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!

Wednesday 6 April 2016

April 4, 2016

(This week's homework below)


  • I have assigned ILP dates. Please return the sheet signed to let me know that you are aware of the date and that your child will be ready and present (no medical appointment...). 
  • We are still practicing a song-and-dance piece for musical theatre. Please have your child learn the lines. 
  • Don't forget to record your Home Reading - remember that just 105 minutes a week earns your child XP in our Classcraft live video game! 

(Caption)  Layna and Anna display our big descriptive book to show how features such as maps, diagrams, photos, and bold words make texts interesting and easy to use.

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THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK
April 4, 2016  (check for updates!)



MONDAY       Library books due tomorrow.

Words sheet #19 

Math Yellow Group:  Worksheet  (due Friday)

Math Blue Group:  Worksheet  (due Friday)


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  notes


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).

Practice Musical Theatre song  "Be the Hero"

Grade 4:  Study times tables 

 Grade 4 Science: Review Gear Information coming tomorrow


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 4 Science: Review Gear Information 
FRIDAY NO HOMEWORK  

 correctly, adding a trick to remember how to avoid the mistake (eg draw the two 'l's in really into a really long giraffe
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