Class work:
Math
English – 3 Diamante poems with choice of figurative language due Friday
Reading – Independent Novel Study (English) due Tuesday
Writing – Rough drafts of Fairy Tales due Monday
Socials – Mesopotamia projects due Tuesday, November 7th
Photo retakes are tomorrow! If you require photo retakes, please bring back your original proof for the photographer.
Class work:
Dictee
Math
English – 3 Tanka poems with Allusion due Friday
Reading – Independent Novel Study (English) due Tuesday
Writing – Rough drafts of Fairy Tales due Monday
Socials – Mesopotamia projects due Tuesday, November 7th
Art – Please look into different self-portrait styles and decide A) How you want to do your self portrait and B) which medium you would like to use
Mystery Adventure (No children were harmed in the making of this learning) –
Points of Interest:
Wear pants tomorrow! We’re going on a adventure!
Class work:
Dictee
Math
English – 3 Tanka poems with Allusion due Friday
Reading – Independent Novel Study (English) due Tuesday, October 31st
Writing – Rough drafts of Fairy Tales due Monday, October 30th
Socials – Mesopotamia projects due Tuesday, November 7th
Points of Interest:
Bulletjournal.com
Found some Dot cahiers for interested and worthy candidates! Very exciting. You know who you are!
Class work:
Math
English – 3 Tanka poems with Allusion due Friday
Reading – Independent Novel Study (English) due Tuesday, October 31st
Writing – Rough drafts of Fairy Tales due Monday, October 30th
Socials – Mesopotamia projects due Tuesday, November 7th
Points of Interest:
Class work:
Band – Music test tomorrow
Dictee 4
Math
English – 3 Limerick poems with Alliteration due Thursday
Art – Global Issue collage and paragraph justifying collage due Thursday (date changed)
Reading – Independent Novel Study (English) due Tuesday, October 31st
Writing – Rough drafts of Fairy Tales due Monday, October 30th
Points of Interest:
If you knock things off Madame Potyka’s desk, you MAY find that some important papers have fallen into the recycling bin. If they fall into the bin on Recycling Day, Madame Potyka will PROBABLY be found spending her after school time digging through 3 ginormous, full bins of recycling. If you dig through the bins looking for something, it will LIKELY be in the last bin. 😉
Class work:
Band – Music test tomorrow
Dictee 4
Math (Technical difficulties resulted in Pretest delay)
English – 3 Limerick poems with Alliteration due Thursday
Art – Global Issue collage and paragraph justifying collage due Thursday (date changed)
Reading – Independent Novel Study (English) due Tuesday, October 31st
Writing – Rough drafts of Fairy Tales due Monday, October 30th
Points of Interest:
With the help of Division 4 we finally managed to put together the Primary art project from September. A reminder that it takes all kinds of people to make this wonderful community we have at Sperling.
By John Bowman, CBC News Posted: Feb 04, 2016 8:46 AM ET Last Updated: Feb 04, 2016 12:39 PM ET
If you happen to be writing in French about tasting oysters and onions on a weekend in August, things are about to change. Starting in September, schools in France will teach new spellings of some words in a bid to simplify the written language.
Under the spelling reforms, the circumflex over i and u (or î and û) in many words will be removed. This affects words such as “goûter” (to taste), “huître” (oyster), and “août” (August).
As well, the word “oignon” (onion) will lose its pesky and silent “i” to become “ognon.” And the French word “week-end,” borrowed from English, is among several that are dropping the hyphen.
The Académie française, the council on French language that decides such things, approved the changes to about 2,400 words in 1990, but it took 26 years for them to make their way to the school system.
However, despite this advance notice, many francophones aren’t pleased with the news that many words will be losing their beloved little hats. The hashtag #ReformeOrthographe was a worldwide Twitter trend on Thursday morning.
Some people added extra, unneeded circumflexes to compensate for the loss.
Some mocked the changes by adopting even more drastic “simplifications” to written French.
This tweet and its hashtag #JeSuisCirconflexe call back to the #JeSuisCharlie Twitter trend that followed the Paris shootings last year at Charlie Hebdo.
It was among many tweets to use the phrase “nivellement par le bas,” which loosely translates to “dumbing down.”
The deputy mayor of Nice, Christain Estrosi, used the hashtag and called the changes “absurd.”
Refusons la réforme absurde de l’orthographe et le nivellement vers le bas ! #Jesuiscirconflexe#ReformeOrthographe
It’s not every î and û that will disappear, though. They will still appear in certain obscure verb conjugations, the kind of words that will give French immersion students flashbacks (le passé simple, l’imparfait du subjonctif, le plus-que-parfait du subjonctif).
The circumflex will also be kept on i and u in cases where removing it would cause confusion. For example, “sur” means “upon,” while “sûr” means “certain.” “Un jeune” means “a young person,” but “un jeûne” is “a fast.”
The Canadian equivalent of the Académie, l’Office québécois de la langue française, already recognizes the spelling reforms, but notes that neither the new spellings nor the traditional ones should be considered wrong.
