskatoon Public Schools.  It is easy to confuse them.  We continue to have school library time on Tuesdays.

Another thank you for the wonderful participation with the colour days.  Today was our arc-en-ciel day and the collages the children contributed to are quite lovely.

MERCI!

MIMI rencontre Glogster

Hello all. Joyeuse L'action de grâce!  I hope everyone is enjoying a good Thanksgiving weekend.  To the right of this post under the heading "MIMI" is a link called: Notre classe.  This link will get you to a poster with audio that you can play with the words on the poster.  This will help with pronunciation for checking with your child.  Let me know how you find  this tool!

Mme Wallace

Jaune et Bleu

It is so wonderful to see the colours of fall and in our class.  We collected leaves with les cali-partenaires (our care partners) yesterday and did les frottages (rubbings) today.

VAS-Y VERT! ~Go Green!

Wow what participation!  Thank you for reading the notes that are going home and for the great participation.  We added some to our collage rouge and we made our collage vert.

Dans le dossier

Going home today in your child's dossier is the page that he or she can fill out for "J'aime l'automne" by drawing, or doing a collage or including a photo for his or her special day--please see calendar.
There is a sheet to fill out for our picture day October 10th.  There is also a form for those who do not have a Saskatoon Public Library card.  If your child does not have a card please fill it out as soon as possible.  If he or she has a card please send it in the dossier on the 18th so that it is ready to go.