First of all I hope everybody is going to have great holidays and good rest

If you want to practise a little with your child you could revise the French vowels we learnt in class (A, E, I, O and U) both in capital and little letters.

You can find two sheets to help you.

Example of exercises :

-Show them the sheets of paper and ask them to show you the A, E, ect .....

-Show them the A, E, etc ... and ask them to tell you what it's called

Attention : it's very important to do it in French so that they do not mix up the different names of the letters (and more particularly the e and i)

-Make them write the letters by using the two sheets of paper

-As for the number we learnt up until 40 in French

Bonjour,

I am hereby speaking for Madame Maya. She was really moved by your gifts for her and by the gesture. She asked me to thank all of you and she will miss every one of your children.
She wants to express her best wishes to everybody.

Madame Claire

Au Revoir Madame Maya!!!

Dear Parents, 

I just wish to extend a special thanks for all those who contributed to Madame Maya's

Farewell Gift, presented at this morning's assembly. 

  

I have placed the text below of what was said earlier today. 

If you wish to express your own comments to Madame Maya, feel free to place a new post! 

Have a look and Thank You Again!! Merci!

Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs, Chers étudiants,

Je suis ici pour une raison très spéciale. Madame Maya!

Au nom de la classe maternelle, nous voulons vous dire

Bravo pour l’organisation, le décor, les chansons

Tout le temps consacre aux répétitions et

Votre patience agrémentée de votre passion.

Nous tenons à vous présenter ce ci.

Hello Everyone,

You are cordially invited to Anthony’s  birthday

on Saturday, Nov 15th from 12:30 – 2:30 at Kids Fun City:

150 Lesmill Rd., Unit 300

Toronto, M3B 2T5  (Leslie & York Mills)

Tel:  (416) 444-4386

Parents and siblings alike are welcome.  Please note that socks are mandatory.

Please RSVP with Migena at 416-871-6380 or migenapass@rogers.com before Nov 1, 2014.

Anthony loves LEGO so any Lego gift certificates are more than welcome

Thank you,

Migena Passalacquaspider

Christmas Gala costume

Bonjour,

We are looking at a costume for the Christmas gala and since the children are going to sing a song about a snowman this costume seems to be a good match. The final price of this costume (with taxes and delivery) would be around 25 dollars (here is the link if you want to take a look :
http://www.amazon.com/Snowman-Costume-Children-range-years/dp/B000YD9RKW/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&qid=1413918985&sr=8-49&keywords=snowman+costume )
So we wanted to know if you would be ok to pay this price to order the costume for your children. We would need to have it for mid-November. And of course you will be able to keep the costume after the gala.
You can let me know if you would be ok with this option by commenting on this post or by simply telling me at school. We would need all the parents to be ok with it before going through with it but if it's not the case we would fine another solution. When the final decision will be taken I will let you know for sure.
Merci

Madame Claire

PS ; For the cards if you do not want to order some think to bring us the picture back please and I will give it back to your children later on.

End of the week information

Yesterday the children did art : we painted with our fingers and hands in order to create cards you are going to be able to purchase. Here are some explanations :

You have received today a drawing created by your child as part of the Cards By Me fundraising program.  With this program, you are being given the opportunity to order greeting cards and/or calendars with your child's artwork on the cover. 

A set of 12 greeting cards and envelopes is priced at $25.00 and the calendar is $7.50.  Both greeting cards and calendars are offered for $30.00.   

If you are interested in participating in this program, please fill out the form on the back of the drawing.  Return the completed form with the drawing and the money to Madame Claire on Monday October 27.  This is to ensure that the greeting cards are printed on time for the holiday season. 

If you are not interested in this program, please return the drawing to Madame Claire.

We also started to study colours and animals in French. We worked on the vowels O, A, U, I, and we go on learning counting until 30.

A lot of things are planned for next week : 
-Monday is pizza day and pyjama day - please make sure you have already sent the form and 18 dollars for the whole year if your child is participating.
-Wednesday is Halloween and we will give the presents to Madame Maya : don't forget to bring a costume and bring back the permission form and payment if you have not brought it back already please
-Friday is Parents - Teachers meeting

 

Madame Maya!

