News and Notes in April

Reminder that tomorrow April 23rd is Blast from the Past!  The kids can dress up from a time gone by….another decade or even century!  Also please remember that I will need volunteers April 27^th and April 28^th.  We will be making bannock on the Monday and we will be going to a film on Tuesday.

HOME READING LINKS:

http://lamagiedelamaternelle2.blogspot.ca/2015/03/les-livres-chez-nous-home-reading-books.html

Le vendredi 17 avril, 2015

Chers parents,

We had a great week back! We started the week with a visit from two local artists, Mr. and Mrs. Rivard.  They shared with us some knowledge about light, shadows and colour (la lumière, les ombres et la couleur) as we started our fruit study sketches on Monday.  On Tuesday we then did our still life,nature morte, paintings of a bowl of fruit.  The children did beautiful work.  The paintings and sketches are on display in the LRC glass display case.  Next week we will make our own personal fake pizzas.  We learned a little about how to divide pizzas into even numbers to share with others.  We will include shapes when we make our toppings.

 

We are looking forward to some special days in the weeks to come.  Next week April 23^rd is Blast to the Past.  Children can dress up from a decade or century that has gone by.  This is always optional but great fun to get into the spirit of the day.  Monday, April 27^th I will be baking bannock with the students.  If you are able to volunteer please let me know.  I can use one or two helpers for this undertaking.  On Tuesday April 28^th we will also need volunteers to walk with us and view Le coq de St-Victor at the Broadway Theatre for the Cinergie Festival.  I will need two additional adults.

On May 8^th we will be having our Mother’s Day Tea.  If a parent cannot attend please send someone in your place for that morning.  It will be about 45 minutes in the LRC beginning at about 9am. 

We are done our alphabet homework booklets so we will another break from homework.  Thank you for the great participation.  These booklets can now remain at home.  We are enjoying the warmer weather greatly!  Please ensure that your child still has outdoor shoes (runnners) and indoor shoes as this helps keep our school clean.

Merci pour votre soutien!

Mme Wallace

April Newsletter

Joyeux avril!  Time has been going quickly and we are into a new season: le printemps.  We will continue our unit on food, la nourriture but we will also add a focus of spring.  For your child’s special day he or she can do a picture or bring something that represents spring or a favourite spring activity.  I mentioned at interviews that we will also have some special days in which parents will be invited.

May 8^th our class will be hosting a Mother’s Day Tea at 9:00 am in the school LRC.  If a parent is unable to attend please send someone to be there for your child.  I have had grandmas, dads and aunties… attend!  It is a very special occasion and the children are always very proud to share with you.

In June we will have a Dads' day.  This will be from 8:50am -10:30 am in the GYM.  The date will be announced.  (It will be mid to late June when the school is booked to go to the swimming pool.)  I will let you know as soon as possible.  Again if a parent is unable to attend please have someone come to participate with your child.  This will be an active time which will involve running and lots of movement; please dress for being active.  Dates for field trips will also be announced as soon as possible.

We are enjoying our food unit very much.  Thank you for the great participation in the fruit salad, the veggie soup and the sharing snack.  We will be making a few more items as a class where supplies will be provided already.  We also enjoyed our restaurant simulation with our care partner class.

 I hope everyone is enjoying the home reading books.  Click the home reading link on the blog from March 12^th to get to the links for the books.

http://lamagiedelamaternelle2.blogspot.ca/2015/03/les-livres-chez-nous-home-reading-books.html

Joyeux Printemps!

Mme Wallace

Les livres chez nous ~Home reading books

The students will be taking home books in their dossiers on today. They will be due back--every Thursday--the same day as library exchange day. Each book has a number and a title. You can check the book number and title with the subsequent blog posts and read along. We have two books per blog post. (Please note the timing on the books are 1 minute in length so it goes by quickly. It is okay to pause or re-visit the same recording.) This is an opportunity to read-along in French and hear and see the correct pronunciation. We will also be discussing, asking questions and pre-viewing some of the books in class. I hope that you and your child enjoy! Below are links to the audio for following along with the home reading books. If you click on the links it will direct you to the books. The characters require Flash player to be able to play them. I do not believe they can be viewed on iPods or iPhones. (I am not sure about tablets.)
#1 Les couleurs #2 Dans la salle de classe
#4 Le corps #5 Les nombres 0-10
#6 Les formes #7Les vêtements 1
#9 Les jours et les saisons 10 La nourriture
#11 Les vêtements 2 #12 Ma famille
#13 Les animaux domestiques #14 La ferme
#15 Le zoo  #20 Les nombres 10-20
#23 Les actions #24Bonjour!
#26 Les bonnes manières  #27 L’alphabet
#28 Les sentiments  #30 La maison
#31 Le chaton  #32 Le cheval
#33Le chien
#34 L’escargot #35 L’hibou
#36 Le lapin  #37 Le moustique
#38 Le perroquet #40 Le serpent
Les livres GB+# 01 Le crayon   #02 Une maison #03 Je remplis mon sac #04 Les chaussures de Camille
GB+ #05 Papa #06  Attention! #07 Mon accident # 08 La pêche
Livres GB+ #09 La crème glacée #10 Où sont les oeufs? #11 Zoe et Banjo #12 Voici petit Chimpanzée
 





  

Reminder: La soupe aux legumes!

