Winter fun at the park

It's carnival time at St-Mary's and the kids are going to the park today to do some sliding. Here are some pictures...

Mme Marie-Josée is helping Sabrina in a sleigh 

Mathieu is ready to slide 

Sabrina with two of her very best friends

Mathieu going up with his class and teacher, miss Helen

In the I'll believe it when I see it category:

Winter Storm Warning

Issued at 4:35 AM EST Wednesday 29 February 2012

Summary

A total of 15 to 20 centimetres and blowing snow reducing the visibilities to nearly zero locally are expected over these areas beginning late this evening.

Details

A Colorado low pressure system will slide south of the province Thursday. The snow associated with it will reach Extreme Southern Quebec late this evening and will persist Thursday. Significant amounts of snow are expected over the upper St. Lawrence areas. Moreover, the strong northeasterly winds associated with this system will strongly reduce visibilities in blowing snow over these areas tonight and Thursday. Please refer to regional public forecasts for details pertaining to each region.

I love snow storms (as long as I don't really need to go somewhere). I find we haven't been blessed with many in the past few years...

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Wed, Feb 29, 2012, 5:00 EST

	Wednesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Wednesday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Wednesday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Wednesday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Thursday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM
	Mainly sunny	Variable cloudiness	Scattered flurries	Snow	Snow
Temp.	-11°C	-4°C	-5°C	-5°C	-4°C
Feels Like	-16	-10	-12	-13	-11
Wind	E 15km/h	NE 25km/h	NE 25km/h	E 25km/h	E 30km/h
Relative Humidity	78%	73%	68%	74%	80%
P.O.P.	10%	20%	40%	90%	90%
Snow	-	-	close to 1 cm	close to 5 cm	close to 5 cm

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Winter fun

It's carnival at Mathieu and Sabrina's school. I kinda forgot to bring Mathieu all dressed at school so I kinda felt guilty because the poor guy had to hurry up and put his snow pants on while the class was waiting for the other kids.

I guess I missed this one.

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Tues, Feb 28, 2012, 5:00 EST

	Tuesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Tuesday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Tuesday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Tuesday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Wednesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM
	Cloudy periods	Cloudy periods	Cloudy periods	Variable cloudiness	Cloudy periods
Temp.	-8°C	-3°C	-8°C	-12°C	-10°C
Feels Like	-15	-8	-13	-	-14
Wind	W 20km/h	W 15km/h	W 15km/h	SW 5km/h	NE 15km/h
Relative Humidity	85%	73%	79%	72%	85%
P.O.P.	20%	20%	10%	20%	20%

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Mathieu: "Of course I can't invent the word car 'cause it already exists."; Dictée PGL

Writing
Mathieu asked me to draw this morning. He wasn't hungry. While I was preparing Sabrina's lunch he told me to come and see what he had drawn.

He figured it out by himself. I was impressed, and I told him his mom was going to be impressed too. So he ran upstairs to show it to her:

"You invented the word car by your yourself?"
Mathieu: "Of course I can't invent the word car 'cause it already exists."

Next he drew a pictogram...

Mathieu is a late bloomer when it comes to drawing so I'm proud of every picture he does. Sabrina was very prolific but has slowed down in the past year. Mathieu had to continue with a few more words and some more pictograms.

I know he had help for hat, but I think he was just asked to write cat, which he did.

It has begun.

Dictée PGL 2012
It's official, Sabrina is third place at her dictée PGL. Her friends Kiara and Evelyne are taking 1st and 2nd place. Sabrina was sharing her third place with three boys: Ben, Thomas and Charles. The four had a spelling contest to determine who was the real third place winner. While the boys used psychological warfare against my daughter to make her lose ("you'll never win") she was able to defeat all of them, the last word spelled was "trampoline". So the final winners were, in the right order: Kiara, Evenlyne, Sabrina, Charles, Thomas and Ben. Unfortunately, only the first three won a ribbon, and a gift certificate to a book store. Congratulations, Sabrina!

Ancestry
Here's a great video from my family, on my father's side.

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Mon, Feb 27, 2012, 5:00 EST

	Monday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Monday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Monday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Monday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Tuesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM
	Cloudy with sunny breaks	Light snow	Light snow	Scattered flurries	Variable cloudiness
Temp.	-10°C	0°C	-2°C	-7°C	-7°C
Feels Like	-15	-4	-	-	-12
Wind	NE 15km/h	E 15km/h	NW 10km/h	NW 10km/h	NW 15km/h
Relative Humidity	72%	86%	80%	79%	67%
P.O.P.	30%	80%	80%	80%	30%
Snow	-	1-3 cm	1-3 cm	close to 1 cm	-

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