May

Important Dates:
June 2 - Last early dismissal
June 4 - The Manitoba Museum - all day
June 8 - All library books due
June 9 - Compost Presentation - morning
June 12 - No school
June 18 - Farewell Assembly for Mme Hussey, parents welcome, 2:00 p.m.
June 19 - Special Lunch - hot dogs
June 25 - Assiniboine Park Conservatory (dress for the weather!)
June 29 - Last day of school, report cards

Please send clean sour cream/cottage cheese container LIDS to school for a special art project. Thanks!

We are finishing reading Charlotte's Web today. It is a really great book. We each had to present an oral report about a character we would want to be from the story. Here are our barn pictures.

Our plants are doing well. Some of them are getting taller and growing leaves. We continued to learn about multiple parts of the plants. For our design process, we researched and created a plant of our choice.

We were working with Dimitry to do our art project of La Terre. It took us three days to create the mosaic.

We made art of root vegetables that you can eat! They are different colours.

For math we have been learning about geometric shapes. We are making different geometric solids too. We worked a lot on problem solving and picking the right number operation.

For our study of Vikings, we learned that they made bread. We learned about their cooking utensils and how they make food. The women used to do all the cooking. They were able to make things with iron. They have two different types of boats, one for war and another for trading goods.

In French, we are starting to learn about aquatic animals. We have to practice a poem to present to the class. We made posters about the different sounds letters make in French words. (ai, on, ou, en, etc.)

In music we finished our recorder karate program. We are using Garage Band on the ipads to make a little song.

In gym we have been racing for track and field. We have also been playing soccer and dodgeball.

April

Katya - We have been learning about how we can help Beluga whales by not littering.
Victoria - We were practicing a poem about the Earth in French. We presented it in front of the class.
Marc - We are practicing Les trois petits cochons which is a play that we are presenting to the school.
Brooklynn - We are making posters to go with our play.
Janelle - For Earth Day, we had an assembly in the gym and there were lots of kids singing songs about the Earth. Mme DeSousa's class got to lead the other classes with songs.

Sarah - We have been learning about plants and Mme gave us a little booklet. On Monday, we will be planting seeds.
Ellowyn - We are learning about the parts of the plant: la fleur, la graine, la tige, la feuille et la racine.

Kiera - We have been studying Vikings on the map.
Aidan - The Vikings are Swedish, they come from Sweden, which is my ancestor's homeland!

Emily - We have been learning fractions.
Sydney - A fraction is a piece of something, like un demi, un tiers ou un quart.
Tommy - We were working on addition in the hundreds and in the tens.

Brooke - We have been reading Charlotte's Web.
Zandra - We have been looking at Charlotte's Web books and we had to guess what E.B.White stands for.  E.B.White is the author of Charlotte's Web.
Emily - We made a picture of a barn and the animals from Charlotte's Web.
Zachary - In our Charlotte's Web book we wrote these two paragraphs about the goose and Charlotte to describe them.
Kaila - We had to pick a mood. Then, we had to write a paragraph about the mood that we picked. Finally, we read it to a partner and they had to guess the mood that we picked.

Alanna - We have been making our Mother's Day gifts. Shhh!
Iesu - We did an art project using shapes. It takes time to do it!
Van - We saw the play about Emily Carr. She is a Canadian artist from a long time ago.
Katya - We watched both casts of the play American Pop Forever. They were both terrific!
Stealth - We have been playing songs on our recorders in music like Ode to Joy.
Haylee- We are having gym outside because the grades 4 and 5 students are doing a play about the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and the 90's.

Alexandra - School is the best!

Peggy- Lee & Joaquin were absent for this activity.

March Blog!

This morning, after reading a Robert Munsch book in French, we made desserts out of modelling clay. Tomorrow we will write about them.

We have been working on a French book, kind of like the Marvelous Me project we did, but in French. Two of the paragraphs that we wrote, we aren't allowed to say 'I' or 'we' and we had to convince people to like the subject. This is called persuasive writing. We also wrote a paragraph about an animal.

A few days ago we started on a projects with the iPads. Mme picked groups for us and we have special countries to research information. We will use Keynote to present our projects when we are done.

We learned about China. We celebrated Chinese New Year and we got an envelope with chocolate money in it. We also got to try a snack from China, dried melon with sugar. We learned about the folktale that told about the 4 dragons becoming the 4 rivers. We learned how to use chop sticks. We used the iPads to research information about China and present it to the class. Mme taught us how to say words and numbers in Mandarin, we also practiced writing characters. Mme O. brought in some statues from China and money from Asia. The statues from China are from the terracotta army.

