Happy Friday

Please check out upcoming announcements:

1. I sent home a letter regarding poems! This is for an oral contest held at St. Jude’s every year! Each child received a poem yesterday, which they are expected to memorize for February 20^th, 2015!

2. Science Centre: Next Thursday, February 5^th, 2015! Please make sure students are dressed in their full St. Jude’s Uniform. It is much easier if students bring disposal bags and water bottles for their lunches.J

Take a look at our day:

French – Mme. Stella

Visual Arts

We continued with our Valentines Day theme! We learned how to say, “I love you” in sign language! Then we traced our hands, and created an I love you poster!

Gym – Ms. Lovan

Math

Student will estimate objects in a jar! Then they will count them by 10’s in order to practice skip counting.

MMS: pgs. 143 – 145

Unit of Inquiry

Students today had the period to work on their radio ads!

Writers Workshop

We practiced a recount writing activity today! The students will be doing an assessment soon based on a recount so I would like to get them in the hang of it now. 

Have a wonderful Weekend everyone.  

Ms. Rossi

Working together to make groups of 10!

Casual day will be tomorrow Thursday, January 29^th 2015. The bake sale will continue tomorrow as well! Make sure to send a couple dollars so students can enjoy some of the delicious baked goods!  Please bring earphones tomorrow as well!   Please check out upcoming announcements:

1. I sent home a letter regarding poems! This is for an oral contest held at St. Jude’s every year! Each child received a poem yesterday, which they are expected to memorize for February 20^th, 2015!

2. Science Centre: Next Thursday, February 5^th, 2015! Please make sure students are dressed in their full St. Jude’s Uniform. It is much easier if students bring disposal bags and water bottles for their lunches.J

Take a look at our day:

French – Mme. Stella

Visual Arts

We made some “BEEEE – MINE”arts and crafts!

Gym – Ms. Lovan

Math

We started our brand new unit today!

We were looking at patterns, but this unit we will be looking at patterns in numbers.

Unit of Inquiry

We continued to look cars today and they have evolved over time! They got to design their very own car today and talk about their features.

Daily 5

We continued to explore writing, reading, and word skills in our daily 5. We also used the tablet to listen to reading and work on words!

Have a wonderful Evening

Ms. Rossi 

Usually we have casual days are on Wednesday, however this month casual day is on Thursday, January 29^th 2015. There will also be a bake sale tomorrow and Thursday as well!  Please bring earphones tomorrow and Thursday as well!   Please check out upcoming announcements:

1. I sent home a letter regarding poems! This is for an oral contest held at St. Jude’s every year! Each child received a poem yesterday, which they are expected to memorize for February 20^th, 2015!

2. Unit Math Test: Tuesday, January 27^th, 2015

3. Science Centre: Next Thursday, February 5^th, 2015! Please make sure students are dressed in their full St. Jude’s Uniform. It is much easier if students bring disposal bags and water bottles for their lunches.J

Take a look at our day:

French – Mme. Stella

Dramatic Arts – Mr. Monaghan

Gym – Ms. Lovan

Math

Unit Test

Unit of Inquiry

Today we learned about the car! We learned about Henry Ford and how he created an assembly line system in order to make cars faster! Using this practice, we had our own assembly line and created cars.

Writers Workshops

With the DRA assessments coming up, I fell it is important for students to practice making text-self connections. We read a story, practiced retelling it as a class, and then students got to make text-self connections independently.  

Have a wonderful Evening

Ms. Rossi 

Welcome back everyone!!! Thank you so much for everything in regards to international day! It was so nice to see the whole class come together as we explored Italy! I had a great time, and I hope you did too!   Please check out upcoming announcements:

1. I sent home a letter regarding poems! This is for an oral contest held at St. Jude’s every year! Each child received a poem yesterday, which they are expected to memorize for February 20^th, 2015!

2. Unit Math Test: Tuesday, January 27^th, 2015

3. Science Centre: Next Thursday, February 5^th, 2015! Please make sure students are dressed in their full St. Jude’s Uniform. It is much easier if students bring disposal bags and water bottles for their lunches.J

Take a look at our day:

French – Mme. Stella

Visual Arts

Today we made some Valentine Day crafts!

We used our fingers to paint around the word “Love”. They turned out great!

Gym – Ms. Lovan

Math

Today we took up the math review together as a class, and the students were able to ask any questions they had regarding this unit. Then they got use the rest of the time to study as I circulated the class.

This units test will be next Tuesday, January 27^th, 2015.

Unit of Inquiry

We began reading a book called “Hooray for Inventors”. We then brainstormed why inventions are important to us. The students then wrote a journal response as to why inventions are important to them (5 – 6 sentences with a picture)

Spelling

The students wrote the new spelling words 3 times from the board, along with their sentences. Then they practiced using these words in their spelling workbook.

SPA: pgs. 69 – 72

Have a wonderful Evening

Ms. Rossi