Attention!! A message from Grade 6 students!

Dear St. Jude's families 

We are two grade six students doing an assignment in which we have to take action to make the world a happier and better place to live in. We ask you to please sign the online petition to support us in banning violent video games for children under the age of 18-years-old. Thank you for your time.

Ban Violent Video Games Petition

From: Ethan & Amron 

Happy Friyay!

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a fun, relaxing and rainy Easter weekend and of course a lot of chocolate!
This short week was very productive, we are back on track all caught up on missed French classes from last week!

In Grade 1:
-We learned about art in French.
-We learned the primary colours and the colours they yield when mixed.
-We learned to read instructions in French and follow them to colour some drawings using the proper colours.

In Grade 2:

-We learned to transform positive sentences into negative ones using "ne+pas" by identifying the verb and placing them before and after it.

-We learned to ask "do you like...?" in French "Est-ce que tu aimes.....?" and we used this to interview some friends in the classroom to find out which food items they like and don't like. 

-We learned to write full sentences to state our findings about our friends using "Il or Elle aime...." or "Il or Elle n'aime pas...".

In Grade 5:

-We continued to practice the tenses: Présent, passé composé and Imparfait.

-We learned to use the comparative and superlative forms to compare species as well as compare members of our own families including ourselves.

-We started working on our French summative: students will be working in pairs to research about a species of their choice and create a powerpoint presentation.

Wish you all a great weekend ahead! 

Rawan

Happy Thursday!

Easter weekend is here already and it's been busy as always at St. Jude's! 

Unfortunately, we missed some French classes this week due to rehearsals and some school events but were able to catch up and complete most of the work I had planned for the week.

In Grade 1:

-We learned about Easter in French (Pâques): we learned the vocabulary and how to follow instructions to colour and decorate Easter eggs.

-We practiced identifying the action words and the nouns in sentences to understand what the instruction is telling us to do.

In Grade 2:

-We learned to express our likes and dislikes about food items "J'aime la salade"/"Je n'aime pas la salade".

-We learned to transform a positive sentence into a negative one.

-We learned to ask for the time and tell the time in French.

In Grade 5:

-We continued to read and learn about biodiversity and practice writing full sentence answers to comprehension questions.

-We practiced "passé composé" and "imparfait".

-We started to learn how to use the superlative and comparative forms to compare species. 

I hope you all have a great long weekend, plenty of quality time with your families and loved ones and some most needed rest! 

Joyeuses Pâques! 

A note from an exhibition group (grade 6)

Donate to people who are homeless 

Hi!!, Our names are Mona, Joana, and Shivam. 

We are doing a project called Exhibition where we choose a topic we are interested in and want to research more about in order to make a positive difference in our world. We chose the topic of homelessness because we do not want anyone to be without their basic needs. Every person has the right to have a home and food to eat and clothing to wear. 

 We are collecting donations so that we can donate them to Angela’s Place, a homeless shelter right here in Mississauga.

You can donate:

• Non perishable food
• Clothing (for all ages such as Pants, shirts, hats ,shoes and more) 
• Toiletries (mouthwash, feminine products, toothpaste, toothbrush, and deodorant)  
• Seasonal clothing
• Baby formula 
• Diapers 
• Baby products 

Reason why we are doing this= Our plan is to help people who are homeless who need food and clothing and any other useful materials. After collecting these materials, we are going to donate all these items to a shelter called “Angela's Place” (45 Glenn Hawthorne Blvd, Mississauga, ON L5R 4J9).

Thank you so much for making the world a better place!

Please bring items to Ms. Jaskolka's class (Room 30) 

Friday again!

Hello everyone!

Time is flying by so quickly, can't believe it's almost Easter! It's been very busy at St. Jude's with all the fun from the spring fundraiser trips, and excitement has started to build up for arts night as the rehearsals begin!

Of course, we still learned a lot in French:

Grade 1:
-We continued to drill spring related vocabulary as well as colours.
-We learned to recognize the gender of the new words and use the correct articles with each (le/la/les).

Grade 2:
-We continued to work on personal pronouns and their proper use.
-We learned to conjugate and use new verbs (action words).
-We learned how to replace names and nouns by personal pronouns in texts and sentences.

Grade 5:
-We continued to work on biodiversity.
-We learned to read new short texts, identify new difficult words and defined them.
-We learned to find the answers to comprehension questions in the text and formulate full sentence answers.

Have a very happy Friday and a great weekend!

Rawan

Friday April 5th, 2019

Hello everyone!

What a week! Spring fundraiser, daily events, teachers pied in the face and student-led conferences have definitely made this the busiest week of the year at St. Jude's! But it was all super fun.

I would like to thank all the parents who made it to the conferences last night and took some time to see me and discuss their children's report cards, and overall progress in French. I was very happy to hear all the positive feedbacks as well as concerns and some nice suggestions to help students be more exposed to the French language.

I know that the amount of time your children are exposed to French during the school day isn't very long, and more exposure definitely does help their understanding and oral pronunciation. For this reason, I have taken some parent's suggestion to find some interesting children- friendly tv shows that students can watch some tie during the weekend in French, and looked up some shows available in french on the Netflix kids. (I know many like to use youtube, but I personally don't prefer to, just because I am not sure how safe it is to navigate it).
We are currently working on Biodiversity in French which is also their UOI. Netflix has a very nice documentary that ties-in very well with biodiversity and is available in French: "Life BBC Earth, season 1". I have suggested to my grade 5s to try to watch one episode in French this weekend if possible (they will need to click on "audio and subtitles" and change the audio to French). This is not a homework or anything required at all for our lessons in class, it's just a suggestion to see something in French that is relevant to our work.

Grade 1:
In Grade 1 this week, we continued to identify items related to spring along with colours and weather.
Students made their own sentences about spring and why they do or do not like it.

Grade 2:
In Grade 2 this week, we described spring activities and students wrote some sentences on their own using a word bank to describe spring activities (using correct verb conjugation).

Grade5:
We started working on our new unit: biodiversity. We introduced the the unit using keywords, defined them and identified the 3 levels of biodiversity we will be learning about.

Attention SJA parents!