Hello everyone! 

It's been a busy few weeks in Room 208!

We submitted our results to Tomatosphere and found out that Group D represented the tomato seeds that were sent to space for 5 weeks and Group F was the Control group of seeds. The average germination rate (from all classrooms that participated across Canada) showed were:

 D seeds -  76.3% and F seeds - 78.9%.

Here is a picture of us with our certificates of participation in the Tomatosphere program!

We've been working a lot on our reading and writing in Français since we've come back from winter break. We've been fortunate to have Mme Marcoux working with us in our classroom, too.

We've been using "les 4 fantastiques" in class since the beginning of the year with information texts. Mme Marcoux came in to model "les 4 fantastiques" using the short, fictional story Brutus so we can now use these reading strategies when reading all different types of texts.

When completing each section of "les 4 fantastiques," we use a set of writing prompts (sentence starters) to help us vary our word choice. Trying to use a different sentence starter at the beginning of each sentence: increases of français vocabulary, gives our writing depth and helps us create a unique voice when writing to share information.

Hé Ho! Festival du Voyageur time will soon be here!

Festival du Voyageur will once again be putting together a Family Mosaic to recognize a remarkable Manitoban (such as they did last year with the mosaic of Louis Riel) and our class is going to be a part of it! The above photo was submitted to Festival and will be one of many, many pictures that will make up a large photo tribute of 

Tommy Prince.

You can learn more about Tommy Prince and the Family Mosaic tribute by clicking HERE.