It's "Earth Month"! Ok, technically there's no such thing. "Earth Day" is on April 22, but we are going to be taking the weeks leading up to "Earth Day" to highlight ways that we can make changes to help our world. We will be spotlighting 3 different categories - electricity, emissions and waste. This week's focus was on electricity. We learned first about static electricity. We had a lot of fun creating static electricity by rubbing a balloon on our heads and were especially surprised to see how the electrically-charged balloon stuck to the wall! We also took off our shoes and tried shuffling around the room to create a "zap!" when we touched each other. We also talked about current electricity and all of the different places where we could find it in the classroom. But after learning that electricity comes from power plants that pollute the air, we brainstormed some ways that we could reduce our use of electricity: turning off lights/radio/TV when we're not in a room, unplugging some devices when we're not using them, etc. We were also given a special surprise this week from Bennett and Lucas!... frog eggs! A huge "thank you" to the boys and their family for scooping the eggs out of Alouette Lake for us. We have been so excited to take a look at the jar every day and monitor their growth. They've even begun to sprout tails already! In French class, we have completed another review of all of the digraphs (two letters that together make one sound) that we need to know for Grade 1. Kindergarten students have participated with us so many of them are becoming experts, too! We have been working very hard on creating beautiful art/sound books that we are excited to bind together next week and send home soon. This week's focus was on the sound "é" which can be made in many different ways - et, -ez, -er, -es. We took our learning outdoors for a game of vocabulary tag. Ok, this sounds weird. But when you get to chase your friends around a field wielding a plastic "lézard" or "un éléphant", it's surprisingly amusing! Some of us are becoming so adept at making change with our classroom economy that Madame has decided to let us try being the banker for the day. Tyson did a masterful job as our first banker, even giving advice to some students who would drop a load of change in front of him and ask, "What can I get with this?" It was a stressful job, but he handled it like a pro! Bon travail, Tyson! We look forward to having more student bankers in the upcoming weeks. We made a lot of fun discoveries on our nature walk this week... ...an Easter tree... ...sticks that look like letters... ("it's an 'F'!") ...tiny creatures... We also read a book in class about feeding the birds, so we decided to bring some birdseed along with us. Despite our best attempts, we didn't manage to get any birds to come to us. (We can't understand why our yelling and running wasn't more inviting!) ;-) But in the end, we made a cozy nest for them, complete with birdseed snacks, and we are confident that they filled their bellies after we left the park. Other fun photos from the week... Thank you, Heather R, for some of these photos and for being our volunteer this week!
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