Mme. Macdonald

I am currently collecting money to pay for our tickets for the Christmas play at Confederation Centre on December 5th. The cost is $6.00. Thank you in advance. We are looking forward to the experience.

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Hello all!
Just a quick note to remind you to come out on Saturday to our Christmas Fair. There will be lots of fun activities for the students and shopping for crafts for the parents. There will be face painting, a cake walk and human bingo. The choir will be performing. [...]

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French spelling tests
 We have begun to have weekly spelling tests in French.  The students are aware of the subject of the test early in the week and have all week to prepare for Friday’s test.  This week we concentrated on the verb être ( au présent, au passé composé, à l’imparfait et au futur).  Several students [...]

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Salut tout le monde,
Here is an update of what the students in our class have been working on recently.
FRENCH
Almost all students presented a speech from the point of view of a famous person. They read texts about the person, took notes and wrote the final version on cue cards as if they themselves were [...]

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In French, the students have been reading a series of French children books which many of them remember from their primary grades.  We have discussed the elements which the books have in common and now the students will be writing original versions using the characters found in these books as well as introducing new characters [...]

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The students have demonstrated wonderful organizational and cooperative work skills during the initial stages of our literature circles.  They are working in  groups of two, three and four students.  They have planned out the amount of reading and assigned roles for our unit which will be accomplished during the period of October 3oth – November 16th.  We [...]

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Our unit test on multiplication is set for Monday, November 5.  The review pages at the end of the unit provide examples of questions which will appear on the test.  The tests will also review addition, subtraction and  place value.  For grade five students the review pages are:  86, 87 and 88.  For grade six [...]

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