About Me

Welcome to another school year at St. Francis of Assisi! I am looking forward to teaching and being a part of your child’s Grade 3/4 school year experiences. I have been teaching for about 20 years, mostly with the Ottawa Catholic School Board. My first teaching assignments ranged from an isolated northern Quebec, a Montessori school, and a school for students having very serious needs. My wife Eve and I have two boys. Olivier is 11 and Emile is 13 years old. My motto is "See the tree in every acorn" because students remind me of how that tiny acorn that may get overlooked has the potential to grow into the mighty oak. If we believe in students and nurture that excitement of learning, there's no telling what mighty oaks they may become!

Monday, 7 March 2016

March 7, 2016

This Week's Homework below

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT






SECRET QUESTIONS

Write to Mr L your answer in Classcraft or hand in his mailbox the  for XP!!!


LAST GRADE 3 and 4 SECRET CHALLENGE QUESTION
Name 5 types of art (eg impressionism) Also modernism, Abstract, Realism, Surealism, and many others such as Neo-dada and Minimalism.



AND OUR WEEKLY
SENTENCE STRETCHLETICS 
WINNERS ARE . . . 


(NO WINNERS DUE TO SNOW DAYS)

Our Class sampled works by the likes of  Louise Boureois who designed the spider outside the National Gallery, Van Gogh, Monet, Benjamin West. 


Perspective, primary and secondary colours, the Renaissance, shades and backgrounds, forms and shapes were discussed.




THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK
March 7, 2016 (check for updates!)


MONDAY       Library books due tomorrow.

CONTINUE COLLECTING - $ made from chores (dishes, garbage...) will be collected for charity 

Words sheet #17 

Grade 3 Religion: "Special Events" sheet

Math Yellow Group:  Worksheet  (due Friday)

Math Blue Group Worksheet  (due Friday)

Grade 4 Science: Review Pulleys in Action . W visited a website and this week on individual chromebooks students will research questions about each life example of pulleys.

TUESDAY     
Words Pretest in booklet (a parent reads the current week's words for their child to spell. The child marks each word with a check mark or X using the word list.

Grade 3 Science: Review  Increasing Stability and Increasing Strength . We built straw structures with our Guest Teacher (in groups of 3 or 4) to reinforce ideas of using supports within supporting legs (especially triangles)


WEDNESDAY       DANCE-A-THON       
Words to Fix mistakes from yesterday's home pretest. Write each misspelled word correctly, adding a trick to remember how to avoid the mistake (eg draw the two 'l's in really into a really long giraffe neck and head).

Grade 4 Science: Review Pulley Information

MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP  - discuss at home.

THURSDAY                Grade 4: Practice recorder each night (bring it in each day) Testing Thursday as needed

Words to Study mistakes from home pretest for tomorrow's test.

Sentence Stretchletics  (see instructions on inside cover of Words duotang) Most students are now writing a sentence in pencil (with three circled words for the current Words list), then stretching it with a blue pen or pencil. I am expecting 4-5 changes in blue. A change could be an added adjective such as "sticky", "adorable", or "jealous". It could be a phrase that replaces such as this adverbial phrase replacing the word "later": "when all eyes had closed and the busy sounds of mice had begun." However, several students still need to do one of the expectations.

Grade 3 Science: Review Choosing The Right Material . We took a walk around school (with grade 4s) identifying materials used to achieve specific property (rubber chair feet). Look for examples in your home!



FRIDAY NO HOMEWORK  HAPPY (AND SAFE) MARCH BREAK!

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