See the tree in every acorn.

About Me

Welcome to another school year at St. Francis of Assisi! I am looking forward to teaching and being a part of your child’s Grade 3/4 school year experiences. I have been teaching for about 20 years, mostly with the Ottawa Catholic School Board. My first teaching assignments ranged from an isolated northern Quebec, a Montessori school, and a school for students having very serious needs. My wife Eve and I have two boys. Olivier is 11 and Emile is 13 years old. My motto is "See the tree in every acorn" because students remind me of how that tiny acorn that may get overlooked has the potential to grow into the mighty oak. If we believe in students and nurture that excitement of learning, there's no telling what mighty oaks they may become!

Monday, 1 June 2015

Wow! We are already in June! EQAO warps up this week and so do several units of study.

Our class is starting the last units of study. Our last text unit in Language is narrative writing. We are now focusing on our grammar skills and applying in our writing the words we have learned each week. Having completed the larger Number Sense units in Math, we are now returning to review and assess a couple of smaller units: Motion Geometry, Number Patterns, and we will finish with Probability. The Grade 4s are studying Habitats. Much learning will take place through games, videos, and demonstrations. The Grade 3s are studying Plants, applying their knowledge of soils. They will start off by learning the parts of a plant and their functions. Each student will use this information to make a plant 'shape' book that looks like a flower. Much learning about plants will take place through experiments, videos, and demonstrations.
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