We've started learning about LIGHT! We brainstormed all the different places that we could think of where we would find light. There were lots of great student-generated answers, including all kinds of natural and artificial sources of light. And then... Madame let us PLAY with light. We made our classroom as dark as possible and got to walk around with flashlights. We held them up to coloured cellophane to make new colours, bounced the light off mirrors, shone it through crystals to make fun patterns, held it up to pieces of cardstock to make it "look like a moon", and discovered the cool effect of shining it through ball pit balls to make them glow. We even discovered that when we shine a light on our eyes, our pupils change in size! Today we took some time to learn more about 2 different categories of light - natural and artificial. Those were some big words for us to learn, but we caught on quickly! Madame designated the flagpoles as our "lumière artificielle" base and the trees as our "lumière naturelle" post. Then she held up different pictures and we had to run to either the poles or the trees, depending on whether we thought the light source was artificial or natural. We had a lot of fun with this game! And we couldn't resist a roll down the hill on this fine day on our way back to class... In French, we spent a day learning about an important and sneaky letter - "H". It's sneaky because it's usually silent in French. It's more of a "decoration", than anything. When it was "H" day, Madame met us outside after recess and we discussed where we thought the quietest place on the school grounds would be. Then we challenged ourselves to walk to the quietest place while being as quiet as possible, just like an "H". Once there, we silently went on a letter hunt in our books to find as many "H" as we could count! And then... we'd had enough of the silence! It was time for some games!... we played a rousing version of "Go, go, go...stop!", except that we all sang the alphabet while running around, and when we got to "H", we had to freeze in silence. If Madame caught us moving or talking, we were "éliminés"! We also got our exercise in by playing an alphabet version of "duck, duck, goose". "J" is another tricky letter because in French it's pronounced "jee", while "G" is pronounced "jay"... the opposite of English. Gah!! How ever are we going to remember that?! We talked about how the shape of the letter "J" looks like a slide. When we go down a slide, we might say "jeeeeeeeee"! We tried acting this out while holding a "J" to help us remember. In Math, we've been playing BINGO to reinforce our recognition of French numbers. Some of us who already have strong number recognition are doing the tricky version with words that we have to read. We've also been continuing to work on doubles in addition through various games and activities. We've been watching a silly video that Madame made with her kids to highlight the importance of doubles. Any Backstreet Boys fans in the house??? (Madame definitely doesn't sing like one, but we enjoyed making this parody, anyway!) And... what is December without some major crafting mojo? "Merci" to Mallorie's dad, Damien, for his contributions to the French poem on our advent calendar! "Santa's beard is naked! Usually, it's very hairy! Every day, add a piece of cotton and once it's all filled, it will be the day of his arrival!" or... the original English version before translation: "Santa's beard is very bare. On his chin there is no hair. So each day add a puff of white. When it's full, he will come that night!" And finally, la forêt... somehow it became a major group challenge to move this log. Madame couldn't handle watching the struggle anymore and she got in there, too. Not gonna lie... it was h-e-a-v-y. We needed all hands on deck! This is "a vending machine". "We have to charge it!" Sometimes we get lucky and find abandoned "treasures" in the forest! And some extra photos, just because they're cute...
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