Please remember, tomorrow we are making vegetable soup.   Please send your child with his/her vegetables pre-cut. We will be enjoying our soup as snack but they are welcome to bring a little snack in addition to this.  MERCI!

We will also be going to Extra Foods on Wednesday.  We are looking forward to this as well.  Thank you to Athena and Crystal for volunteering to join us.


Mme J. Wallace

New homework!

Chers parents,

We have been having a great week!  The 100 days celebration was wonderful.  Thank you for the great participation for the 100 days project.  We also made some necklaces out of 100 fruit loops by counting in tens with our care partners.  We did 100 exercises.  We did some estimating in comparing what snack in a baggie would weigh the most.  We also imagined what we would do with 100 dollars.  The kids came up with some fun ideas.  We will be moving into a new unit on nutrition and food soon.  Please keep posted with your notes and the blog.  We will be making and tasting some great foods together.

  I will also be sending home alphabet songbooks.  Your child will be singing the song of the day to you and will then work on that letter at home and colour the new words.  Each day the booklets need to come back to school.  We will also start home reading books that will go home next week.

Merci!

Mme Wallace    

Important dates!

Chers parents,

Tomorrow is beach day!  Even though it is cold outside we can imagine we are somewhere warm!  Students may come with beach wear (no bathings suits please): sun hats, sunglasses….under their winter gear. 

Friday is our concert at 9am.  Please be on time!  We will be performing on risers in the gym so it is important that all students arrive on time so that we can be ready.  We are looking forward to the performance very much. 

We will be handing out Valentine cards after the performance before snack time.  We will not be taking out any cards before the performance.  There will be plenty of excitement that day.

 

The first day back from the break, Monday February 23^rd we will be celebrating 100 days of school.  Please send your child’s 100 day project as well as a 100 days snack in a baggie (cheerios, pretzels, smarties…) –no nuts please.  We will be sharing a 100 day snack.

 

We hope that you will be able to attend our assembly!  Have a great break!

Mme Wallace

 

A celebration

To celebrate our reaching 10 snowflakes in our bucket (we have been working on a classroom reward) children may bring a board game to play in class tomorrow February 3rd.  We will have some fun time set aside for this.  There will be enough games that if you are unable to send one that is ok.  Please ensure that your game is well labeled with your child or family name written on the box/container.
Thank you
MERCI!


Today's homework that will be picked up Wednesday:
Page 18: Cut and glue the bowling pins in alphabetical order.  Colour the picture to finish.

Page 19:Colour, cut, glue and see the completed fire truck.  BRAVO!  You have finished your first homework booklet!

 

If you need to check back on previous assignments here is the list:

Page 1 : Follow the arrow and trace with the dotted lines.  Feel free to colour in the pictures.

Page 2: Complete the dot to dot picture using the alphabetic order.

 

Page 3: Complete the alphabet—Fill in the missing letters.  Please use upper case letters on this page.

Page 4: Only colour the images that go with the first image in a column.  If your child would like, he or she can draw an “X” on the images that are not relevant to the first image.


Page 5 Draw the dot-to- dot picture numbering 1-12.

Page 6 Circle the number that corresponds with the picture above.  Students can colour in the images if they choose.  (Please use crayons or pencil crayons other than markers that bleed through the page.)

Page 7: Draw a line to match the numbers that are the same.

Page 8: Circle the numbers that are the same as the first number.

Page 9: Circle the letters that are the same as the first letter in the box.

Page 10: Drawn lines to join the upper case letters with their matching lower case letters.

Page 11: Draw a picture of yourself in the middle and colour, cut out and glue the circus around you in the right places.

Page 12:  Cut out and colour and glue M. Loyal together in the right way to help him prepare for the show.

Page 13: Print the lower case letter that is missing in the rectangle below. 
Page 14: Print the number that is missing on the line below.


Page 15:  Colour only the pictures that amount to the number in the column.
Page 16 :  Colour and cut out and glue the images and put them in the proper place and in sequence .

Page 17: Colour, Cut out and glue each image in the right correct place.