Hello Parents!

On behalf of the class, we would like to purchase a token of appreciation for all that our wonderful teacher Madame Maya has done for our kids.  We are thinking of purchasing a small bouquet of flowers, chocolate and of course A Shining Star with a message of gratitude, compliments of merci chocolate!

http://www.merci.com/en/give-a-star

We were also thinking about the idea of and possibly creating a   calendar with pictures of the school, her activities and of course with your permission, each student for her memory. Should you wish not to share a picture of your children, no worries, we understand and wish to respect each families privacy.

If you would like to contribute toward this gift, please send your contribution (if possible between $3 to $5) in a sealed envelope addressed to me by 

Monday, October 27, 2014, and I will take care of the rest! 

We plan to present the gift to Madame Maya on October 29, 2014 at 1:00pm just prior to the start of the La Citadelle Halloween Festival. 

Thank you,

Sonya Fontana-JK Class Representative

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□   Yes!  I will make a donation toward the cost of the gift!  (Please send in an envelope to Sonya Fontana's attention)

□   No. It would be a pleasure to help, however, unfortunaetly I will not be able to participate, but do wish Madame Maya all the very best!

Name: _________________________________                    

Sport clothes reminder

Hello,

I wanted to remind you that your child needs to have his/her sport cloth (long sport pants, sweat-shirt and t-shirt) and shoes in his/her bag for the sport class. It is very important so that they do not stay in wet clothes all day long and so that they can be more at ease to do sport. You can put them in their bags on Mondays and they can keep it until Friday so that they have it when needed.

Thank you for your understanding

Madame Claire

Bonjour,

You can find above the lyrics of the Halloween song we started to learn today.

''Vieille sorciere, vieille sorciere
Que fais-tu, que fais-tu ?
Je mange d'la citrouille, je mange d'la citrouille
Cric crac croc, cric crac croc

Vieille sorciere, vieille sorciere
Que fais-tu, que fais-tu ?
Je mange d'la citrouille, je mange d'la citrouille
Cric crac croc, cric crac croc''

Welcome to La Citadelle Academy -JK blog

Dear Junior Kindergarten Parent,

Welcome to La Citadelle Academy Junior Kindergarten classroom website/blog!

This website has been created to help make parents lives a little easier to stay informed on important JK messages, calendars and newsletters throughout the calendar year.

Please ensure to view the site weekly in order to ensure you remain up to date on important updates. The JK Blog will be updated weekly, but perhaps best to view on Sunday, prior to the start of the school week.

I will be one of your class representative for the JK class with Mme Maya/Mme Fabregues for this school year 2014-2015. I will mainly be responsible for providing the class communication. However, we do require additional helpers, so if interested please go to the "Get Involved!!! Be a Class Rep. or Class Helper! page to obtain more information how to participate.

The class representative responsibilities are to serve as the primary interface between the parents and the classroom teachers. I will be keeping you informed by sending out class communications, assisting the teachers with administrative tasks, helping with some class events (holiday concert, class parties, etc.), assist in finding volunteers, and any other special needs, as well as maintaining the Class Contact List.

For privacy reasons, the school is not permitted to provide parents’ personal information to me. For the Class Contact List, please provide as much information as you are comfortable with and if you could kindly return this form by Tuesday, October 14, 2014 to Mme Maya/Mme Fabregues.

Alternatively, you can also send me the information by email. Providing this information is voluntary. I can keep your contact information private if you do not want to share it with the other parents. The Class Contact List will be distributed to all parents in the JK class, so please only include information that you wish to share. If your information changes throughout the year, please notify the school. I would appreciate if you could inform me of the changes as well.

Please note, in effort to maintain privacy and confidentiality, this blog/website has been only made available to view, to parents in the JK Kindergarten Class and Kindergarten staff

Sonya Fontana
sonyafontana@yahoo.ca

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