M. Brettle

- Grade 4/5 French 🇫🇷 Immersion Teacher 🍎 @ St Martin de Porres Elementary School 🏫🌳 - OCSB -

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

@mike_scaringi @BornToVegas @FlySwoop Reached out to them privately today as I was affebted by the same issue. Have yet to receive an email from their customer service, they have no phone representatives and I’ve been “in queue” to speak with a representative on Facebook since noon. Unacceptable. 🤡🤡🤡

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Today is Ash Wednesday. As a class we had our liturgy and discussed how we can do our part to assist with our school’s Lenten project. As part of STEAM week, we used our DPA time to build snow sculptures🌨❄️☃️. Great job grade 4&5s! @StMartinOCSB #ocsbSTEAM

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Students had a blast today kicking off STEAM week by making and racing their OYAP propeller cars 🚘! @StMartinOCSB #ocsbSTEAM #ocsbOYAP #ocsbEL #experientialLearning

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Happy 100th day of school! Celebrating today by showing off our elderly side👴🏻👵🏻. we finished off the day hy working on our reading and writing skills in French with a literacy walk in the afternoon. @StMartinOCSB

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Busy week in grade 4/5. We worked on our writing, started our natural disasters and winter olympics projects. We were able to briefly watch our olympics womens hockey team face-off against the Swiss. Perhaps there are some future olympians in this group? @StMartinOCSB 🥇🏒🥅

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Great week back at school! We had fun playing in the ample snow ❄️❄️❄️and seeing our friends again. We also received response letters from our pen pals in France 🇫🇷 @StMartinOCSB

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Happy Halloween from the Grade 4/5 class! 🎃🦇👻 @StMartinOCSB

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Last day of Spirit Week! Amazing costumes in grade 5 today! 🦇💀👻👽🎃 @StMartinOCSB

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Our entry in the 2nd Annual Halloween Door Decorating Contest!

Class Participation✅
Spooky Display✅
Cross Curricular Connections✅

I like our odds! @StMartinOCSB

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

“We’re still at number 1🏆” - Jesse

Thank you to all of the generous members of our parent community who have donated to an amazing cause and to the Terry Fox Foundation. If you would still like to donate there is still one more day! @StMartinOCSB

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

Its been a busy week in Grade 5! The students have been hard at work completing crafts and gaining a better understanding of the human body. Today we recreated hands with working tendons which will be used for our entry in this week’s door decorating competition 🚪@StMartinOCSB

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

So much to be thankful for on this beautiful fall day 🍂🍁. As part of our thanksgiving liturgy we created a gratitude pumpkin together by writing down all the things we are grateful for. @FosterFarms #OCSBgratitude @StMartinOCSB

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

Today we visited the Learning Commons to leverage digital and design 3D printed bookmarks for our pen pals in France. Merci @CampGnome aka Miss Terry for an amazing workshop on @tinkercad ! @StMartinOCSB 📚💻

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

In preparation for our shoebox habitat projects next week, the grade 4s learned about adaptations plants and animals develop in order to thrive in their given habitats. Bravo les amis! 🦅🐝🦧🐫🌵 @StMartinOCSB

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Today we answered one of our Wonderings on the human body: why do we get hiccups? We also worked hard towards finishing our first letters to our pen pals in France! Great job everyone! 📝🇫🇷🤒 @StMartinOCSB

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Happy National Truth and Reconciliation Day. So proud that so many of our friends were their orange to school! This morning we took time to discuss why we were wearing orange and journaled how we felt. Later on we began our investigation of the respiratory system.🪶@StMartinOCSB

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Today we learned about the franco-ontarian flag and what it means to french speakers throughout the province. Students also finished their skeletal system activity. Amazed at the creative yet accurate designs they were able to come up with! Bravo! 💀🦴🍝🇫🇷 @StMartinOCSB

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Bon vendredi! After studying the skeletal system this week we began creating our own models out of pasta! Special thank you to Michael for bringing a skeleton from home to help his friends learn! 💀🍝 @StMartinOCSB

[M. Brettle @M_Brettle]

Today we continued our unit on the human body by learning about the skeletal system. We read a text in french explaining functions and fun facts & afterwards we labelled the major bones in the body together on the Smartboard! Great job everyone!

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Yesterday in grade 5 we began our study of the human body by co-creating a list of wonderings. Some of the students’ questions included: “does our body shut down when we sleep?”, “why do we dream?” & “why do our arms & legs sometimes ‘fall asleep’?” @StMartinOCSB