October 2016 - Notre Dame School

Bienvenue and Welcome
Notre Dame School
French and Library
OCTOBER 2016
LIBRARY
All grades may borrow books at least once a week. The regular borrowing day for Kindergarten
to grade 4 is Thursday. Grades 5 to 7 may borrow at any lunch recess from Tuesday to
Thursday. Kindergarten and grade one classes may borrow one book at a time. Classes from
grade 2 to 7 may borrow up to two books at any one time.
Kindergarten - A variety of stories will be read to broaden students interests. This will include
bible stories, French stories and books about the fall season. Activities will include looking for a
book to borrow, related colouring sheets and working with puzzles.
Grades 1 and 2 - These classes will review book parts and alphabetical order.
Grade 3 - The students will review how fiction books are arranged.
Grade 4 - This class will be introduced to the Dewey Decimal system of classification.
FRENCH
Kindergarten will explore the French language through songs, rhymes, games and gestures.
We are practicing our class entry song “Bonjour”. A new song “Tourne Mon Moulin” will be
taught with actions. The coulours “jaune” and “rouge” have been introduced. We will continue
to practice identifying them and work on learning “bleu” and “vert” as well as counting to four.
Grade one will be working on learning simple greetings, asking and answering about names,
asking how someone is feeling, the date and the weather, singing O Canada. They will begin
the AIM Program using the story of “La Poule Maboule”. We will be learning new vocabulary
with actions and a song. This includes the “Bonjour song” and vocabulary related to the story.
Grade 2 will review simple greetings, asking and answering about names, asking how someone
is feeling, the date and the weather, and singing O Canada. The class will also review the
“Bonjour song” and vocabulary related to the story of “La Poule Maboule”. This month the
grade 2 class will be introduced to the Hail Mary prayer.
Grades 3 - 7 will continue to review simple greetings, asking and answering about names,
asking how someone is feeling, the date, time and the weather, singing O Canada and the Hail
Mary Prayer.
Grade 3 will continue to practice their new song “La Classe Commence” and the new
vocabulary related to the story “Les Trois Petits Cochons” from the Aim program.
Grade 4 will continue to review the song “La Classe Commence” and the vocabulary related to
the story “Les Trois Petits Cochons” from the Aim program.
Grade 5 will continue to review the song “La Classe Commence” and the new vocabulary
related to the story “Le Garçon Qui Joue Des Tours” from the Aim program.
Grade 6 & 7 will continue to review the song “La Classe Commence” and the vocabulary related
to the story “Le Garçon Qui Joue Des Tours” from the Aim program.
Counting aloud will be practiced in grades 1 - 7 while using the calendar.
Would you like to practice counting to 30? Check out http://www.purposegames.com/game/french-numbers-1-30-quiz.