Meet the teacher

If you happened to miss Meet the Teacher Night here are the cliff notes.

un polyglotte sommeille en vous

Like many people, I am fascinated by Ted talks at the moment. I stumbled on a really great one about learning multiple languages and...it's in French!!!Next week we are going to watch the video and discuss why one should learn one or more languages (obviously focusing on French). We will also discuss some of the strategies we use to support our language learning. We will even look at the FSL curriculum! Below is the link to a padlet with the video, some guiding questions and additional resources (great homework!). Un polyglotte sommeille en vous

première semaine

This week our learning goals are typical back to school goals. We are working on getting to know each other as well as the routines and procedures of the class. We have started preparing very short oral presentations to show the class a bit about who we are and what makes us tick. 

Yup...already...but it should be fun this week. 

Students are encouraged to bring two or three pictures or artifacts to help them tell me, and the class, a little bit about who they are. I would like at least one of the pictures to stay at school to decorate our lovely classroom (it will go back home with the student eventually or I can photocopy it if you don't want to risk damaging or loosing it)

Bring in as soon as possible but any time within the next weeks is fine.

Also, check out our September Newsletter

Caractère

We are on our last C! I love this last C, character (or caractère) because it's all about deep learning, grit, tenacity, perseverance and self-regulating. The 6s spent a lot of time at the beginning of the year talking about grit and resiliency with Mrs. Stanton so they knew a lot about that. Now that we are at the end of the year and they have had a lot of experience with deep learning, they are also able to differentiate a deep learning task to a more superficial one. Here is the English original progression with our student friendly French one.

 

Le vol

Hard to believe but we are on our last science unit of the year! We will be studying flight in the next few weeks. This week we will do a few hands on experiments to learn about, among other things: air pressure, the weight of air, what happens to air when it is heated and some of the properties of flight. Below is a padlet with overall expectations and some links to videos, articles and games to deepen our study. Up, up and awayyy!

Padlet pour le vol

Heritage fair and potluck

The kids absolutely loved the potluck! We had so much food we even invited educators to partake (which was perfect timing seeing as how it's teacher appreciation day). So much yummy food! Our heritage fair was also a huge success! Students, teachers and parents who came to visit were really impressed and the kids were wonderful.

Potluck

The grade 6s are having a potluck to celebrate our learning fair, to share some family recipes or specialities and to raise funds to sponsor a polar bear through the WWF.

Students will sign up for what they want to bring tomorrow. I will try to make sure that we have a healthy mix of foods.

The potluck will take place next Tuesday at lunch. Please send any questions or concerns my way!

Yummm!!!