Tuesday 27 October 2015

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

Good afternoon,
Today we will be baking together. Last night I baked one of the pumpkins that we had worked with during throughout the day. We will use the meat from the pumpkin in our muffins. The recipe is very simple and I have included it below. This recipe works with almost any fruit, just omit/change the spices accordingly.


  • 2 cups pumpkin puree or mashed pumpkin
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
spices:
  • 2 pinches ground cloves
  • 2 pinches ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • or more to taste.
Mix first 4 ingredients well, add dry ingredients. Fill muffin tins lined with wrappers 2/3 full or with ~1/4 c batter. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.




Thursday 22 October 2015

reminders

There's an important note for parents in the front pocket of agendas today.
There's no school tomorrow.
Field trip money in due November 2nd.
English home reading books should be coming back and forth to school daily, unless your child didn't have a chance to read them.

Have a great long weekend!

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Party Committee

The Halloween Party Committee has met (student numbers 3, 7, 8 and 11.)
They have planned some exciting activities, decorations and snacks for our celebration. Our party will take place after last recess at 2:45 on October 30th. Snack reminders went home today for those students who are responsible for bringing snacks. More information regarding costumes and the parade will be posted closer to the date.

The Party Committee chose to survey the class for their input on some of the snacks. They made a graph to represent the information they collected and then looked at the data. They were able to make their decision based on their survey results.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

French Halloween Vocabulary

These are the vocabulary words we're working on this month. Feel free to practice them at home with your child.


We're working on fine motor skills

You can help your child further develop his or her fine motor skills with tracing and cutting activities at home. We're bringing home what we made today while working on these skills.





Tuesday 6 October 2015

Videos

Please check out our video page, I've posted a song version of the "five little pumpkins" poem we've been working on. There's also the favourite "c'est l'halloween" song and a movement break song "la danse d'Igor".
I will post songs to this page as we learn them.

Also watch for our Halloween vocabulary that will be posted this week to the main page.

Friday 2 October 2015

September and October poems

We have been learning and practicing these poems.
  

email

I sent an email this afternoon and have hopefully updated all email address changes. Please let me know if you did NOT receive an email today by emailing me with your child's name as the subject.