Monday, September 10

Hello all! I have survived five full days of school with your children and I am delighted to say that they are all pretty special.
We have been getting used to the new environment, rules, expectations, and silliness that comes from the teacher. The morning routine is:
come in and say hello, hang up backpack and coat, take out agenda, copy the sentence(s) of the day in the day's date, do the math questions if finished early, occasionally do a 1 minute jog repeating the French words M. Pask yells out, do 1 minute of exercise (squats, j-jacks, mtn climbers, pushups, situps, burpees), add the class' exercise minutes to the running total, update the calendar, at to the running total of school days, practice/learn some new vocabulary or math, read, share.
This routine takes place at the back of the class on the green carpet. Once done, we move to our desks and begin math and then social. After recess, the students have their snack before either, health, math, science or social begins.
After the lunch recess, the kids come in and eat while a French movie is playing. 15 minutes of reading and then either music or gym. We always end the day off with French language arts and a little writing in our agenda.
This is all to give you an idea of what we do in a day. I will add specifics as the year progresses. This will also give you the chance to pose specific questions to your child when engaging them about their day. I will always try to add photos of learning or any activities we might do.
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After the morning routine we spent some time in the computer lab and typed a little bit. Next, we finished off our art projects from Friday afternoon.

 After lunch we had gym and then we learned about the different body parts in French. After the afternoon recess, I told a story in French about Tony and his bike ride to the store. He was starving and decided to bike to get something from the store. He left his bike outside, went in and decided on a grape slurpee and a bag of jelly beans. He paid 1.25$ with quarters that he counted out by 25s as he laid them on the counter. He left the store, said goodbye to the cashier through the window and noticed his bike had been taken. He got very upset as he realized his father would be angry that he hadn't locked it. As he wept, he heard sirens and then he heard Constable Jean calling him over. He ran so fast he dropped his slurpee and when he arrived at the police officer's car he saw his bike and the thief in handcuffs. He returned home where his father noticed he had been crying. Tony said he was sad that he'd dropped his slurpee. The end. Next, the kids had to write a sentence and draw a picture from the story. Many had difficulty with the sentence so we will continue on this morning.
Ask you child about my  story to see how much he/she understood.
This is the kind of blog entry I will write. It allows you to be in the know and to communicate about specific learning with your child.
Here are some pics from library period last week: