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