Structuring our Speeches

Students are working on their speeches in class for the concours d'art oratoire. Here's how the speeches should be structured so far:

Introduction

...élément accrocheuse (hook)

...intro personnelle (Bonjour, je m'appelle ...)

...3 idées principales (three main ideas)

1e idée

...mot de transition (transition word)

...idée (main idea of the paragraph)

...détails (supporting details)

...phrase de conclusion (concluding sentence)

Students are given ample time in class to work on their speeches but may need to work on it as well at home. Students will likely need to do some research at home throughout the week.

This Week in Social Studies

We are wrapping up our exploration into the lives of the First Peoples in Canada. Groups worked collaboratively to create posters that tell how different nations lived throughout Canada. We learned what types of food they ate and what they lived in. We are now looking at how they governed themselves. Next...the Europeans will arrive and we will talk about all the explorers.

We Love to Read

We've had some special guests lately. Thanks to Mr. Buhay and Mrs. Gerbrandt who donated their time to come share some books with us! Also, thanks to Mme Schmidt, a teacher in her final year at the University of Manitoba, who came to do an activity with her book. Later this week, Mme Clarke will come read, and one of M. Sorokowski's professors will also stop by to lead a literacy activity.

We've wrapped up our novel study on The Report Card and are working on summarizing what the book was about. We've started to read a book called Fake Mustache and will also begin doing independent novel studies in small groups.

Résoudre des équations

Here is the lesson from today.

Body Systems

We had a ton of fun reviewing our body systems today. Here are the diagrams we created.

Character Traits in The Report Card

We've been reading The Report Card by Andrew Clements in class. We're almost at the end of the book, so we've begun reflecting and identifying different character traits and plot elements. Today, using our new iPads (yay) we shared our ideas together. Students collaborated and used a website called Padlet to share their ideas.

Click here to see the full page, as it's a bit squished below! 

Created with Padlet

And here we are using our spiffy new iPads!

Conjugating ER Verbs (Present Tense)

Here's a video that explains how to conjugate verbs ending in ER in the present tense. Happy learning!