Mme Emily Cheung's Daily Agenda

Reminders: English grammar homework on the vowel "O" due on Tuesday, November 5 Library day on Monday, please bring books Today we: Lily: did a scavenger hunt on math questions related to Halloween Mazen: we had music Lexi: had physical education with M. Trevor and we played Quidditch which is a game in Harry Potter Eliana: C'est l'Halloween!! Maya: we finished our 5 au quotidien cycle in English Lily: we started our grammar homework in English Lexi: wrote about our costume and details about our Halloween!

Reminders: Halloween tomorrow- please see Mme Brinson's weekly message regarding costumes  Photo orders due tomorrow Today we: Lily: worked on our posters for the life cycle of a plant Abi: talked about in English how we are going to earn pajama day - we got our letter today! Ask me how this will be earned! Worked on area in math and discussed efficient strategies to calculate area Ask me what my efficient strategy is! read two chapters in the BFG and answered questions played revenge tag outside worked on Daily 5 in English corrected our French grammar on "les lettres muettes" and continued practicing this by working on a crossword

Reminders: Return overdue books or renew French grammar homework on "les lettres muettes" due tomorrow On October 31, wear your normal clothes, orange, black or a costume (appropriate for school, please see Mme Brinson's message in Weekly Message) Today we: worked on our dream house in math - Abi Ask me how this relates to math! - Dane reviewed our notes for natural resources in the prairie region of Alberta in social studies - David had music - Dane did 5 au quotidien - Eliana had physical education with M. Trevor - Maya had science - Lexi did the life cycle of a plant and drew it out and talked about the different stages - Annalise read a book about the life cycle of a bean seed (la fève) - Zoe read 2 chapters of the BFG during snack, ask me about the story! - Abi

Reminders: French grammar homework on Wednesday, October 30 (les lettres muettes)  Today we: had physical education with M. Trevor visit M. Trevor's blogger at  https://mtrevorphysed.blogspot.com/ researched facts about the natural resources found in the prairie region of Alberta Ask me the natural resources found in our region! read a chapter of the BFG and chose two characters to compare had indoor recess due to the cold windchill practiced calculating area by starting a plan for our dream house Ask me which rooms I plan on adding to my house! learned about the silent letters in French and had time to start our homework worked on our Daily 5 centers Had a presentation on marker recycling from the grade 3's Instead of throwing out your markers at home, please bring them to school to have them recycled!

Reminders: Halloween Dance tonight Photo orders due October 31 Today we: played capture the flag - Eliana checked the recess equipment - Lexi had a lockdown - Rhys cleaned our desks - Lily laughed a lot - Elané did work that needed to be finished - Abi read in French for 20 minutes - Annalise are half way from being done the BFG - Lexi read two chapter of the book today - Abi

Reminders: Photo orders due October 31 Today we: - did capture the flag outside AND revenge tag after - Lexi - corrected our grammar and had math - Annalise - finished our shapes with the geoboards to find area - Zoe - finished our section of "le climat" on our webs and reviewed the notes we made - Maya - Ask me about the climate in the prairies! - finished our cycle of centers in English for Daily 5 - David - read chapter 14 of the BFG and answered some questions about it - Lily - looked at seeds and wrote the names, the colours, the size, the shape - Lexi

Reminders: English grammar due tomorrow (day 5) Photo orders due on October 31 Today we: did Daily 5 in English - Lily had physical education, we played Varsity tower - Annalise did health, we worked on the zones of regulation - Brodie Ask me what the zones are! did social studies and in social studies we shared our notes about "le relief" and then we did "hydrographie" and started "le climat" - Lexi Ask me which region of Alberta we are learning about! did math, in math we used geoboards to use different shapes and drew them on paper to calculate the area- Maya went to the library and picked out books - Elané

Reminders: Library day tomorrow, bring your books! English grammar homework on the vowel "I" due on Thursday, October 24 (day 5) Halloween dance on Friday (October 25) Hoodie order forms due on Monday, November 4 Today we: finished our cycle of daily 5 centers - Lily had a fire drill and it was a surprise - David did a bit of our grammar homework, then the fire bell rang DUN DUN DUNNNNN - Abi had education physical, we ran then did push-ups and squats and then a cooperation game - Dane had music and practiced the recorders - Eliana  Remember to bring your recorder the next music class! read the BFG and answered questions about it - Brodie did math, we used geoboards to review perimeter and area - Mazen

Reminders: Halloween Dance on Friday evening Today we: did some questions about the BFG - Lily went outside and played revenge tag - Zoe wrote about what we did on the weekend - Maya had science, we finished our special plant and did the life cycle - Annalise 2 centers on Daily 5 - Abi continued our web on the prairies - Lexi finished our work on multiplication and division equations in math - Zoe traded in our bâtons - Lexi

Today we: did catch up work started algebraic equations using multiplication and division worked on an iPad project with our grade 1 learning buddies read in English for 10 minutes

Reminders: French grammar homework on complex sounds due on Monday, October 21 Halloween Dance on October 25 - please see orange invitation Finish English grammar homework that was due on Tuesday, October 15: BS, KS, EG Today we: had physical education - Mattias played toilet tag - Remas also played Master Minds - Abi learned about plants with special needs - Zoe created a plant in our sketchbook and came up with a name, their habitat and adaptation - Maya had math - finished or corrected our math quiz and played a game when we were done - Kai in music we continued music share - Lexi read in French for 30 minutes - Lily did French, we did fun games on complex sounds - Annalise tried to change the spot where our plants are growing in science and we planted two more seeds - David read The Big Friendly Giant while we ate snack - Elané

