Bowling Trip

We had a great time!!!

Thank you Mr. Mollaei and Mrs. Vandenberg for volunteering! :)

 

Happy Thursday!

 

This was our day:

- Gym class

- Snacks and morning circle time

- Daily Five - read to self

- Spring Fundraiser Assembly (Congratulations to Noah for being the top student)

- Lunch and recess

- Daily Five - listen to reading

- Daily Five stations - students rotated between 3 literacy stations - building words with letter stamps, matching beginning sounds with the actual word and building words with magnetic letters.

- UOI- we talked about the most common road signs  and made a STOP sign.

- Lunch and recess

- Pack up

- Math centers

Top Student of the Day!

I'm happy to announce that Noah was the top student of the day for the Spring Fundraiser!

And our class was the top class! As prize we got a free/extra Casual Day on Monday, May 1st!

Happy Wednesday

What a great sunny day!
This is how our day went:
- Gym class
- Snack and morning circle time
- Library
- Daily Five - read to self
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - listen to reading - Reading Buddies with the gr. 3s!
- Daily Five - word work - students worked on "AT" family words. They had to cut and paste letters in order to build the words.
- Ice cream, snacks and recess
- Art class
- Spring Fundraiser Assembly
- Pack up

Have a great evening everyone!
*tomorrow is the last day to bring in your pledge forms and money. Thank you!

Gr. 6s Presentation

Dear SJA Families,

The Grade 6 class invites you to attend the Exhibition on Friday, May 6, 2016, from 9 am to 11 am, or from 6 pm to 8 pm in the auditorium.

The Exhibition is the culminating task of the IB Primary Years Programme. It is where students work collaboratively to explore a local issue that interests them.  This year’s Grade 6s have chosen the following topics to explore:

Poverty

Terrorism

Industrialization

Animal Abuse

Declining Bee Population

Racism

Issues Facing Aboriginal Peoples on Reserves

Climate Change

Some great reasons why you should attend if your child is NOT in Grade 6 include:

·         Supporting and celebrating with the Grade 6s

·         Learning about these issues

·         Being aware of what will be expected of your child when they are in Grade 6

We hope to see you then.

Sincerely,

The Grade 6 Class

 

Exciting!

Dear Parents,

The SJA Parent Guild is excited to announce that we have very special guests joining us for the Summer Fiesta- Paw Patrol!  There will be members of Paw Patrol at the Summer Fiesta on May 28th to meet with the children and have photos taken.  The purchase of a $25 wristband includes a child's visit and digital photo with Paw Patrol, unlimited access to all the bouncy castle, games and more!  Wristbands go on sale to the public tomorrow, April 28th. Please see the attached flyer for more information and to help us spread the word to your friends and family throughout the community!

Happy Tuesday

Today we had a lot of fun!

- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Daily Five - read to someone - we played a game as a class where students had to roll the dye, match the number with the column of short words and then pick a word to read to the class. After that they just practiced reading the words to each other in pairs.
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - listen to reading - we read a book about Franklin going to the hospital.
- Math - we compare heavy and light items today. Then we completed a worksheet where students had to look at each side of the scale and color the heaviest picture.
- Spring Fundraiser Assembly - Mrs. Chin and Mme. Jessica got a pie on their face!
- Lunch and recess
- Centers

Have a great evening everyone!
*Tomorrow is casual Day!

Happy Monday!

We had a great Monday!

- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Arts Night rehearsal
- Daily Five - read to self
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - work on writing - students wrote in their journal about their favourite TV show.
- Math centers - students had a variety of centers to choose from.
- Pop corn, snacks and recess
- Art class
- Spring Fundraiser Assembly

 

I always love to do our morning circle time on Mondays, everyone has stories to tell about the weekend! Each of us take turns to hold on to the baseball. Whenever a person is holding the baseball,  nobody else can talk, it will be only that student's turn to talk. It is cute to see my JKs respecting the rules and consequently each other! :)

We have been doing that since the beginning of school year and it works really well! :)

Reminders for this week:

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: Bake sale, please send in your child’s money in a labelled Ziploc bag.

Wednesday, April 27th- Sundae Day #2: students may still purchase sundaes if they bring in their $5.00 this week.  Sundaes will be served during second lunch.  

Thursday, April 28th: pledge forms are due and bowling permission form.

Friday, April 29th- Bowling Field Trip: students need to donate a minimum of $35.00 to participate.  Our class will be leaving at 9am sharp!  

 

Happy Earth Day!

We had a great Friday!

- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Arts Night rehearsal
- Daily Five - listen to reading/read to self
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Story time about Earth Day
- Collage about Earth Day
- Math centers
- Dance party!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Tuesday

This is what we did today:
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Library
- Lunch and recess
- Reading buddies
- Daily Five - work on writing - journals
- Math - students had short and large pictures to cut, sort and paste.
- Lunch and recess
- Art class
- Pack up
- House games

I'm not sure who is more excited for the playground to be done, me or the students!!!:)

Details for the Spring Fundraiser

-          Tomorrow, April 21^st  is Sundae Day

-          Friday, April 22^nd  is the Dance Party (there will be a snack bar, please send in money in a labelled Ziploc bag, items will cost $1.00), we will have a DJ and clean music :) students may dress up in blue or green as it is also Earth Day!

