Christmas Project

The  St. Clare Me to We Club is encouraging our students to “Pay it Forward” to students at another school as our Christmas project. Our Lady of Mount Carmel School is holding a Christmas Store for their students.  This enables students to purchase gifts for their family members.  All funds raised will be used to support the students at this school enabling them to go on field trips and to purchase school supplies and to provide food and clothing for families who need assistance.  A portion of the funds collected by the Christmas store will also be given to charity or another school in our board that requires support from the community. 

We are looking for gently used:

-jewelry- books- toys- christmas ornaments- and anything else you feel would be appropriate as a gift for the students to purchase

We need the donations sent to our school by December 15.

Thank you for your support! Merry Christmas!

Grade 6 Math Quiz-Patterning

Tomorrow the grade 6s will finally have their math quiz. They have been studying at school and most of them have taken their notebooks and duotangs home to study. For our quiz, they need to demonstrate the following:

• create a table of values for growing patterns, given pattern rules in words (ex.start with 3, then double each term and add 1 to get to the next term). 
• determine the term number of a given term in a growing pattern that is represented by a pattern rule, in words or table value.
• describe pattern rules that generate patterns by adding or subtracting a constant, or multiplying or dividing by a constant, to get to the next term (Ex. for 1, 3, 5, 7, 9..., the pattern rule is "start with 1 and add 2 to each term to get to the next term).
• determine a term, given its term number, by extending growing and shrinking patterns that are generated by adding or subtracting a constant, or multiplying or dividing by a constant, to get to the next term.

Here are some of the anchor charts posted in our room.

Severe Weather

There is currently a Winter Weather Travel Advisory in effect for the Ottawa area tonight according to the Weather Network. If the school buses are not running tomorrow (Snow Day), you can check your local radio station for updates, visit http://www.ottawaschoolbus.ca OR follow OSTA@OttSchoolBus on Twitter to stay informed of any cancellations. The school is still open regardless of what mother nature has in store for us.

Blog form is working again!

My apologies to anyone who submitted the form on the blog and did not get a response from me. Upon further investigation, the notification settings were somehow turned off. The notifications are now working and I look forward to hearing from anyone needing to contact me.

November Update

Bible Ceremony

Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who came out to our Bible Blessing Ceremony on Friday afternoon. It was great to see so many of you! The children were so excited to receive their very own bibles, and wanted to read them as soon as we got back to class! A big THANK YOU to school council as well, for purchasing the bibles, and to Mrs. Desjardins for inscribing them for each student. They were much appreciated.

Progress Reports

Last Thursday progress reports went home. Please send back the brown envelope with a signature so that we can use it to send the next two report cards home. If you wish to meet with me regarding your child(ren), please sign up online.  Just go to https://clare.youcanbook.me/, click on the name of the teacher you want to book with, choose a time, and fill in your name. Once you click "Confirm", the interview is booked and appears on my calendar. If you would prefer a telephone interview, or would rather meet at a different time, please send me a note through the blog. The information was sent home with progress reports. 

Grade 6 Keepsake Clothing

If your child would like to order clothing with everyone's signatures on it, please ensure that the form has been completed with payment by Wednesday, November 8th.

Student Portal. 

By clicking on the link, you and your child will be able to login to all of the sites OCSB has provided access to. All your child will need is their username (firstname.lastname@ocsbstudent.ca) and password (unique to your child).

Mathletics

Over the past few weeks, students have been introduced to a site called Mathletics. It is used to provide students with grade level practice questions for knowledge and understanding. In class, we will be focusing on solving "thinking" questions that cause students to use the skills they have learned and apply them to logic and problem-solving questions. I would like students to practice Mathletics for 20-30 minutes, 3 times per week as homework. The information collected is used for planning purposes. It allows me to see where students need extra practice and where there may be "gaps".

Friday at 10:30 a.m. we will be observing Remembrance Day with a liturgy. Parents are welcome to attend.

Math

Both grade 4 & 6 are working on our Patterning unit in Math. The grade 6s will have a quiz on Tuesday, November 14th and the grade 4s will have a quiz on Wednesday, November 15th. I will post more information with anchor charts in the next few days. Starting tomorrow, we will be working on a larger patterning assignment. Students will have 2 blocks to complete their work; collaboration is not required but is encouraged. Our next unit will be Geometry.

As part of our Math program, our school has been using a resource called "Number Talks". We have been working on strategies for addition in September and October. This week we started multiplication strategies (Ex. repetitive addition, factoring numbers, doubling half, etc).

Language

Grade 4: We have wrapped up our unit on Making Connections and will start a read aloud this week for Evaluating, a funny book named "Nibble, Nibble, Jenny Archer. The students will really enjoy it! 

Grade 6: We are reading Part II of Wonder (Via's perspective) in reading. As a writing component, students are working on writing a proper paragraph with 3-5 sentences using the ROPES (Restate question, Opinion, Proof and Evidence, Summary) strategy. Students have received feedback on "Halloween" responses in a student-teacher conference. Now students are asked to use that feedback to "bump up" to the next level. We will also have another session with Mrs. Campeau-Leblanc, the facilitator from the board who will help us to learn all of the ins and outs of Google Read and Write on Tuesday, November 7th.