WDM ~A Christmas Long Ago

Overview: A teacher-led program for kindergarten students which provides students the opportunity to learn some of the ways of the festive season during pioneer times.  The teacher is provided with a written storyline for the story session.  The story, as it is told to the children, will be accompanied by a series of slides and specific artifacts along with an explanation and directions.  As well, students may place some old-fashioned decorations on the tree and/or look at some old-fashioned gifts handled by the teacher.

~Excerpt taken from WDM site here.

Les couronnes pour le jour de souvenir

Voici les couronnes.  These are wreaths made by our students with the help of our grade 7 and 8 care partners.   The children did a wonderful job tracing their hands.  Their partners helped in cutting out the hands and placing the hands in a wreath formation.  They were lovely.  The wreaths are displayed outside our classroom. We had a very thoughtful and honouring service Thursday morning for Remembrance Day.  Our students did well sitting, standing for "The Last Post" and "The Reverie" as well as the minute of silence. They showed respect during the ceremony and were very mature.  Bravo.  If you are looking for good sites for Remembrance Day resources for children you can visit:
Veterans' Affairs Kids Zone in English or zone d'enfants en français.

Activity Conferences

Cher Parents,

Kindergarten is different from Grades 1 – 8.  Although all the other students in the school will be receiving report cards in November, the Kindergarten students do not.  We evaluate throughout the year, however the first report cards in Kindergarten are sent out in March.  Activity conferences for our students will be held on Wednesday, November 28th.  Please sign up using the form that was sent home for a time as soon as possible. Please indicate your first and second choices for a session.

Your scheduled time will include a 45-minute session of activity stations for you and your child.  It is your child's chance to shine and show you what he or she knows.

I look forward to seeing you then.

Sincèrement,

Mme Wallace

Lecture pour le Jour de Souvenir ~Remembrance Reading

Here are some books we are reading this week.

I also recommend The Butter Battle Book.  One of the students took this book out as a favourite and I read it to the class.  Wonderful peace message and conversation starter. 

J'aime lire ces livres (Recommended Reading)

These books are about getting along with the exception of Frisson Ecureil (which is about getting along in the world and facing fears.)  I will be posting more French books throughout this blog.  Please leave a comment if you think of some titles I should add to a post.

O' Canada!

photo credit here.

We are currently working on O Canada booklets.
Here are the lyrics in French~les paroles:

Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.

Translation:
O Canada!
Land of our forefathers,
Thy brow is wreathed with a glorious garland of flowers.
As is thy arm ready to wield the sword,
So also is it ready to carry the cross.
Thy history is an epic
Of the most brilliant exploits.
Thy valour steeped in faith
Will protect our homes and our rights
Will protect our homes and our rights

A little bit of history of the national anthem~l'hymne nationale can be found here.

Les centres, les mots--la, le et les (sorting words), "Des os il en faut"

 Just a picture post  ~Les photos dans la classe