Cold and Rainy November!

It's been a cold, wet week. The students practiced the long and short "o" sound in "Un oiseau" and "Nicole". Our shared reading was the poem "Mois d'automne". I finished doing GB+ reading assessments with all of the students. They will be bringing home harder books in their "Book-in-a-bag". When we restart our reading centres next week, their guided groups will be changed slightly to reflect their new levells and their needs for their guided reading groups. Most of the students who have been going with Mme McLaren for some extra reading will continue to do so. I also did a spelling assessment this week that gave me great data on which sounds they have mastered in their writing and which sounds they need more practice writing. Next week I will be starting writing centres so that I can do guided writing with small groups. Some of the games that they will be playing at the centres will be designed to help them practise those spelling patterns. 

In math, we continued to do our math centres. We also began an interactive math journal so that they have somewhere to review math concepts whenever they need to. Mlle Carmichael completed most of her assessments on the measurement unit she taught. Next week she will have the students doing centres that help them master some of the measurement concepts that they are still struggling with or to give them a measurement challenge if they understood all the concepts well. 

Mlle Carmichael did a Language/Social Studies lesson on Rembrance Day. She read the book "Un coquelicot pour se souvenir" as a read aloud. The students watched a slideshow on the poem "Les cimetières flamands", the French translation of John McRae's famous poem "In Flanders Fields". They did some worksheets on Remembrance Day for their Social Studies duo tangs. Later in the week, they did another shared reading with Mlle about Remembrance Day. 

Mlle Carmichael also did a 3-d art lesson with the class on the poppy fields of Flanders. They turned out very well. Look for a couple of the pieces on display in one of the art frames near the Office and the Resource Centre in the gallery of art. The rest will be on display on one of our hall bulletin boards. I will post pictures next week once all the students have completed their art. We also practised our Remembrance Day song quite a bit and are all ready for Tuesday's assembly. A note will be going home on Monday about the students wearing red, black, or white on Tuesday. If they have a uniform (Beavers, Brownies), they can wear that instead. I hope many of you will be able to make it to Tuesday's assembly. It will start at 10:45 am but come early as it is always busy. 

I'm looking forward to meeting with most of you next week to discuss all the progress your children have made so far. Have a great weekend!