Halloween Evening ACFA

ACFA

Soirée d’Halloween

Saturday/samedi

October 30

17h30 à 20h

Members: $5

Non-members: $8

Pizza slice $2

-Dress-up!

-music

-games

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Halloween Treats

Here are some great tips from

Jennifer Sundberg, RD

Population and Public Health Dietitian

Nutrition Services

Healthy Treats on Halloween

Halloween is fun and creative. Children get excited about dressing up as their favourite characters and look forward to wandering the streets for treats and candy! Read on for ideas to keep this spooky holiday healthy and fun.

Before Trick-or-Treating

Be prepared before your children go out to collect their candy. Here are some helpful tips to better manage this special night:

Have a healthy supper or snack. Well fed children are less tempted to dig into their bag of goodies before they get home, and less likely to overeat.

Limit the amount of treats your children collect by limiting the number of houses they visit -- stay on your own street. Or, limit the amount of time spent Trick-or-Treating.

For safety, instruct your children not to eat candy while they are out.

After Trick-or-Treating

Work out a plan with your children to help them enjoy their candy and treats in a healthy way.

Decide if you will set limits or if you will allow your children to choose how much candy to eat. Use your best judgment based on their personality and eating habits.

Encourage your children to be mindful about their treat selections. For example, suggest they choose bite-sized versions instead of large or oversized candy bars; or pick one large or two small pieces. If your children have trouble with this, help them by separating the candy into different bags.

Know how much candy was collected and store it out of sight. Handy candy, stored in children rooms, might be too tempting.

Ration the candy over several days/weeks. Candy should not get in the way of healthy eating. Substitute it for dessert or have it along with a healthy snack.

Make the last treat of the day a new brightly coloured toothbrush and flavoured dental floss. Remind your children to brush their teeth after eating sweet or sticky treats.

Buy back candy from your children for money or a special treat, like a visit to the zoo or a trip to their favourite park.

Be a role model and eat candy in moderation yourself. Children learn by example.

Halloween Safety

Children need to know you must check their loot for safety. When they get home, inspect the treats together.

Keep only treats that are unopened and in their original wrapping. Preferably, tell children not to accept anything that is not commercially wrapped.

Inspect all candy and homemade goods for signs of tampering. For example, pinholes in wrappers, torn wrappers, or loose packaging.

Wash fruits thoroughly. Look for holes, or indications that they have been cut open.

Remove any choking hazards for young children like gum, peanuts, hard candies, or small toys.

Have a Halloween party at home to reduce safety concerns. Offer nutritious treats like fruits and mini pizzas with monster faces. Play fun active games like pumpkin bowling, bobbing apples, or pin the wart on the witch. Search the internet for other great ideas.

Developed by Registered Dietitians/Nutritionists Nutrition Services

Allergy Alert! Food allergy safety is as important on Halloween as any other time. If your children are allergic to certain foods, always read the ingredient lists on wrappers and avoid treats of unknown source.

Healthy Halloween at your House

If you are looking for healthier alternatives this Halloween, here are some suggestions for tasty treats:

Small bags of pretzels, flavoured rice cakes or popcorn

Single-serving boxes of lower sugar cereal

Pre-packaged cheese sticks

Small boxes of raisins or 100% fruit leathers

Unsweetened fruit cups or applesauce cups

Higher fibre granola bars

Bottles of water or small 100% juice boxes

Other options may include:

Homemade treats. If you decide to make your own, wrap them up well and add your name and phone number to a tag on the treat. If other parents in the neighbourhood know you, they may feel the treat is safer.

If you would prefer your treats to be natural or vegan, check your local natural food store. Keep in mind these products will likely cost more.

Remember, when passing out treats, give just a few rather than a big handful.

Cool Non-food Treats

To make your house a good stop on the trick-or-treating circuit, you don’t have to limit yourself to sugary sweets. Try some of these fun non-food ideas:

Passes for local recreational centres or pools

Stickers or temporary tattoos

Finger puppets, rubber spiders

Plastic rings or beads

Coloured chalk or individually wrapped clay

Bubbles, wands, balloons, or noisemakers

Crayons, pencils, fun-shaped erasers, and pencil toppers

Wishing pennies. Wrap a penny in colourful paper and attach a note with a short message about making a wish or saving money.

Leftover Candy – What to Do

Here are some simple ideas to prevent sweet treats from going to waste.

Freeze some and chop it up to use as topping on ice cream on special occasions.

Get the family together to make a gingerbread house and decorate it with leftover candy.

Mix it into recipes to make cakes, pies, or other treats. Check the library or the internet for cookbooks and recipe ideas.

Remember…

You and your children can enjoy a healthy Halloween! Continue healthy eating and active living habits during the Halloween season.

