Grade 2 - final project about a celebration

Students will be making a little interactive booklet on their most important celebration.

A paper copy of the following message will be sent out this week, along with a homework sheet.

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Dear family,

In social studies, students have started looking at different celebrations and traditions in different families in our community.

On the homework sheet named “Les traditions et les célébrations chez moi!,” there are questions that students will have to complete with the help of their family members. Have your child(ren) explain the questions written in French. Should there be any difficulty, please visit my primary social studies blog (link below) for the English translation. Students must complete the work themselves through an interview with a family member who can help answer these questions about family celebrations and traditions. This work to be returned by 24th of May.

Thank you for your support.

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The following is the translation for the homework sheet.

A tradition is a belief, a custom, a habit or a practice that is passed on from parents to their children. The parents show these traditions orally or by doing it.

A celebration is a festival, feast or party that honours a person (e.g. Mothers day), a religious ceremony (e.g. Easter) or a special moment that happens during the course of the year (e.g. Canada Day).

1. What is your family's most important celebration?

2. What is the date of this celebration?

Does its date change every year? Circle yes no

3. For this celebration

We do / We eat / We wear / We meet

4. Why do you celebrate this celebration?

5. Did your grandparents and parents celebrate it (in the past) in the same way as you do? What are some of the similarities and differences?

6. What are some of your family's traditions?

(example / going out for dinner on Saturdays, spend a week every year at a cottage, going camping winter every winter, take a family picture every year, etc.)

Signature of the adult who helped.

Any questions, please send me an agenda note or call ext. 113.

Thank you very much for your support.

Mr. Jung

Grade 3 - performance task

Students have learned about two main indigenous groups that lived in Upper Canada - the Wendat and the Anishinabe.

Now they are working on a mini project in the format of their choice to compare our lives and the lives of one of these indigenous community in Upper Canada.

The project is to be presented mid-May and the marking rubric will be sent home to be signed and returned.

Grade 1 - mapping skills

We have so far worked on natural and built features of our communities.

Students will now be working on basic mapping skills.

Click here for the vocabulary list.

Grade 2 - Comparing our families

We have been working on a Venn diagram to compare our family structure, origin and celebrations.

We are creating our family trees. Some students still have not brought in their photos and the worksheet to record all the names of their family members. Please  make sure that your child(ren) know(s) the full name of each member. Students are also encouraged to bring in the names written in the original language in addition to the names written with the Roman Alphabet.

Through this activity, students will be further compare the structure of their families and start discussing the countries of personal and familial significance.

Some ideas to support at home:
1. Locate the countries of personal and familial significance on the map.
2. Share the family albums and photos, especially those that depict the family traditions and celebrations to discuss how these practices have changed over time.
3. Discuss different family structures and origins of their friends and cousins and how these differences make each family unique.
4. Discuss local celebrations and how diversity in Canada brings many different people together to different celebrations.

Grade 1 - natural and built features in our community.

Students will learn to describe how people make use of natural and built features of, and human services in, the local community to meet their needs, and what might happen if these features/services did not exist.

Some discussion ideas at home.
1. What is made by the nature and by people around you? Why do we need them and how do we use them?
2. What happens if we don't have garbage bins / safety fences / natural parks, etc.?
3. What can we do to make our community a better place? What more natural and built features do we need around us to make it better?

For the vocabulary list of this unit, please click here.

Thank you for your support.

Grade 3 - First quiz handed out

The first quiz has been handed out. (3B and 3/2A) Please review, sign the rubric and return as soon as you can.

Students are looking at the lives of the Wendat people and this coming week, we will be starting with those of the Anishinabe people to eventually be able to compare how they were similar and different.

After, we will start looking at how the Pioneers lived in Upper Canada and how the Indigenous people and the colonists influenced each other.

Some websites to explore
http://www.huron-wendat.qc.ca/
http://www.projects.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/pioneer/home_fr.htm


Thank  you for your support.

Grade 3 - use of Plickers letter sent home for 3B.