T.G.I.F!

We began the day with our new Guided Reading cycle.  Our guided group is focusing on predicting, synthesizing and main idea, our A.P.E. group is analyzing the features of non-fiction text, our silent read group is continuing to read The Egypt Game on their own so we can squeeze in more of our novel, and finally the Word Study group is working on a mixture of words from our lessons and readings.

In Sciences sociales, we shared our ideas from yesterday's lesson pertaining to  ideas on health, illness, treatments of illness and life expectancy - comparing Ancient Greek times and Modern Day Canada.

Today, we had our BRAVO draw, to encourage students to speak French.  Today's prize was a tarte au sucre.  The winner was Bridget.  Congratulations Bridge - bon appétit!

In maths, we have begun our unit on fractions (our summative evaluation of decimal computations will be on Tuesday).  As always, we began the unit with a problem solving challenge.  Students worked diligently to solve the Submarine Sandwich problem.  (Click on the link to work on the problem at home if you were away today).  Unfortunately, we did not have enough time to Bansho our solutions today because I had to leave before the end of math for a workshop in Barrie.  Here are your little angels working their little hearts out:

Students spent the afternoon with Mme Somborac.  Mme Bosse invited them over to pratise our song for Music Monday, then Mme Somborac taught them two new verbs: pouvoir  et vouloir!  They ended the day with a visit to Mrs. Campbell-Sheen in the library for a story and a book exchange.  What a fun afternoon!

As requested, here is a translation for the sugar pie recipe:

4 cups of brown sugar
3 tbs. of flour
2 cups of evaporated milk
10 tbs. of melted butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs, beaten

Mix dry ingredients together, then add the remainder of the the ingredients.  Mix well.  Pour filling into 4 unbaked pie crusts.  Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30-35 minutes.  I usually end up baking them for about 40 minutes (once the filling shows little bubbles all over).  Let the pie cool to room temperature before cutting or the filling will leak.  Refrigerate the leftovers. 

Note:  If you are using deep dish pie crust, you will only need two crusts.   The pies will probably cook for almost an hour...I would check every five minutes once you have baked for 40 min. just to be on the safe side.

Enjoy!