Week 11 in Div. 11

Bonjour!

Please see the email for field trip information.

Upcoming:
Thurs. Nov. 16 - Dictée
Fri. Nov. 17 - Pizza/sushi

Mon. Nov. 20 - Author visit
Tues. Nov. 21 - P.E.
Thurs. Nov. 23 - Dictée
Fri. Nov. 24 - Professional Day.  No school for students.  I will attending the Google Summit for educators on Friday and Saturday at Oak Bay High School.

This week's dictée:

Week 10 in Div. 11

Bonjour!

Please look for a newsletter coming home tomorrow about our upcoming field trip.

What we're working on in class right now:

Math
- Learning and practicing French numbers:  Many students enter Grade 3 having difficulty remembering French numbers over 59.  Please practice counting by 10s in French at home.  To practice matching numbers from 1 to 100 at home, try this game.

You can also make flashcards on this link.

- Place Value:  We are also learning all about the "House of Math", otherwise known as "Thousands, Hundreds, Tens, and Units", and recognizing that the "2" in 3298, is greater than the "9" because it represents 2 x 100, which is greater than 9 x 10.  We will be working with blocs, representing numbers with words and illustrating them, as well as breaking numbers down into smaller parts.

French
- I have started to assess French reading for the first report card and will update the first page of each student's agenda so you can double-check that your child is bringing home the correct reading level.

- This week we should be finishing to read our first French novel together.  It's the story of a family vacationing in a house with a bat problem.  We have been transforming the non-fiction parts of the story into our own ideas to create an informative poster about bats.

Remembrance Day posters
This past week we started to discuss what Remembrance Day means to us.  Many students have connections to this time of the year and were able to share them in class.  We also started to work on posters for this occasion.  Every year, I invite students to participate in the Canadian Legion's Remembrance Day poster contest.  We take time to look at other students' artwork which leads to discussions about what makes an interesting poster.  If your child is interested in participating in the contest I will send a form in the agenda.  Find out more information about the contest here:

This week's happenings:
Monday Nov. 6th: reading assessments.  Please send your child's labeled choir uniform in a labeled plastic bag.
Tuesday:  Choir practice, P.E.
Thursday:  Choir practice
Friday:  Remembrance Day assembly, little buddies

Next week:
Monday Nov. 13th:  holiday, no school
Tuesday:  P.E.
Friday:  Pizza/Sushi, little buddies

Here is this week's audio dictée:

Week 9 in Div. 11

Bonjour!

Upcoming:

Tues. Oct. 31:  Black & Orange day, P.E.

Wed. Nov. 1:  Please bring candy wrappers to school for a graphing exercise

Thurs. Nov. 2:  Dictée, bring your black & white choir uniform to school in a labeled bag

Mon: Nov. 6:  Scholastic due

Tues. Nov. 7:  Remembrance Day rehearsal in the afternoon

Thurs. Nov. 9:  Dictée, Remembrance Day rehearsal in the afternoon

Fri. Nov. 10:  Remembrance Day Ceremony (morning)

Please check this week's email for information about an upcoming field trip.

This week's audio dictée:

Week 8 in Div. 11

Bonjour!

Events upcoming in Div. 11:

Mon. Oct. 23:  PJ day, bring a book for Drop Everything and Read - a school-wide reading event, also, as mentioned last week, our class will work with a Francophone Theatre group from Vancouver, Cross-country jamboree for some students in the afternoon.

Tues. Oct. 24:  P.E.
Wed. Oct. 25:  Photo retakes
Thurs. Oct. 27:  Dictée

Mon. Oct. 30:  Halloween safety assembly
Tues. Oct. 31:  Black & Orange day, P.E.
Thurs. Nov. 2:  Dictée

This week's audio dictée:

Week 7

Bonjour!

 Looking at the weather for this week, Fall is definitively upon us.

 Here's a look ahead at the next 2 weeks in our class:

- Tues. Oct. 17 - P.E.
- Wed. Oct. 18 - Choir
- Thurs. Oct. 19 - Dictée, the Great BC Shake-up (Earthquake practice)
- Fri. Oct. 20 - BC-wide Professional Development Day for teachers.  I will be attending workshops in Vancouver on Friday and Saturday.

Week of Oct. 23-27
- This week, Willows French Immersion classes will be taking part in some "Art Dramatique" sessions with Theatre de la Seizieme, a professional Francophone Theatre company from Vancouver. 

- Tues. Oct. 24 - P.E.
- Wed. Oct. 25 - Photo retakes, choir
- Thurs. Oct. 26 - Dictée
- Fri. Oct. 27 - Pizza/Sushi, Buddies

This week's audio dictée:

Week 6 in Div. 11

Bonjour!

This week on my radar:

It's the official yearly Fire Drill week at Willows, where we practice getting out of the building quickly and quietly.

Monday:  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Tuesday:  Fire drill, P.E.

Wednesday:  Official Fire Drill with Oak Bay Fire Dept. attending

French Home reading:

How is the home reading coming along?  Is your child able to get his/her 10 minutes a day of French reading?  Are you seeing books coming home?  Please jot me a note in your child's agenda if he/she needs a reminder to switch-out French books.

Inside shoes:

With the wet weather now here again, please make sure your child has a clean pair of inside shoes for the classroom.  

Agendas

I use agendas in my class as an important communication tool between school & home.  Please make sure to sign it every night.  I tell students that it is their responsibility to ask you to read and sign it, but in reality these young people usually need a hand in remembering.  Since we look at our agendas at least once a day, it is also a good place for parents to write reminders (exchange books, bring home water bottle, ...)

This week's dictée:

Week 5 update

Bonjour!

Please see field trip information in the email.

This week in Div. 11:
Thurs. Oct. 5th - Dictée

Next week:
Mon. Oct. 9th - Thanksgiving
Wed. Oct. 11 - Fire Drill
Thurs. Oct. 12 - Dictée

Here's this week's audio dictée: