Happy Spring Break!! Woohoo! (If you're even reading this and aren't already off sipping a cool beverage, celebrating the weekend and the beginning of longer days and summer-like weather!) But if you ARE reading this, we did some cool stuff this week! There was a lot of art involved. And even some forks. Madame was impressed with all of our variations on an idea! We read a fun book about mixing paint colours and then decided we should try it, ourselves! We put dots of different colours on opposite sides of a piece of paper, then slammed them together. It created super cool butterfly-looking effects. Claire and Fria even took it to the next level later and made theirs into butterfly puppets using toilet paper rolls. But sadly, Madame wasn't there to take a picture of the moment. And in the world of performative arts, we got to watch the older kids perform their Lunchbox Theatre production of "Aladdin". We really enjoyed the show and some of us are super excited about the idea of doing Lunchbox Theatre when the opportunity comes available for us later in the Spring. We've also started learning to play chess! Madame has a game called "Story Time Chess" that associates each game piece's unique moves with a fun story to help us remember the rules. So far, we've only had time to learn about "King Shaky", who LOVES to eat and has such a big belly that he's only able to take one...step...at...a...time. A pizza blows out the window onto the checkered lawn and he goes around picking up each piece one...step...at...a...time in every direction. We are eager to continue learning about all of the other characters after Spring Break. We had lots of fun making discoveries again this week on our forest walk, and even found an amazing nest! Sadly, we had to say "au revoir" to Marilou this week, our French monitor. We will really miss all the fun activities that we did with her! A big "merci" to Nana Kesler, who spoiled us once again with beautiful Easter treats!!! Extra photos...
Happy to report that we all survived fort-building, pajama day! Madame even let us eat in our forts! But we actually managed to do some productive schoolwork, too! #Winning! While in our pajamas, we were asked last-minute to do our land acknowledgment again for an assembly with a visiting musician. So we got up in front of everyone, slippers, robes and all, and performed once again. We were awesome, of course! The concert was great, too, with a singer/artist named Ginalina who taught us some fun lyrics and actions in French, English AND Mandarin! But that wasn't the only assembly this week. The BC Lions also came to visit and talked to us all about how to conserve energy. Back in class, we enjoyed learning about an artist named Ted Harrison, a Canadian who lived in the Yukon, close to the North Pole. He loved to paint his surroundings in a style that used warm and cool colours beside each other. He is also known for his use of lines in his art. Madame had us do a directed draw to create a Ted Harrison landscape and then we practiced using a combination of warm and cool colours. Throughout this process, we also learned a bit about the landscapes in the Yukon and the Arctic, some of the animals that live there, and a brief history of the Inukshuk. Teddy asked, "Madame, can we make our own Inukshuks?" And Madame shrugged and said, "Why not?!" So we went outside to the gravel lot and had a lot of fun coming up with our own little designs. We discovered that it can be quite difficult to balance rocks in just the right way! We tried out a new forest walk this week. This one was much more wild, with all kinds of unkept branches that were perfect for fort-building. There were also lots of other fun bird houses and things to discover! Extra photos...
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