Bonjour!
I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend!
Here are today's lessons:
Environment and Community Awareness
Numeracy
Outcomes:
-explores and investigates objects and events in the environment.
-shows awareness of similarities and differences in living things, objects and materials.
-counting
Materials
Magnifying glass if available There are apps available for cell phones that enable your cell phone to work as a magnifier.
Directions
-Explain that insects have a head, thorax and abdomen and six legs and antennae. You can sing the following song to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down to help them remember:
Head and thorax, abdomen. Abdomen, abdomen.
Head and thorax, abdomen. That's an insect.
Every insect has six legs, has six legs, has six legs.
Every insect has six legs, That's an insect.
Antennae to feel their way, feel their way, feel their way.
Antennae to feel their way, That's an insect.
-Explore outside and look for "insects". See if the creature qualifies as an insect or not.
- Once inside, draw a picture of the insect that they saw in their visual journal. If you didn't see any, draw one that perhaps you might see that would meet the criteria to be an insect.

Physical Skills and Well-Being
Literacy
Outcomes:
-experiences and develops locomotor skills through a variety of activities; e.g., walking, running, hopping, jumping, leaping, rolling, skipping, galloping, climbing, sliding
-reads own first name and recognizes the letters in one's own name
Directions
-Your child will spell out their full name and complete the activity listed for each letter. For a greater challenge include their middle name and do each one twice.

Michael

Here are our students of the day!

Kian

Bonjour! Happy Friday! Have a blessed weekend!
Here are today's lessons!

Physical Skills and Well-Being
Outcomes:
-gross motor skills
Directions:
-placemats or sheets of paper, pillows,etc.) to be stepping stones through the lava
-cards with numbers on them
-scatter your "stepping stones" around on the floor of whatever room you want to play in.
-designate a safe until all of the cards have been recovered. Celebrate your triumph over the lava!arting spot to be 'home".
-scatter the number cards around the floor, preferably on the opposite side of your lava river from your "home".
-explain to your child that you're going to pretend that the floor is lava, and their job is to rescue the cards from the lava one by one.
-call out a number for your child to rescue. They can only step on the stepping stones. If they successfully get to the card, pick it up, and return to "home "without touching the floor, they get to keep the card and get a point.
-if they touch the lava at any time, they must put the card down (if they have already gotten it), and return to "home" to try again.
-continue calling out cards for your child to rescue

Physical Skills and Well-Being
Outcomes:
Experiences and develops locomotor activities through a variety of activities.
-Demonstrates body and space awareness.
Here are two links for some weekend yoga!

Frozen Yoga
https://youtu.be/xlg052EKMtk
Pokemon Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCjkPlsaes

Today's students of the day:

Daniella

Aiden

Otto

Bonjour!
Wishing you all a very blessed day filled with good health and cooperative children!
Today's lessons:
Literacy
Outcomes:
-explores thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences
-clarifies and extends
Directions:
-Choose two of your favourite stuffies or toys and make up a little play about an adventure that they had.
-present your play to someone
-draw a picture of what your play was about.
Numeracy
Outcomes:
-Recognizes the difference between a circle, square and triangle
-Relates a numeral to its quantity
Directions:
Draw a square, circle and triangle on a sheet of paper like the image shown or print off the image.
discuss properties of each shape ( eg. How many sides does a triangle have? How many sides does a square have? Is one side longer than another?) You could also introduce rectangles and discuss how the are different from squares.
Once the student has traced the shape and then drawn one themselves ask them to count how many circles that they can see in the room that they are in? Triangles? Squares?

