Dictée

As you hopefully saw, dictée books came home today! This week is 10 words. These are grade 2 sight words but I find they have been mis spelled in lots of writing this year so far. 

Here is what you need to know about dictée:

On Monday, we will do a 'pré-célébration', which is like a pre test. This gives us all a starting point. The students will then copy all the words correctly from the board. I checked all the books today to make sure they were copied correctly. 

You have the week to study. Please use the words written in the book to study, but do not use the book it's self to practice in. 

On Fridays we will do our 'célébration' and will staple it in our dictée books. Then, the books will stay at school over the weekend to be ready for next week's dictée!

Happy studying!

So much to be thankful for

Check out everything we have to be thankful for! They did a wonderful job today with their turkeys and pumpkins!

Je dis merci pour...

Yesterday, we spent a lot of time talking about what we were thankful for in our lives. I was absolutely AMAZED at all of the things the kids came up with. They were so insightful, and most impressively, so respectful while others were sharing their ideas. While I was recording their ideas on the board, all I could hear were sounds of 'Ohhhh yeah' and 'moi aussi' which means me too! 

I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend! 

Bake Sale Reminder

something got lost in the paperwork shuffle, and you may not have received the message that this week is div 1's turn to provide goodies for the bake sale this Friday!

Classroom help

Hello everyone,

If you happen to have 20 minutes to spare in the morning, I'd love some help with a quick organizing job. If you can help, just come to the portable! 

Also, don't forget tomorrow is picture day!

Fall projects

This week, we will be starting some fall projects. Today we started a fall tree mosaic (yay for fine motor skills!). This week we will also be talking about everything we are thankful for in our lives. This is always one of my favourite projects in the year, as I feel that it is such an important practice to take the time to be thankful for what we have! 

As you may have seen in today's agenda, we will be starting LAQ (home reading) and dictée next week!

'Meet the Teacher Night' Handout

Here is the handout that I usually give for 'Meet the Teacher Night'. It covers a lot of information, that will help the school year so smoothly. Please take the time to read through it. If you have any questions, you can comment on the blog, or you can write a note in your child's agenda.

You can find the handout here (click on the word here!)

If you have any problems finding it, please let me know!

Bienvenue!

Hello division 1 of 2014-2015. Be sure to check back often of updates of what we have been doing in class! Later today, I will post the document I usually hand out at meet the teacher night that will give you more information on this year's program.

Dictée

As you probably noticed, we haven't had dictée for a few weeks. As the year winds down, I finish dictée for the year. We will do one last one next week. I still have many dictée tests that belong to students who often forgot their books at home. Please make sure the book comes to school next week so we can put them in, and I can take one last look at them. 

We have been quite busy in the class the past two weeks working on our plant and canada units. We are learning lots about Canada by working through bags of information that I have, as well as watching some tourism videos from each province or territory. We also have plenty of plant experiments going on in our room! Here are a few pictures! 

Wow, what a busy few weeks we have had here! I feel like I have hardly kept you guys in the loop. Here is this week'a dictée plus photos from the last few weeks!