'Twas the Last Week Before Christmas

I can't believe the last week of December is here! Here is a list of this week's events and activities. I am sending this out on Saturday in hope that it will reach everyone by email before the week begins. Unfortunately, there seems to be some sort of delay from when I write on the blog to when the emails are sent out. I don't have any control over this and I apologize if the information is getting to you too late.

Monday

Advent Liturgy for Week #3-Joy at 1:30

Tuesday

Junior Craft Morning-please wear old clothing. We will be using permanent paint and markers. I am looking for any volunteers who wouldn't mind supervising a craft table with my grade 6 class.

Wednesday

Grade 6 retreat to Divine infant has been CANCELLED. We will be rescheduling for sometime in January. We apologize for the short notice. Please send your child to school with a lunch on Wednesday and it will be classes as usual.

Thursday

Junior Advent Liturgy for Week #4-Love at 10:00

Sing-a-long 10:50-11:50 

Our grade 6 class and Ms.Zurwerra's 5/6 class will be singing and signing Mary Did You Know. Please practice the signs at home.

The Breakdown Video

Mary Did You Know

Friday

PJ & Movie afternoon for Junior Students

iWalk Day Tomorrow

Wednesday, December 13th is iWalk Day! It is a day on which we encourage students to walk or wheel to school as part of our Active Transportation and healthy lifestyles goals for our school. All students who are able to walk, bike, roller blade, scooter, or wheel to school are encouraged to do so. If you can't walk or wheel the whole way, we invite you to Drive to 5! This is a concept in which students are encouraged to drive to a location close to school, and walk the remaining distance to school. We now only have 1 location for Wednesdays which is the Parking lot of Marcel Lalande Park, 2157 Northlands Drive

Important Information for Wednesday, December 13th

Grade 6 PJ Day

The grade 6 class has earned a reward for working so hard this year. We will be celebrating by having a PJ day. Please ensure your son/daughter is wearing a fresh pair of PJ's when they leave home in the morning.

Grade 4 Commercial Work Period
The grade 4 class has been working hard on their cereal box assignment. Tomorrow is supposed to be their last day to make their commercials. If they are working hard and a bit more time, I will happily provide them with extra time. If your child requires any special clothing or props, please ensure they bring them to school on Wednesday.

Mrs.Marchant

Grade 4 Geometry Quiz

The Grade 4s have been preparing for their quiz for the past few weeks. I feel they are more than ready to write tomorrow. I have made sure their red duotangs were sent home today so that they can review for tomorrow. I have included pics of some of our anchor charts as well as a strategt=y for answering problem-solving questions.

For the quiz, students will need to know:

• benchmark angles (90 degrees-right angle), straight line (180 degrees), acute (less than 90 degrees), and obtuse (greater than 90 degrees)
• identify a benchmark angle on a picture or real life example
• types of lines (Ex. perpendicular, parallel, intersecting, etc)
• identify all lines of symmetry on a 2D shape as well as draw the other half of a symmetrical object
• identify different quadrilaterals based on their characteristics (Ex. a quadrilateral with 2 pairs of parallel lines is a parallelogram OR a quadrilateral with 1 pair of parallel lines, 2 acute, and 2 obtuse angles is a trapezoid)
• Students should be able to identify different quadrilaterals based on their pictures
• compare polygon (2D shape with 3 sides) to a quadrilateral (2D shape with 4 sides)
• understand that there are different types of parallelograms (rhombus, rectangle, square)

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.