Tootles!

We have been working at implementing PAX strategies in our French classroom. "Tootles" are a way of celebrating students' leadership behaviours in class; these certificates have gained lots of attention in our class these days!

A "tootle" is the opposite of a tattle. These certificates celebrate students' achievement in many ways in the classroom.

"Tootles" are on display in the French classroom.

"Tootles" are one of a number of strategies taught in PAX, the 'good behaviour game' which aims to create more peace, productivity, health and happiness in our classes.

On another note...

Last week, the Grade Five and Six classes identified and used strategies to assist in reading comprehension:

• mots-amis (words that look alike and are similar in meaning in French and in English)
• mots familiers (familiar words from previous learning in French)
• les images (pictures that support the text)
• context clues

We read through this unfamiliar text and learned a lot about a hockey hero, Henri Richard!

Students in Grade Three and Four have been doing some review and will be starting a unit on the family which will take us to Christmas. Students in Grade Seven and Eight are starting a fashion unit.

All students will be busy practicing for student-led conferences this week. I look forward to seeing students with their families!

Bonne semaine,

Mme Christensen

Mini-prof

Our Grade Three and Four students have been enjoying taking turns being the "mini-prof" which involves leading our calendar activity: 

Our mini-prof asks the class questions from this poster, below: 

Our Grade Three and Four class has been learning more ways to answer the question, Comment ça va? with phrases from this song we enjoy:

Comment ça va? by Julie Powers

Finally, we have been enjoying "Spin the Wheel"; the link is on the left on this page. How many questions can you answer?

Bonne fin de semaine!

Mme Christensen

Ne les oubliez pas. Remember them.

We stop to honour those who fought and sacrificed all on our behalf so that we could live the blessed lives we have today.

Veterans Affairs Canada has a website in French and in English that is an excellent source of information that helps us honour the sacrifices our veterans have made:

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/get-involved/remembrance-day/learning-resources

Bonne fin de semaine,

Mme Christensen

Adorable!!!

The Grade 7/8 finished their "Mémo-photos" projects this week and the results are...well, simply adorables!  Here are some exerpts from our projects:

Part of our task in describing our photos was to keep in mind the 5W's and give information on who, what, where, when, why and how, as much as possible; in French of course that would be qui, que, où, quand, pourquoi and comment.  We also discussed how to use -er verbs in our sentences in addition to verbs we already knew such as avoir and être.

We hope you enjoyed our memories!

This week we will be continuing some reading and speaking evaluations for our upcoming report cards before we begin new units of work.

À bientôt,
Mme Christensen