Merry Christmas

You're Invited!

Please join us to celebrate the Christmas season with a special performance just for you.

St Emily students will be presenting "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 at 7:00pm. Bring your family to get into the spirit of Christmas.

We hope to see you there!

White Elephant Sale

White Elephant Sale!

Friday, Dec 14

The Grade 6 students are holding St Emily's 4th annual White Elephant Sale to raise money for their year end trip.

We are asking the community to donate gently used items (books, toys, stuffed animals, CD's, movies, puzzles, games, Christmas knickknacks, new jewellery, crafts and household items).

Items will be marked between 25 cents and $3. 

Destiny Quest

Today at the library, we learned about Destiny Quest, an online search engine through our Ottawa Catholic School Board library. Our librarian explained how you can search and reserve books from our library.

Here is the link:
https://library.ocsb.ca

Top 8 Apps for Geometry

We have started our unit on Geometry.

If you have an iPad, here are some great apps I discovered :)

http://www.avatargeneration.com/2012/11/top-8-apps-for-geometry/

Great review about symmetry: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/symmetry-line-plane-shapes.html

Bullying - Le taxage et l'indimidation

It is Bully-Awareness week at St Emily!

There is a school-wide poster/video contest for students 

and there will be bully-prevention presentations.

First block today we "stopped-and-talked" about bullying. We watched some videos and discussed afterwards. We will continue to watch a video a day this week from  Learn360. I gave students their passwords (check in your "les devoirs" duo tang).

Jour de souvenir

For Remembrance Day, I am sharing with you photos from my summer trip to Normandy.

War of 1812

By National Film Board of Canada – Office national du film du Canada

An Interactive Graphic Novel for the iPad

Bring history to life with The Loxleys and the War of 1812, an immersive interactive graphic novel that follows a fictional family from Upper Canada torn apart by the conflict with the US some 200 years ago.

Based on the book from Renegade Arts Entertainment and re-imagined for the iPad by the National Film Board of Canada, this immersive interactive graphic novel brings history to life. 

Download free app from iTunes



Article from Canadian Heritage:

Harper Government Launches iPhone / iPad App for the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812

Halloween

Joyeux halloween!

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

Check out this video that was made by French Immersion students from Holy Trinity Catholic School.

Les couleurs de bases

In the month of September, we have been reviewing the visual art element of colour.

We began with an inquiry about how we can organize colours, based on our prior knowledge.

Here is what students discovered and collaborated in their groups.

We consolidated our learning by making colour wheels. 

This, we agreed, is the best way to organize colours!

Place Value Flip Chart

Last week, we consolidated our learning on the concept of Place Value by creating these flip charts.

Curriculum Nights

Thank you to all parents who have made it out last night for Curriculum Night.

Hope you enjoyed visiting your child's classroom. 

Check out our homeroom Avatars that we created on Weemee (iPad app).

Please read the postcards that the afternoon students have written for their parents. 

I had a great time meeting the parents of the students I teach. Looking forward to meeting more parents on Thursday Sept 20th.

We survived our First day!

I enjoyed meeting my students and learning new names and faces :)

Looking forward to learning more about everyone this week!

Here is what the afternoon class thought about their day:

Bienvenue!  

C'est le retour à l'école.

Welcome back to school!

Thank you for visiting our Grade 4 (room160) classroom website. 

This website caters to both my Gr 4 French Immersion homeroom and my Gr 4 English afternoon class.

Here you will be able to learn about what we do in both classes, find important notes/newsletters, parent info and much more.

Here students will be able to check their homework, important dates and discover educational links.

Nightmare at School by Catherine Arcand, National Film Board of Canada