Today's students of the day:

Melia

Rowan

Bonjour!
Have a blessed day everyone!
Today's lessons:
Numeracy
Outcomes:
-concepts of floating and sinking
-predictions
-estimation
Materials:
-containers of any sort
-stones or some sort of waterproof objects
-sink, bathtub or large tub
Directions:
Kids just generally like to slop around in water! This activity can be done inside or outside.
-give the child a large container of water outside or plop them in the bathtub inside!
-give them containers that could be "boats".
-have them estimate how many stones or other weights it would take to sink their boat.
 -predict which container takes the most stones to sink it.
- ask them if they removed the boat from the water how many stones could they fit in their boat.
-make up a story about their boat on the water.
Numeracy
Outcomes:
-sort 3-D objects, using a single attribute
-sort a set of objects based on a single attribute, and explain the sorting rule
Directions:
Students are to find something in their own bedroom to sort and organize. I would like before and after photos if possible. Examples could be:
-sort your sock drawer. How would you sort them? According to length?Colour?
-sort your lego according to size? Colour? Length?
-sort the clothing hanging in your closet according to items such as pants, shirts or according to colour?
-sort your books according to colour, subject, favourites etc?
Today's students of the day:

                                   Thomas                                                                            Charlie

Bonjour!
A beautiful Spring day! Yahoo!
Here are today's lessons:
Literacy
Most children would prefer to write in capital letters because they are mostly formed with straight lines but alas... we need to practice those lower case letters.
Outcomes:
-recognizes capital and lower case letters.
-capitalizes first letter of own name
Directions:
Follow the direction of which way to form letters given in the example sheet. Have your child write their name beginning with a capital letter and then followed by lower case. They may resist if they have been starting at the bottom of their letters but just tell them that this came straight from Mme Jane! :) You can then have them practice a letter a day. I'd love photos if possible!

Creative Expression
Outcomes:
-becomes aware of how artists use such elements as line colour and pattern to express ideas.
experiments with line, colour, shape, texture and pattern in diverse media to explore and express ideas..
Materials:
-Primary colours in whatever medium you choose - coloured pencils, markers, crayons, paint
-white paper
-black marker or other medium in black
-straight edge or ruler
-pencil
Directions:
-Google the art works of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian during his Neo-Plasticism period. Two very famous of his paintings are Broadway Boogie Woogie and Trafalgar Square.
-Explain that they are going to create a series of squares and rectangles on the paper with their pencil first.
-Create their own work of art in the spirit of Mondrian and use black lines between the shapes.

Today's students of the day:

Elliana




       




                                       Rowbug

Bonjour everyone,
I hope that you all had a blessed restful and healthy Easter break.
 Here are our lessons for today:

Literacy
Outcomes:
-connects oral language with print and pictures.
-attends to print cues when stories are read aloud.
-participates in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as picture books, fairy tales, rhymes, stories, photographs, illustrations and video programs.

Mme Amanda asked if she could read you all a story! Here she is!
https://youtu.be/Cu0uxhDFfr4

Numeracy
Outcomes:
-represent and describe numbers 2 to 10, concretely and pictorially.

-use patters to describe the world and to solve problems.
Directions:
Using paper plates or pieces of paper, arrange the numerals as they would appear on a telephone. Say the child's telephone number aloud a few times and then break it down number by number. Give the child a strip of paper with the numbers written across. See if they can find the numbers on their "phone" on the wall. When they can start to time them. Children love to be timed.

Here are today's students of the day!

Maria and her new baby brother Karlos! Congratulations!

   




  Rachel

Have a blessed Holy Thursday everyone and a very joyful Easter holiday!

This morning I made one (actually many) final attempt to attach the Holy Thursday Power Point to this blog or even to an email. Alas, no luck. If you would like to attend a virtual mass with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary the link is catholicyyc.ca. It is at 7pm this evening.

Today instead of giving you lessons, I am going to give you some amazing links that you could watch as a family over the Easter break. After taking a virtual tour of the Space Station I realized that there is no way that I could ever work in such a confined space. Major claustrophobia! It was however very cool! Many thanks to our wonderful librarian, Mme Amanda for sharing those links with us!

NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-virtual-tours-and-augmented-reality

Engineering Challenges
https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/resources/challenge-cards.html

Chris Hatfield
https://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/activities/default.asp

Our students of the day are:   
                                                   

Elliana

                 

Rowan

Daniella

Charlie

                                                                                       

Otto

Gustavo

           

The Callin Brothers