Orange Shirt Day

 

After reading The Orange Shirt Story, each student chose a colour, a symbol and an image to represent the text.

Later on in the year students will participate in a more in-depth exploration of residential schools.

Speechtastic!

 This year in English Language Arts, students will participate in Speechtastic, where, by preparing different short speeches, they will improve their speaking skills, develop their listening skills and use their creativity!

Their first speech of the year is an Impromptu Speech, a speech given with little preparation. Each student will give Mme McKenzie three possible topics. She will randomly choose one and the student will have to present their speech on the spot. What is most important is to speak clearly and calmly, without long pauses, umms or misused 'likes'.

Presentations will take place 
Monday, October 5th.

Terry Fox Walk!

 It was a beautiful morning to walk around the community in support of the Terry Fox Foundation.

Thank you to everyone who donated to the Terry Fox Foundation through SchoolCashOnline.

Terry Fox!

 École Ness will be participating in its annual Terry Fox Run this week. This year, students and teachers will be walking a 2 km loop in our community to celebrate Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope. At École Ness, we believe that this is an excellent way to foster a sense of belonging and unity by participating as a school toward a great cause: cancer research. 

In addition to walking in our community, we will be doing Toonies for Terry this year. Should your family choose to make a donation of 2 dollars, you can do so at https://sjsd.schoolcashonline.com This will be the maximum donation that can be accepted on our online system, so a tax receipt cannot be issued. Should you wish to make a larger donation, you are encouraged to do so at www.terryfox.org. Due to Covid-19 and keeping everyone safe at school, we will not be collecting physical money this year. 

In order to ensure student safety, we will be spreading out our Terry Fox Run over the course of three days. This will allow us to have students walk with their respective cohorts. Each cohort will walk our 2 km loop at a designated time throughout the day. 

Tuesday, September 29th: Grade 6!  Students are encouraged to wear school colors or Ness clothing to show their school spirit throughout our community.

This Week in 209

 Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Mathématiques: working with multiples, learning about factors, discussing mental math strategies to double a number.

Francais: daily reading, working with verbs, reading about and discussing Terry Fox.

English Language Arts: daily reading, critical thinking, impromptu speeches, discussing growth mindset.

Sciences de la nature: starting design process project.

Sciences Humaines: exploring personal identity, discussing Canadian identity

P.O.O.F!

 Every other Friday, students will have the chance to reflect on the past week by completing a POOF (Positive Observations on Friday) page.

We shared our observations in class, and now students have been asked to share their page with someone at home.

What a great way to start the weekend!

Happy Friday!

Scholastics!

This year our class will be participating in the Scholastic Reading Club program. Reading every day is the best for students to become independent readers.

NEW this year: your order will now ship to your home and you can order online whenever you want at scholastic.ca/clubshop.

When you checkout, please enter my Class Code: RC216987. When you use my class code, our class earns 20% of the value of the order in rewards and you get Free Shipping on your order of $35 or more. 

Here's to a great year of reading!