Mme. Macdonald

The students did a wonderful job performing La Nouvelle Maîtresse at the Carrefour this morning.  The adjudicators were  impressed with the students’ ability to memorize their lines and their ability to develop the personalities of their characters. Bravo les élèves!

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In English we are continuing to develop our reading skills by reading a variety of non-fiction texts.  In writing, we are writing to express our original ideas in an organized way with correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation (conventions).  Next week each student will be writing an original text that will be evaluated for our data [...]

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Today the students were given a review package for tomorrow’s test.  The instructions are written clearly for each of the operations and sample questions provided for each.  The answers are written at the back of the booklet for student’s to self-check their understanding. 

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Topics include:
reading and writing decimals, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with decimals.  Both the grade five and six textbook have revision pages at the end of the unit which will provide practice questions for the final evaluation.  We have been having mini-quizzes this week to allow the students to check their understanding of these concepts.  [...]

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Students have the responsibility to complete the following this week:
-Return signed discipline policy forms. (6 students)
-Return dentist forms if their parents don’t wish to have the dental assisstants check their teeth. (11 students)
-Complete their animal picture books. (7 students)
-Purchase a piece of bristol board for their country or environment project before Friday.  Project due date [...]

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Thank you to all parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends who helped transport our students to and from school last week.  I know many of you juggled your schedules to make this possible and I was very glad to see all of my students in class.

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Today in our class meeting we discussed the game of four square and this led into a discussion about friendship.  We talked about our problems and solutions to these problems.  We found we were able to be open and honest with each other and tried to see things from others’ perspectives.  We also talked about the importance [...]

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Today we read a recipe found in the Acadian newspaper and used it as a model to create our own.  Tomorrow we are going to conduct research in the lab to find delicious recipes.  The students are enthusiastic about baking while reading French recipes.  Perhaps we will also publish a bilingual cookbook of our favourites!

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Thank you for juggling your schedules today.  If you could please write a note to indicate the plans for your child getting home safely tomorrow, (and possibly for the duration of our present situation!) that would be most appreciated.

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The government has made a decision to cancel the bus transportation this Thursday and Friday due to safety concerns.  Please listen to the radio or watch Compass at 6:00 for further details.  (I know I will be!)  The school will be open and I will continue to teach.  The French Drama Festival will be rescheduled [...]

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