In math, Mme has been playing a game to help us learn our multiplication faster. We learned division.  In math class we have been learning compatibles to 100. We've been studying how you can make shapes with number patterns. We had to make shapes into patterns. We learned repeating, increasing and decreasing patterns.

We read books to our book buddies. We had a list of questions and we interviewed our book buddies. Then we wrote a paragraph about our book buddies. We learned about poems and the words that rhymed were in a pattern.

We made an art project where we had to design a bridge using paper. We played badminton in the gym.

We went to the symphony. The cool part was that we got to sing along and we learned the song The Waving Flag. We wrote in our journals about the symphony. Choir students went to a church to sing in the Choir Festival. They sang Jim Along Josie and L'Oranger. The choir won silver!

-By the students of room102

January News by the Students of Room 102!

We are learning multiplication. To do a multiplication, you should think about it the easy way, for example 2 x 4 is 2 groups of 4 which is 8! The way Mme first taught us multiplication is for us to imagine groups of circles with objects in them that equal what you need to do. For multiplication we have a book that's called La multiplication where we practice. Mme gave us partners to make multiplication questions with pictures that show the answers on the iPads using Book Creator.

We have learned how to make an Inukshuk. Inukshuks are for when people can't find their way home, they show the way. Another art project we did was mitten art. We looked at beaded mittens and moccasins for the designs.

We started science centres which are really fun to do because you get to work with a group to discover new things. There are totem poles in the science centres and some people learned that totem poles have more than one face. We have been studying First Nations so most of the centres have that theme.

We are learning about building structures and different kinds of structures.  We watched a movie of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Mme read us a book where we would try to find the structures.

In French we wrote a paragraph about our stuffies on Fuzzy Buddy Day. We are starting a study of Robert Munsch books also. Mme DeSousa has also read us some Marc Tetro books.

We have been learning about fractured fairy tales so we can write our own. A fractured fairy tale is a mixed up fairy tale. You can have characters from different fairy tales in the same story. They are usually funny. Mme explained it to us like a broken fairy tale.

Our hockey art for the winter concert. 

Project Fair

• Project Fair - March 12, 2015
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• All students are encouraged to enter a display or project into the fair. The fair will include a variety of project categories: Creative Writing, Research, Science, Heritage and Mathematics.
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• There are guideline booklets which detail how to prepare a project on the school website at: http://assiniboine.sjsd.net.
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• To enter the fair simply fill in the entry form and bring it to your homeroom teacher.
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• Students are invited to come to the library from 11:45 - 12:25 for help organizing and preparing their project on the following days:
• January 28
• February 4
• February 11
• February 18
• February 25
• March 4
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• Email any questions you have about the project fair to Mme Lachance at: clachance@sjsd.net

Feed-A-Family

2014 FEED-A-FAMILY

Suggested Items for Food Hamper

Dear Families,

Thank you for your generous donations to help this family have a wonderful Christmas!

Food Items	Quantity required	Collected
Mac & Cheese	5 boxes	Done
Cake Mix	3 pkgs.	Done
Candy	2 pkgs.	Done
Cereal	1 large box	Done
Cheese slices	1 pkg.	Done
Cookies	2 pkgs.	Done
Cranberry Sauce	1 can	Done
Eggs	1 dozen	Done
Fruit	3 cans	Done
Jam	1 jar	Done
Jelly Powder	4 pkgs.	Done
Juice (100% juice)	3 L	Done
Milk	4L	Done
Nuts	1 can	Done
Oatmeal	2 pkgs.	Done
Apples & oranges	1 bag each	Done
Pancake Mix	1 pkgs.	Done
Pancake Syrup	1 bottle	Done
Pasta, whole grain	2 pkgs.	Done
Pasta Sauce	1 can	Done
Peanut Butter	2 jars	Done
Frozen vegetables	1 bag	Done
Stuffing	1 pkg.	Done
Rice	2 pkgs.	Done
Chocolate	1 pkg.	Done
Gravy	3 cans/pkgs.	Done
Scalloped potatoes	2 pkgs.	Done
Soup	4 cans	Done
Sugar	2  2kg bags	Done
Tea or Coffee	2 pkgs.	Done
Tuna	3 cans	Done
Turkey	10 lbs.	Done
Vegetables	4 cans	Done

Gifts for:

Boy - 3 months old: board book, truck, bath toys, home made pillow, pyjamas, bath towel set

Boy - 13 years old: drawing tools, sketch pad, basketball, sketchbook and coloured pencils

Girl - 19 years old: Urban Planet gift card, make-up kit, shampoo, Shopper's gift card
Mom - hat and Shopper's gift card

Extras: Baby food & cereal
Beans, stir fry vegetables, extra tuna, cereal, juice & soup

What do we believe?