February Newsletter

 February Newsletter

ELA:

The students have been reading newspaper articles and answering questions.  They continue to practice their words.  Their next step is to work on their editing skills using their weekly TWAS.

Sciences humaines:

The students have been looking at different explorers and Vikings and as well as the countries who financed the expeditions.  The students completed a research project on a Viking or explorer of their choice.  We also discussed the relationship between the Aboriginals and the Europeans once they established a colony in North America.

Sciences de la nature and Hygiène:

The students have almost completed part of the unit Maintaining a Healthy Body.  The students are now looking at the different systems (for example, the digestive system).

Arts plastiques:

The students begun a mirror art project using contrasting colors.  They also created a research cube which was integrated with Sc. Hum, Français and Art.

Français:

The students have spent most of their time writing a speech for the concours d’art oratoire this month. As a class, we started off exploring different ideas for their speech. Students heard examples of speeches and we identified the structures of these speeches. Finally each student wrote a speech (minimum of 2 minutes long).

Math:

We have begun our unit on long division.  We also continued to work on problem solving and mental math strategies.   They completed a problem involving the fur trade to go along with Festival du Voyageur week

Mme Craciun

Dates to remember:

March 1^st: No school

March 4^th: Choral Festival - AM

                   Freeze Frame – All day

March 5^th: Early dismissal

March 8^th: Annie – PM

March 11^th: Recorder Club – PM

March 12^th: Report Cards

March 14^th:  Basketball tournament – 11:15-2:00 PM

                       Conferences – PM

March 15^th: No school, conferences AM

March 19^th: Early dismissal

March 20^th: WSO

March 22^nd: Last day of school/Party PM

March 25^th-29^th: Spring Break

Student contribution by Sadie and Justin:

This month in class, we are studying new things, for example, in Sc. Nat, we are studying the systems of the human body.  In English, we are correcting TWAS after we bring it home.  In Sc. Hum, we made a cube with an animal and we had to fill the cube with information about that animal.  We had Festival du Voyageur and to go with that, we had a pancake lunch.  We are collecting food for Operation Donation.  Next week, we will be going to Freeze Frame.  The choir members had a performance.  Here are some of the things we did during the month of February.