-          Monday, April 25^th  is Popcorn Day (please send in form and money no later than Friday April 22^nd)

-          Wednesday, April 27^th is our Sundae Day (please, submit form and money no later than April 22^nd), you can find the form in your child’s agenda today

-          The bowling trip is on April 29^th , that will resume our Spring Fundraising activities! You will find the form in your child’s agenda today, please, submit the pledge form along with the money by Thursday, April 28^th. Students who do not raise a minimum of $35 will not be able to join the bowling trip and will have regular class time on that day.

-          Please note that next week we will be having bake sale on Tues, Wed and Thurs., again, please, send your child’s money for the bake sale in a labelled Ziploc bag.

Sunny Tuesday!

Great weather today!
Now that we finally have a nice weather, I would suggest you apply sunscreen on your child before coming to school. We, teachers, are not allowed to apply sunscreen on students.
This is how our day went:
- Pancake breakfast

- Morning circle time
- Daily Five - listen to reading (Denise read a book to the class)

- Daily Five - work on writing - students practiced their printing on their Abeka workbook.
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - read to self/read to someone
- Math - students had to cut and paste different modes of transportation and make create patterns.
- Language - we played a different version of musical chairs. On the chairs I placed short words, when the music stopped students had to sit and read the word out loud to the class. After the game we did some dancing! Take a look:

- Lunch and recess
- Centers
- Pack up
- Ms. Reta had a very nice surprise to everyone and we gave her our gift! Thank you again all parents who contributed with this kind gesture!

Happy Monday!

What a nice weather to be outdoors!
We had a lot of fun throughout our day!
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Daily five - work on words - students had to cut and paste the beginning sound of each word.
- Daily five - read to self
- Lunch and recess
- Daily five - work on writing - students completed their journals practicing the use of finger space, beginning the sentence with upper case and period at the end of the sentence.
- Math centers - we sorted, made patterns and counted.
- Lunch and recess
- Music
- Pack up and house points

Summer Camp!

Sunny Friday!

What a nice sunny day! And apparently we will have a nice weather on the weekend as well! Enjoy! Go outside! :)
This was our day:
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Arts - Students worked on a spring mosaic flower (this activity was great for fine motor skills and hand eye coordination)
- Lunch and recess
- Daily five - listen to reading - I usually like to read to them, but today we tried to listen to this: http://www.storylineonline.net/a-bad-case-of-stripes/ after we had a discussion about the book and how important it is to be yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. We focused on the IB Learner Profile: Open Minded!
- Students finished their spring flower
- Math - we reviewed our unit on measurements and also the story of the 3 bears. Students received pictures of small, medium and big items from the story and then sorted them out.
- Daily Five - read to self
- Lunch and recess
- Pack up
- Centers
- Prize box

Have a great weekend!

Arts Night

Dear Parents,

This year's Arts Night theme will be Fairy Tales!

As we are starting to plan our performance, I just want to give you heads up on what our class will be doing. Students will be dwarfs from the Snow White. JKs will be asked to wear adult size t-shirts. Please, follow the list bellow for colors:

 

Leah - red t-shirt

Noah - red t-shirt

Yoana -red t-shirt

 

Saraya - yellow t-shirt

Sarah - yellow t-shirt

Ryan - yellow t-shirt

Denise - yellow t-shirt

 

Olivia - green t-shirt

Fatema - green t-shirt

Ariana - green t-shirt

Zoya - green t-shirt

 

Peter - blue t-shirt

Ved - blue t-shirt

Scarlett - blue t-shirt

Kayla - blue t-shirt

 

T-shirts MUST be adult size (small or medium size) and as plain as possible.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Great Thursday!

Completely forgot to post this yesterday! :( My apologies!
This was our day...
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Journals - daily five - work on writing - students completed their journal by writing the following sentence: "My favourite sport is ________________".
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Language - students worked on beginning sounds by cutting and pasting pictures to math the letters.
- Math/UOI - students played a numeracy game where they put transportation picture numbers 1-30 in correct sequence.
- Lunch and recess
- Pack up and centers

Happy Wednesday!

What a fun and busy day!
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Library and Daily Five - read to self
- Emotions game planned by Ms. Reta (as part of her internship process)
- Daily Five - work on writing - students worked on their penmanship on their Abeka workbook by writing short words using the lines.
- Lunch and recess
- Story time - Daily Five - listen to reading
- Language - Daily Five - word work - students cut and paste letter in order to build short words
- Math/UOI - students had a variety of math manipulatives to count and sort and also they had a blast playing train with the cardboard boxes! Something so simple and it was so engaging for them, I suggest you try to place some card boxes at home and see what your child is able to do with it! :)
- Lunch and recess
- Music with Mrs. Kerr
- Pack up and house points