Reminders: Healthy Hunger Special Lunch tomorrow (EDO!!) French grammar homework due on Monday, October 21 Halloween Dance on October 25 - check orange invitation for more information English grammar homework that was due yesterday, please bring tomorrow: BS, EG, RR, KS, RF Today we: had Clay for Kids with Rachel - Maya wrote about what we did on the long weekend - Lexi did social studies and we started taking notes on the prairie region - Lily had gym - David finished our game of "I'm going on a picnic" - Abi worked on our grammar homework, most of us finished - Eliana read in French for 10 minutes - Lexi practiced the complex French sounds - Remas

Reminders: Finish grammar homework that was due today: BS, DA, KS, AC, EG, RF, RR, MP, DS. Clay for Kids tomorrow at 12:20 pm Halloween Dance on Friday, October 25 - please see orange invitation in my orange folder Ask Madame for a poster when you are ready to start your book report Today we: corrected our English grammar homework - Lily had a presentation with M. Wagner - Annalise I learned that there are pine beetles and that they eat trees and carries fungus that turns the trees blue - Dane I learned that the oldest tree in Canada was 1055 years old - Abi I learned that M. Wagner is a forester - Lexi Foresters take care of the forest and if there's a forest fire and if it's near a city they put it out and if it's not they watch it. - Annalise They cut down trees to build houses and they plant one for every tree they cut - Kai Did a math quiz on addition and subtraction algebraic equations - Mazen Wrote in our journals about what we learned from th

Reminders: No school tomorrow and Monday - Happy long weekend! English grammar homework due on Tuesday, October 15 Today we: read for 30 minutes in French - Lily took our individual photos - Lily had physical education outside and in that we talked about safety on the playground - Lexi most of us finished our banyan trees in art - Dane exchanged our books if we needed to - Mazen continued making our plan and started writing our Thanksgiving paragraph - Maya did catch-up work - Abi finished our story for "Julie et le Bonhomme Sept-Heures" - Elané our Great Horned Owls and we finished our math word problems - Annalise finished our personal Coat of Arms - Lexi

Reminders: Photo day tomorrow If you need to change your books, library day is tomorrow English grammar homework due on Tuesday, October 15 When you are ready for a poster for your book report please ask Mme Today we: finished our math on addition and subtraction algebraic equation that we did with our partner started drawing a banyan tree and painting in art read for 30 minutes in English or in French had physical education with M. Trevor tried to finish our personal Coat of Arms in social studies had music with Mme Edgett- we did music share (Maya and Abi presented) started our English grammar homework and it's due on Tuesday, October 15

Reminders: Picture day on Thursday, October 10 Today we: corrected our French grammar homework put our Julie et le Bonhomme Sept-Heures stories on IRIS - ask me to share it with you! worked on the different parts of a paragraph and made a plan to write a paragraph on Thanksgiving worked in partners on word problems in math went to the learning commons to pick a book for our French book report - if the book is not a good-fit book, we can go exchange it on Thursday read in French for 20 minutes dissected and observed a flower  - ask me what the function of a flower is and the different parts Rhys' plant is growing! His is the first plant to start growing. 

Reminders: French grammar homework due tomorrow Return at least ONE French book tomorrow - we are going to pick a book for our French book report If you have a book at home or would like to pick one from the public library, that is okay :)  Photo day on Thursday, October 10 French book report outline and rubric is in my orange envelope or backpack, please keep in a safe spot so I can refer to it when I start my project Example below is typed, but I have a choice to handwrite or type it out Title, author and a drawing of the most important part - Cover of the poster Summary of the book - on the back of the poster Left side: main character- drawing and paragraph explaining physical traits and personality Right side: 5 new words - the sentence it was found in the book and the definition Today we: had music 15 minute math problem on algebraic equations on subtraction had physical education - we did a rubics cube game  wrote what we did on the weekend rea

Reminders: French grammar homework due on Tuesday, October 8 (day 2) Today we: read for 15 minutes in French went to our learning buddies with the grade 1's did catch-up work to finish work from this week did math - we corrected our word problems and created our own when we were done exchanged our syllable puzzles

Reminders: Crazy hair day tomorrow French grammar homework due on Tuesday (day 2) Today we: had physical education with M. Trevor and we played a cooperation game did science - ask me what the function of leaves are! read for 25 minutes in English finished the book Fatty Legs and in English we had partners and wrote about why every child matters - ask me what I wrote! finished our syllable puzzles in French and when we were done we got to make other people's puzzles Making syllable puzzles had a "number talk" in math on algebraic equations started our French grammar homework - if we are done we need to check the spelling at home

Today we: corrected our English grammar wrote about Julie et le Bonhomme Sept-Heures read in French 25 minutes made a prediction in science on an experiment where we planted 3 plants - ask me about the experiment! did problem solving in math on algebraic equations. For word problems we are following 7 steps to understand the problem.  finished our great horned owls (most of us finished) Our creative great horned owls

Reminders: English grammar homework due tomorrow (Long and short A vowels) Today we: had Streams of Dreams - it was about saving fish in our rivers and putting the right stuff down the drain. Only rain down the drain.  learned about having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset - ask me the difference! read for 15 minutes in English changed desks and jobs for the month had gym with M. Trevor finished reading our book Julie et le Bonhomme Sept-Heures and now we are starting to either re-write the ending or we are adding a chapter to the book went to the learning commons to get new books