February Newsletter

ELA:

The students have been writing persuasive writing texts in hopes of convincing Hershey’s to become part of the Fair Trade Organization.  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 small 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 created an project involving the Olympic Rings.

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 minimum of 2 minutes.

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 4^th: Early dismissal

March 7^th: Basketball tournament (11:15-2:30)

March 10^th: Theater Club: AM

March 12^th: Report Cards

March 13^th: Project Fair and Conferences PM

March 14^th: Conferences AM and No School       

March 18^th: Early dismissal

March 21^st: Spring photos

March 28^th: Last day of school/Party PM

March 31^st- April 5^th: Spring Break

Contributions by: Jayde, Haley, et Bria

This month has been pretty hectic.  We had the Olympics and Festival du Voyageur, not to mention Anti-Bullying Day.  Mme Noel, Mme Lachance, and Mme Craciun's classes wrote speeches. They presented them in their class in order to participate at the divisional level.  The kids who were chosen were Jeremy, Anais, Diana, and Cole.  In the Olympics, Canada came in third behind Norway and Russia.  For Festival du Voyageur, we dressed up like voyageurs for the whole week and on the Friday, we had our pancake lunch.