Thursday, September 24, 2020

Reminders for the 24th of September

 • Students will have a quiz on Tuesday on rounding "arrondir les chiffres" to the nearest dizaine (tens), centaine (hundreds), unité de mille (thousands) and centaine de mille (hundred thousands)

• Please bring back white package of parent forms. 

• Glue or tape a picture into your "carnet d'écriture" of a moment in time that you can write about. For example, I glued a picture of me in grade 2 on a cruise ship with my dad.

• Students have a quiz next Friday on the verbs Faire and Aller

• If students aren't finished their French writing on "une personne importante et mes souvenirs de cette personne" in their writing notebook "carnet d'écriture" then that's also homework. Due Monday.









Example Math quiz questions:









Friday, September 18, 2020

Rappel - le 23 septembre

Homework:
- les expressions poster
- return envelope with student information, and return new package of signed forms
- no school Friday 
- read for 20 minutes in French
- avoir/être test next Friday (to practice and memorize: 
 

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Rappel - le 17 septembre

 - students are continuing working on their lists in their "carnets d'écriture.

- an envelope with personal information was sent home. Please return with verification signature. 


Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Rappel - le 16 septembre

- Math 5 - page 42 #1, 2, 3, 7, 10

- Math 6 - page 38 #1-5, 7 

- return envelope 

- return purple, yellow, green forms

- read 20 minutes in French (or more)! We are challenging ourselves, as a class, to read 40 books each.





Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Rappel - le 15 septembre

 - Note: Madame made a mistake: 

Rather than bring agenda money to school our school is asking that we pay online. Thank you for adjusting to this change and for understanding. An email with information regarding this will be sent out to parents.


- Forms (see 14th septembre)

- Binders, duotangs, folders needed at school.

- New: Read in French for 20 minutes.

Monday, September 14, 2020

Rappel: Le 14 septembre

-  $5 pour agendas

- Daily Health check form signed and returned

- Green, yellow, purple permission forms

- Decorative "materials" -- photos, washi tape, pictures -- to decorate and personalize Carnets d'écriture (Writer's notebooks)

- Bring school supplies (binder, divider tabs, 1 folder with pockets, French dictionary, Bescherelle book, 3 duotangs)


Tuesday, March 31, 2020


Dear Division 5 families,

This is a reminder for parents to please sign up @ https://bes.parentteacherconferences.net/ to set up a block of time that works for you to connect with me via a phone call. I will be calling you at that time with my home phone.

If you can't find a time that works for you, please let me know at abournelis@sd35.bc.ca and I'll be happy to follow up with you. 

The online booking calendar is now open and will remain open until Wednesday, April 1st at noon. 


Also, you can check out my link page http://bournelis.blogspot.com/p/links.html if you haven't already for resources and activities that can be accessed from home. These are not mandatory but are hopefully helpful for the time being. 

I look forward to connecting. Take care & talk to you soon! 




Monday, March 9, 2020

Reminders: Last week of school before Spring Break

• Students have adding fractions homework due on Tuesday
• Bring rock to school to make jewellery
• Vote for Meat Free Week and Bottle Drive
• Letter to Madame due tomorrow (about book you are currently reading)


Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Week of Feb 25 Reminders

• Grade 6 students have a band concert tonight at Brookswood Secondary
• Students have to complete their Diversity Day puzzle piece tomorrow. It is homework.
• Students' fractions tests were marked and will be returned in class tomorrow. We will be going over corrections and students wishing to improve their mark can write a re-test on Friday.'
• Please sign and return our time-sensitive media forms for our Green Team project!

Click Here to Practice Simplified Fractions (PACMAN game)
Jeu de Pizza


Monday, February 17, 2020

Week of February 18th reminders

• Spelling test - "roches" words on Friday
• Students who haven't conducted their first club event need to do so this week.
• Students have a group social studies project (sciences humaines) - Operation #GreenTeam - due on February 26th.
• Students are working on simplifying fractions, writing equivalent fractions, and converting fractions, decimals and percentages in Math and will continue to practice these skills in class. They have an open book test on Tuesday, February 25th
• Our speech presentations deadline will be moved to Friday, February 21st to give students some more time to practice delivery and to look more carefully at the rubric.
See the rubric below:
by clicking this link!


Sunday, February 9, 2020

Week of February 10th reminders

• Our class is walking to see the theatre production of Matilda at Brookswood secondary at 11:00am
• Our class has been learning about fossils and will begin studying about minerals this week
• Our class has been reviewing Passé Composé verbs. There will be no quiz this Thursday.
• Students' spelling words this week come from our Rocks and Minerals unit. The quiz will take place on Thursday since Friday is a Pro-D.
• Passion projects are due on Tuesday, January 11th. Thank you to our wonderful librarians for their help in finding books!
• Our speech presentations will take place on February 19th



Evaluation for Passion Project Slides                                                                            Name:___________________________________
Total mark:    /16 for writing on slides;   /4 marks for ‘on time’ completion     Total:     /20 marks

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Meaning
Unclear focus.
Your slides go off-topic.
Some info is copied. Some info might be inaccurate/wrong.