December 3 Spelling

1. qui

2. quand

3. qu'est-ce que

4. est-ce que

5. pourquoi

*6. Noël

**7. le père Noël

**note: p miniscule

1. La fille chante.

2. Deux filles chantent.

3. Le garçon saute.

4. Trois garçons sautent.

5. Qu'est-ce que c'est?

November 26 Spelling

1. la terre

2. glisse

3. fait

4. découpe

5. amuse

6. patine

7. saute

8. joue

9. dit

10. bien

*11. la communauté

*12. l'aimant

1. Le garçon joue.

2. Les garçons jouent.

November 19 Spelling

1. mange

2. parle

3. porte

4. prépare

5. regarde

6. touche

7. tourne

8. trouve

9. aime

10. demande

*11. Red Deer

1. Le garçon parle.

November 5 Review Spelling

un ami

2. le chien

3. deux

4. une école

5. le chat

6. trois

7. marche

8. cherche

9. quatre

10. chante

11. couche

12. cinq

13. c’est

14. la bouche

15. six

16. j’ai

17. sept

18. mercredi

19. chez

20. une auto

21. vendredi

22. la famille

23. une maison

24. avec

25. la fille

26. un manteau

27. dans

28. une soeur

29. une rue

30. sur

31. le garçon

32. la ville

33. le chapeau

34. un frère

35. une minute

36. le chemin

37. une tante

38. le matin

39. la chemise

40. un oncle

1. Mon ami chante.

2. Ma famille mange.

3. La fille écoute.

4. Mon ami joue.

5. Mon ami saute.

November News 2010

NEWSLETTER NO.3

2 ième année

Classe de Madame Villeneuve

November 2010

Bonjour parents:

LANGUAGE ARTS

Some of the activities we did in October were to write descriptive paragraphs about autumn, pumpkins and witches, prepare a Halloween game and learn about adjectives, nouns and verbs.

In reading, the children will continue to learn about the keys to reading. Another key to reading is to ask yourself “Does it make sense?”

In writing, the children should always be correctly spelling list words

and words that are displayed in the classroom. They are encouraged to sound out other words in their writing. The students are also using their personal dictionaries to help them spell words. They have learned that words are in alphabetical order in a dictionary. We have also learned that proper names like towns, cities, and names all start with capital letters. Please point out to your child capital letters on proper names when you are reading to them or on road signs.

In speaking, the children should always be speaking French to Madame and making an excellent effort to speak French to their classmates.

In listening, the children should be listening for details and to learn new vocabulary. Learn a new word every day.

Throughout November, the themes will be “Les lieux et les communautés” (Looking at Places and Communities) and “La paix” (Peace).

There will be a review spelling test on Friday, November 5 of 40 words and five sentences (a list is attached).

READ-AT-HOME PROGRAM

Please have your child bring in their record book for “Les lecteurs reptiliens” on Monday, November 1 as I would like to see how their reading is progressing.

MATH

Madame Hill writes:

We have been working hard on learning about patterns and now we are moving on into our unit on number sense. We are going to work on the following outcomes for most of October and November.

· Counting by 2, 5, 10 from 0 to 100

· Knowing if a number is odd or even

· Putting numbers in increasing or decreasing order

· Using a variety of ways to represent numbers (tallies, pictures, words, coins and base ten blocks)

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will focus on learning about geography and community with respect to the three Canadian communities we are studying (Iqaluit, Meteghan and Saskatoon).

SCIENCE

We have completed our unit on “Les bestioles dans la cour” (Backyard Bugs) and will be beginning our study of “Le magnétisme”. Watch for your child to come home and ask you where you can find magnets in your home (magnets can be found in things with motors, telephones, televisions.)

NAMES

Please make sure your child’s name is on all outdoor clothing as well as items such as lunchbags, water bottles and boots. I am encouraging all the children to have a waterbottle with them on a daily basis. It is more convenient for the children to have a water bottle available to them throughout the day in the classroom, as opposed to having to leave the classroom for a drink. It is one of the healthy habits we are working on.

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS

One of the Christmas projects we are making will be a surprise. For this project each child will need to bring a large plastic bowl (which we will return intact) and an old paint shirt (we will be doing paper maché). A bowl of between 20 cm and 30 cm in diameter is the best size. Please bring these items before Monday, November 15.

REPORT CARDS AND CONFERENCES

Report cards will be sent out Nov. 26. Conferences will be scheduled for everyone for either the evening of Dec. 2 or the morning of Dec. 3. I look

forward to meeting with you once again.

REMEMBRANCE DAY ASSEMBLY

Children who have Beaver or Brownie uniforms have been asked to wear their uniforms to the Remembrance Day Assembly which will take place on Wednesday, November 10 at 10:50. Students will be given a poppy to wear to the assembly. We are accepting donations for the Legion poppy fund on this day.

THE SEVEN HABITS OF STEVEN COVEY

Check out www.TheLeaderInMe.org.

MERCI

A big thank you to parents who volunteered to send goodies for Halloween, be classroom helpers, help in the swim changeroom, create materials at home and all the moms, dads, brothers and sisters who have been helping to encourage the children to be responsible with their belongings, listened to their children read and helped with homework!!

Note: Please remember to fill in the police verification record check if you plan to help in the school, attend field trips, tie skates etc. this year.

HOMEWORK

Remember to:

Practise for the Review Spelling Test on November 5.

Practise weekly spelling words.

Read daily.

Practise basic facts and counting skills.

Quoi de neuf? Girls Nov. 19 Quoi de neuf? Garçons Nov. 26

Think about what to write in your journal on Monday mornings.

Read the link book.

Prepare what to say for “Quoi de neuf”.

Thank you,

Madame Villeneuve

http://madamevilleneuve.blogspot.com/

Silent Letters and S

Dear Parents,

Many of the following words are found in your child’s home reading books. Please note that most of the time we do not pronounce the letters t/p/s/d when they are at the end of words.

e.g.

chaud

le bois

avait

vert

son habitat

un camp

dent

gris

le rat

le loup

quand

l’éléphant

le but

l’art

le lait

nous

dans

trop

août

fort

un mot

un bras

jamais

du jus

était

le printemps

avant

trois

vous

We pronounce the “s” only when it is followed by a word that starts with vowel.

e.g.

vous avez

les amis

ils ont

elles ont

des enfants

les utiles

nous avons