La Francomobile

Learn French while having fun!   Developed specifically for 7-12 years by experts, The Francomobile is an iPad app for learning French. It presents more than 200 words of everyday vocabulary , oral and written , in authentic contexts. Everything to transform the use of iPad into a fun learning opportunity 40 video capsules 3 minutes more than 20 hours of interactive activities engaging characters ...

In our classroom for the upcoming weeks

Newsletter to grade 4/5

For the past few months grade 4/5 has been busy working on documenting their learning while developing their collaboration and listening skills in French Immersion class. The students are almost done their Science projects, they will need to finish editing their descriptive/informative texts then include them in the Google slide with illustration to explain their thinking. The grade four is also working on a diorama of their animal's habitat and they will create a stop motion video of it. The grade five will finish the model of their human body system and document it with the app. 30 Hands. 

In the next month...

Grade 4 - The students will learn more about mapping skills while creating a few different maps of Canada and maps of two of its regions. The focus will be land features and comparing two regions with different elevations, resources, climate etc...

Grade 5 - The students will learn more about Canada's governments while trying to find which level of government is responsible to find solutions to the problems they have found while investigating one of Canada's region.

Grade 4 and 5

The Arts- In Visual Arts, we will continue to explore lines and colors. In Music, we will work with boomwhackers and also explore various web based music sites.

 

Our Classroom Door!

This year as we did in the past it is time for our door decoration contest. Our theme this year is "Advent and Christmas traditions around the world". Here is our class' inspiration ... The tradition being hanging stockings and the wreath as a Christmas symbol! 

Here are a few past doors my classes decorated!

Great Site with a variety of French resources!

Check out http://www.tfo.org/ for a variety of French resources such as videos, reading lists, children series, reports, songs for kids and games and apps! Worth looking at...

Picture Retake Day on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH

Color Wheel

We are making 2D color wheels! If you have any colorful materials to share please send it to school with your student. Thank-you!
Here are some examples

Great site for French Apps, texts, songs and vidéos

Great site!

Explore the world of French vocabulary in this sound integrated guide. Touch or place your cursor over an object, word, or phrase to hear it pronounced aloud. Prove your vocabulary mastery by completing challenges.

Curriculum Night

Thank-you to the many parents who came to our Curriculum Night! It was great to meet each and everyone of you. Please find below the link to our presentation.

Curriculum Night Presentation

Welcome to your class grade 4/5!

Welcome back

School starts September 8th. See you then!

Have a Safe and Happy Summer!

Hope your summer is full of fun!

The iPad is a great tool for year-round learning

http://www.imore.com/how-help-your-child-beat-summer-slide-ipad

Grade 5 Field Trip to Parliament

Parents please join us on this Grade 5 field trip!

                             See you on Tuesday May 26th

La chanson du café français

À la claire fontaine!

It's one day to earth hour 2015!

Earth Hour 2015 is about getting everyone to use #YourPower to 

change climate change. 

You are invited to take action and join the global movement today at 

http://earthhour.org/join-the-movement.

Virtual Field Trip to the deserts and grasslands Africa!

Students were part of a virtual field trip to Kenya today!

Link to Virtual Field Trip

• We learned that there are 1.1 billion people in Africa. 
• We saw elephants, zebra, giraffe and many types of birds.
• The scientist in Africa said that there are beautiful grasslands and that the animals depend on them. 
• We now know that Burkina Faso is in West Africa and Kenya is East Africa.

The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge

Students are so excited to participate in 

The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge!

In teams the Students have chosen their challenge and the level of difficulty and they are working towards attaining their goal and points for the classroom.

http://energydiet.canadiangeographic.ca

A reflexion question

Comment les symboles représentent-ils la fierté d'une ville/une province/un pays?

Bonne Année!

Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in the New Year!