It was a hard week for us with the passing of our beloved Turbo, the only chick that managed to hatch. He had been such a good snuggler and had captured all of our hearts. Some of us had some big emotions to process, but we made some special drawings in his memory and had a little funeral. We felt like we needed to sing something, but weren't quite sure what, so we ended up with a soulful version of "O Canada". We were all very respectful of this process and of each other's feelings. But the good news is that we now have more chicks! Farmer Crystal had been wanting some specific breeds of chickens and managed to order them from New York this week, so we got to enjoy them fresh off the airplane. We learned that even chicks have to go through customs! They will hang out with us for the next week or so, and then head home with Farmer Crystal. We are slowly getting used to their New Yorker accents. Thankfully none of them have insisted on wearing their stilettos. Meet the cast of characters... In other news, Madame had a "fan girl" moment this week as Will Stroet, one of her favourite French-speaking kids' musicians, came to perform at our school! He was very engaging and we all had a great time singing and dancing along to his music! We have spent some time in previous weeks learning about nouns and adjectives and this week, it was time.... time for the beginning of the rest of our French Immersion lives... the introduction to VERBS. For possibly the next 10 to 12 years, we will wrestle with the complexities of French verb conjugations and all their irregularities so we might as well start now! (Madame actually secretly loves this stuff because she is a self-professed grammar nerd.) We began learning how to conjugate one of THE most common irregular verbs - "être" (to be). We actually use this verb all the time in our journal-writing so it was high time that we learned to write it correctly. We will continue to practice these conjugations in sentences throughout the coming weeks, and will slowly add more to them. We also came to the realization that we use verbs aaaaall the time in our daily show-and-tell when Madame interviews us about what we DO with our special object? "Do you EAT it? Do you PLAY with it? Do you THROW it? Do you SLEEP with it?..." We were already experts at identifying verbs without even realizing it! In Science, we are reminded these days every time we look at the bulletin board about the importance of washing our hands. We have been watching our bread experiment over the last several weeks and the slice that was rubbed all over dirty hands is the only one so far that has gotten mouldy. And boy, is it ever getting mouldy!! While we continue to focus on our addition and subtraction skills in Math, we have added in a new focus - MEASUREMENT! We tried measuring tables and chairs with hands, feet, and even ears, but we realized they weren't optimal measurement tools because everybody's hands, feet and ears are different sizes. What about paperclips and unfix cubes?... those would be great tools because each one of them is exactly the same length as the other, meaning my friend and I could come up with exactly the same measurements for an object even if we were measuring separately. We were *just* about to try out some measuring with the paper clips and unifix cubes when Madame decided to be dramatic and toss those worksheets in the recycling. "You know what?!... you guys are sooooo smart that we're going to LEVEL UP and begin measuring with REAL measurement tools." Out came the rulers, metre sticks and measuring tape! We learned about millimetres, centimetres, decimetres and metres and why the different units of measurement would be optimal in different scenarios. ("You wouldn't use a metre stick to measure an ant!" And "you wouldn't use millimetres to measure the length of the slide!") We took our workbooks outside and tried our hand at some of our own measurements and recordings. Extra pics...
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