What We Are Currently Learning

FRANÇAIS

We have begun a read aloug, La nouvelle maîtresse.  We try to read from this book daily, as well as during our Temps de thé, responding to the text in our journal and working on building our vocabulary.  Students have individual dictée words taken from the mistakes they make in their own journal.  Our first dictée will be on Friday, September 22.  In our journals, we are working on responding to the text in paragraph form.  Students are encouraged to fully develop their ideas.  

We are also reading and writing around the theme of le respect (envers soi-même, envers les autres, et envers la communauté).  This theme will allow us to engage in rich discussions, read non-fiction texts, specifically biographies, analyse the features of text, and then write a biography. We will study grammar, in context, to support our writing. 

In the next couple of weeks, benchmarks will be completed to determine students current reading levels, and guided reading will begin.  Mme Carter and I, are working towards setting up an at-home reading program, that can be, hopefully, accessed online.

SCIENCES SOCIALES

In our Heritage and Identity unit, we will learn about key characteristics of various First Nations and European settler communities in New France up to 1713, this term.  

MATH

SANTÉ

Our current unit in health focuses on healthy relationships and personal safety, in person and online.  We will continue to investigate bullying, including cyber-bullying.  We will examine how our actions can effect our, and other's, emotional well-being, self-concept, and reputation (negative actions, as well as positive actions such as praising, supporting, and advocating).  The following videos have guided our discussions and our lessons, thus far.

ENGLISH

Our present focus is responding to text in meaningful ways.  We are reading a series of read alouds that are centered around similar themes.  Students are learning to use evidence from the text to support complex inferences about the author's message.  They are learning to extend their thinking well beyond the text in deep, significant ways.  I have modeled, then we co-wrote a response.  Now students are group writing an inference to the text "Ish".  With the gradual release of responsibility, students will write their own inferences about the author's message.

SCIENCES

With Mme Denbok, students are working towards building their own body system.  

HOUSE KEEPING

Each student has been assigned a job that they are responsible for throughout a two week cycle.

At the end of each day, we stop to complete our jobs and to write in our agendas.

I am thoroughly enjoying my time with your children.  Thank you for entrusting them to my care.  I look forward to meeting each and every one of you in the near future.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Lemire