1-2 paragraphs.
You include details but some of your information is incorrect.
Your focus may wander (for example: at first you wrote about cars, and then you wrote about guitars).
3-4 paragraphs.
Purpose is clear, and writing is generally focused, generally accurate, complete, in own words

Some relevant details and examples

Project is focused around a clear purpose. Information is well-chosen, detailed, in own words; may use more than one source/website/library books/interviews.

6+ paragraphs.

Style
Simple, repetitive language; may misuse terms.
Sentences are often short and repetitive

Language is simple. Sentence length may be varied – sometimes long, sometimes short; relies on a few basic patterns.

Language is clear; some variety and description. Some “Triple Scoop” words. Variety of sentence lengths; may vary sentence beginnings, try different conjunctions (therefore, in conclusion, furthermore, etc.)
Language is clear and varied; some precise, expressive, or figurative, poetic language.

Flows smoothly, with a variety of sentence lengths and patterns.

Form
Text features (e.g., titles, headings, diagrams, illustrations) are missing or inappropriate.

No title page to identify purpose. No final page with conclusion.

Text features (e.g., titles, headings, diagrams, illustrations) are included; may be flawed or not well connected to text.

Introduction states purpose.

Very short conclusion (less than 4 sentences).

You include titles, headings, diagrams, illustrations are included with few errors. Your first title page slide clearly presents purpose.

Paragraphs have main ideas and some supporting detail.

Conclusion makes sense and is more than 4 sentences long.

Required text features (e.g., titles, headings, diagrams, illustrations) are clear, effective, well-constructed, and connected to your topic.
Your first page introduces your topic and effectively establishes purpose and engages the audience

Paragraphs have main ideas developed with supporting detail.

Conclusion sums up the information in more than 4 sentences; may attempt to have impact

Conventions
Many spelling/typing mistakes.
Some noticeable errors; these may cause the reader to hesitate or reread parts to make sense of what you wrote.



Few errors; these do not interfere with your reader’s understanding of what you wrote.

Sense of control; few errors; these are usually the result of taking risks to use complex language and structures. You tried, for example, to use semicolons (;) and CATDOO words. You also obviously used POMMES.



Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Week of January 26: Reminders

• Verbs of the week: trier (to sort) and déchiqueter (to shred)
• Spelling word pattern: most nouns that end in "al" become "aux" in plural form
un animal, des animaux

• Presentation of speeches takes place on February 19th
• Passion projects are due on February 10th
• Students are working on club reflections
• In Math, students have just completed a unit on Order of Operations
• Students have completed a worksheet distinguishing between different stages in the rock cycle.
• Some students still owe outstanding homework for French writing (design "un jacket de livre" for one of the books you've read)
• We are swimming at the Walnut Grove pool on February 7th (thank you, volunteer drivers!)
• We are walking to Brookswood secondary to watch Matilda on Feburary 10th




Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Reminders: Week of January 21

• Spelling word pattern: Most French nouns ending in "al" take on "aux" in plural form. un animal -> des animaux
• Passion projects due on February 10th
• Permission forms for Matilda @ Brookswood on February 10th
• Permission forms for swimming pool on February 7th
• Book jackets are due (as of Friday)
• 19th February speech presentations. Students may read off of cue cards. Grade 5 speeches are in English. Grade 6 are in French. More details to follow.




Sunday, January 12, 2020

Reminders: Week of January 13

• Spelling quiz on Friday - géo + logue word pattern
• Verb quiz -- offrir, couvrir, souffrir, offrir
• Passion Project 2.0 due February 10
• Design a book "jacket" - rough copy due Wednesday. Good copy due Friday.
• Wear warm clothes to school :)


Club Reflection  
Congratulations for conceptualizing and carrying out a “Club” event.
So far, you’ve distributed roles in your groups. You’ve written a club proposal to our principal.

You generated a powerpoint explaining your club’s goals. And, you’ve communicated with your teacher to establish a date, time, and location for your first club event. 
Now it’s time to reflect.
Answer on a separate sheet of lined paper.
What did you do during your first club event? (Minimum 30 words).

Who in your group showed the leadership skills? Explain your answer. (Minimum 20 words).What worked well during your first club event? (minimum 20 words) 

What positive behaviours did your club members show? Where they respectful? Cooperative? Helpful? Organized? Explain your answer (minimum 15 words).

What would make your club even better? (minimum 15 words)


Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Reminders: week of Jan 6

• Please return green walking field trip/parent driver forms
• Students have a one-page assignment/reading on "les géologues"
• spelling test Friday, Jan 17: word patterns: géo + logue . [géo = la Terre; logue = connaissance de]
• 2040 Time Capsule project due Friday, Jan 10
• Students keep track of how much plastic, glass, organic, and paper waste they go through this week for Sciences Humaines.
• Factors page (Math) - due Thursday



Walking Field Trip Reminder
Bonjour, les parents,

This Friday (January 10th) we will be going for a walk to Brookswood park (4078 200 St, Langley City, BC V3A 7S8) at around 1:15pm.  


September 26 Reminders

1. Orange Shirt Day assembly on Thursday (practice reading your poem) 2. Where I Come From Poem good copy due on Wednesday 3. Spelling test ...