This last week of January in Division 3

Dates and Reminders:

January 28th TENNIS Wednesdays start
January 29 to 31st - Literacy Week
First Week of February - BOOK FAIR
February 14 Pro D Day - No classes
February 17 Family Day - No classes
February 25th and 27th Career Expo Afternoon (Do you have an interesting career that you would like to share with students? We are opening our students' eyes to the possibilities out there. Contact Ms Bridal if you would like to share)

Funwork this week:

Math: We are becoming familiar with multiples and their patterns. Families can extend this conversation by looking for items that are counted in multiples; for example, items in a grocery store like toilet paper, in the garden like petals on a flower, or on a vehicle like wheels etc. Math is everywhere.

Language Arts: We will be selecting scripts to read in our theatre seating groups. Students will be working on reading fluently and with emotion. Students will also be working on the writing process: drafting, proofreading, editing, and refining their writing. The 6 traits of writing will be a focus:


French: Carnaval de Quebec and using cognates, words that sound like English, as well as non verbal language to navigate a second language, in this case, French.

Social Studies and Science: The cross curricular inquiry question that we will be investigating is: How have natural resources shaped and continue to shape the economy and identity of British Columbia's communities (eg. Sooke)? We will be doing a project on this to be presented at our April open house.

Assessments:
We completed a Science POP and it is available to view on Freshgrade.

Here's to a great week of learning.

Your teachers,
Ms Powers and Ms Bridal

This week in Division 3, January 20th to 24th

Dates to note in January:

January 23rd 12:30 Lunch Time Fire Drill (in case you are doing pick ups and drop offs at this time)
January 24th Crazy Hair and Socks Day (We are aiming to have all our students participate because it is FUN)
January 24th Whole School Assembly on Growth Mindset and GRIT!
January 28th to 30th Literacy Days at Poirier

Funwork this week:

Language Arts: We are continuing with our Readers Theatre theme. After reviewing the basic building blocks of sentences, parts of speech, we are now focusing on building paragraphs to summarize information. We will be writing regularly to develop this skill; the goal is improvement, so we will be establishing a baseline writing sample to measure our growth as individuals.

Math: Skip counting or using multiples is our focus. Lessons and links can be found under Math on the right hand side of this blog. For those of you who like your kids to do additional practice at home, here is a link to Khan Academy, an excellent site for Math support and practice.

Social Studies/Science: We will continue to investigate these key terms: natural resources, renewable versus non renewable resources, primary versus secondary industries. We will be focusing on resources and industries specific to Sooke and B.C.

French: We will continue to learn about Carnaval de Quebec (without snow to help us imagine how it is) and tune our ears to the French language.

Art: We are going to be painting a forest of Emily Carr-style trees.

Wild-wise will be presenting information on how to live alongside wild animals this week, an important lesson for us all in Sooke.

Here's to a great week with your amazing kids.

Your teachers,
Ms Bridal and Ms Powers

This week in Division 3, January 13th to 17th

Weather closures are announced on the district's webpage, twitter and facebook account as well as on local news programs. If it is not safe to travel to school on your road, please don't. Your safety is important. It looks like there is the possibility of snow this week so stay tuned.

Dates to note in January:

Tomorrow - Orders for "Be Kind" pink shirts due; cheques are payable to the Ecole Poirier PAC
Tomorrow - Blood drive in our school from noon on, so the gym will be closed; families and friends are welcome to donate.
Tomorrow - PAC meeting after school; all parents are welcome to join in
January 17th - PAC Hot Lunch - order online

Funwork this week:

Language Arts: We are continuing to work with reader's theatre scripts to build fluency but also to have some dramatic fun. Students will be working in pre-selected groups to choose a picture book or novel to re-write into a short reader's theatre. We will post these to Freshgrade when they are ready for presentation.

Math - We are continuing to look at time as a way to practice using operations and fractions/decimal fractions. You may want to calculate how many days, hours, minutes, seconds, that you have been alive like the kids have; you can use this site to check your math. This leads to questions like how many more days have I been alive than you have etc? Towards the end of the week we will look at repeated addition, skip counting, as a lead into multiplication.

Social Studies and Science - We will be looking at Canadian natural resources over the next month. This includes looking into the stories of Canadians who located and used them as well as looking at potential resources for the future which is very topical. Students will be doing a Wonder Hour to develop their inquiry skills.

P.E. - We are learning basketball, a sport that was invented in Canada. The school is also hosting extracurricular basketball practices and games.

French - We will be reading one picture book in French a week as well as looking at Carnaval de Quebec. This is to tune the students' ear to French and to familiarize them with the rich French Canadian culture in our country.

Here's to a great week of learning.

The power is going out...got to post this NOW.

Your teachers,
Ms Bridal and Ms Powers

This first week of 2020 in Division 3

Dates to note in January and February:

Jan. 6, Monday                             School is back (remember to bring your rain gear)

Jan. 17, Friday                              Fire Drill

Feb. 3-7                                       Book Fair here

Feb. 14, Friday                             Professional Development Day -No school for students

Feb. 17, Monday                          Family Day -No School

Funwork this week:

Math: We will be doing some review in the first week revisiting adding and subtracting larger numbers. Then, we will be looking at repeated addition, the precursor to multiplication.

Language Arts: We will review basic sentence structure. Then, we will be focusing on how to use punctuation to vary sentences and to feature dialogue in writing. Students will continue reading The Breadwinner. 

Science: We will be concluding our unit on solutions and solubility.

French: Christmas may be over, but Quebecers celebrate Carnaval du Quebec. We will be learning about this tradition and the language around it.

Art: We will look at Emily Carr and use her technique as inspiration to create a forest of trees for the classroom.

Here's to a great week back,

Your teachers, 

Ms Bridal and Ms Powers