La classe de Mme Nielsen

Students have two projects due in math/art: Videos to follow soon. Fractions (16cm by 16cm) which is past due... And a pixel art (1000 squares) which is due Monday so that we can use it for the next part on Tuesday...

This is the email that was sent home this morning: Hello families, A few things to note: 1. Your child is working with the recorder in music. Please send your child's recorder with them to school for music on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Mme Lorenz reports that most students in grade 5 (and many in grade 6) purchased them last year or the year before. If you require a recorder, Mme Lorenz has some quality new instruments for sale for $12. There are a LIMITED number of school recorders available when instruments are forgotten (Mme Lorenz cleans them after every use), but... flu season, anyone? 2. We are going to the musical Mama Mia on Thursday next week, and I'm still missing many permission forms. Tickets and bussing comes to $8/student. 3. Students have had a selection of 13 novels to choose from for our lit circle unit. They were welcome to bring 1-3 of these home over the winter break, but were not expected to have any read by January. I expected a book to be read t...

Tomorrow and Friday, students from our school will be building a whale. Yup, a WHALE. Out of REAL whale bones. Don't believe me? Check out the website: http://strawberryisle.org/research/build-whale They're coming to visit us, and each class will have 30 minutes with this crew. Our time is Friday morning.

Today we curled and did grammar. That is all. Here is the work we did together today. After little recess, we did planners, then the kids were expected to do the last sentence individually, following the example of the second to last sentence. Nouns and pronouns highlighted in blue; gender indicated for nouns Verbs highlighted in green; Verb name, verb tense, and person indicated for each verb Adjectives highlighted in pink; an arrow indicating which noun it is describing Adverbs highlighted in orange; an arrow indicating which verb, adverb, or adjective it is describing "Déterminant" (the, a, his...) highlighted in yellow; an arrow indicating which noun it determines Prepositions circled in orange Conjunctions circled in yellow Please ask your child how well they did, and how that is related to their efforts today.

Monday's  Science project. To be done at home due to space constraints. The students received this information in French, but I've translated it in English for parents. Students are allowed to work alone, in pairs or in trios only. Students have been encouraged to finish their filming before next week so that they have time to edit their presentations. What is the problem? Catch the Christmas Elf with a Rube Goldberg Machine made at home, with items typically found at home or at school. You may use only one finger only one time for only one second to start your machine. What are the important criteria? All the simple machines we studied must be incorporated in the machine: Lever Incline plane Wheel and axis Screw and wedge Pulley There are bonus points for using all three classes of lever. What are the possible solutions? Brainstorm materials that can be used for each of the simple machines. List different ways you can catch the Elf. Think a...

Here is a link to Canada's Student Vote results:  https://studentvote.ca/results/canada2019/ You can follow links to see how BC's students voted, Nanaimo's students, and even Quarterway's students... VERY interesting stuff.

Here are the words: qui  quoi   quand  o ù (endroit)   hier   pourquoi   comment   maintenant   aujourd’hui   demain   avec  sans  ici  o u (un choix)   là (endroit)   beaucoup   peu   encore   entre   ensuite   avant  après  d’abord  aussitôt que  plus que   moins que   premièrement   finalement   en conclusion   évidement   deuxièmement  puis  lorsque  également  aussi   dès que   soudain  parfois  mais  ainsi