We had a bit of a strange week with parent conferences wiping out a day and a half and Madame away for one of the remaining days. But we still managed to squeeze in some valuable learning time. We have been working on preparing a play to perform for all of our mamans et papas some time in the New Year. We don't have a set date yet because Madame wants to make sure that we're completely ready before we perform. But Madame promises to give you all plenty of notice before the big day. The play is called "La Poule Maboule" and is an interpretation of the classic story of the chicken who thinks that the sky is falling. We are all memorizing the entire play so it is taking us quite a while to build up to it, but we are enjoying the process and we love it when we get a turn to play one of the roles. The Grade 1s have also been continuing to read with our Big Buddies in the mornings. Many of us have moved beyond practicing our alphabet sounds now and are working on sounding out syllables, reading our coloured flashcards, and becoming experts on some levelled reading books. We have so much love for our Big Buddies and never want them to leave! Madame is pretty sure the feeling is mutual for the Big Buddies. ;-) We're getting into a pretty good rhythm with our literacy stations and, for the most part, are getting to work right away on what needs to be done. Some of us (even some of our Ks!) are beginning to soar through our reading word lists! We love honking Madame's strange-looking horn to get everyone's attention when we complete a level, and then having the whole class sing us a "Bravo!" song. For those of us who haven't yet made it past the first level, Madame tells us not to worry. We will be having lots more in-class practice time in the New Year with our words and we WILL start to grasp them! To borrow an analogy: "Popcorn is prepared in the same pot, under the same heat, in the same oil, but they don't pop at the same time. Don't compare yourself to others. Your turn to pop is coming!" Madame says that the most important thing for us at this age is that we are ENJOYING our learning process and that we hold tight to the wonder and excitement of discovering the world around us. If our grown-ups push TOO hard, we may lose that wonder. And losing that wonder would be a far greater tragedy than being a little slower to grasp reading concepts. We love... ...writing our words with smelly felts. ...building our words with Bananagram letters. ...writing our words into Play-Doh or forming each letter with the Play-Doh. ...typing words on keyboards, tracing them in salt trays, and more! We also really enjoy our quiet reading times and learning how to use our words in the context of a sentence.
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