Rain, rain go away...come again another day! Actually, if you could stay away for a while, that would be great. Thanks. Signed, all teachers everywhere ;-) Despite having been confined to the indoors during both recesses yesterday, we still went on our afternoon walk to Hoffman Park in the pouring rain. We learned a new word of the day: "trempé(e)" (drenched). Most of us had a fabulous time at the beginning of our outing, walking through giant puddles, playing tag and hide-and-go-seek, and even pretending to build "campfires" with umbrellas. But by the time we got back to school, we were all dripping wet and very cold! It wasn't all rain this week, though! Monday was a beautiful, sunny day and we managed to get to Spirit Square with Mme Towne's class to take advantage of the snow that was left over from the event on Friday evening. Photo credits for last two photos: Mme Towne We also got our "festive" on this week with some fun Christmas creating activities. Our Big Buddies prepared a special Christmas Tree craft for us using popsicle sticks, and we also got to decorate a paper tree that will be placed in the gym for our Christmas concert. One of the secretaries even gave us a bunch of fun Christmas puffy stickers and Christmas stamps, so we had a great time on Friday afternoon doing some non-stop crafting. Tuesday was another fun day for us with disco rollerblading! Many of us were grateful to have our Big Buddies there to help us stay upright! And in academic news, we began our Science unit this week on light, learning how to distinguish between natural light and artificial light. We had a fun time when Madame introduced the concept by letting us play around with flashlights, shining them in the dark through coloured paper, prisms, on mirrors, etc. We enjoyed combining different colours of paper to see if we could create new colours, and watching how the light bounced off the mirrors and came back on us. We even discovered that the ball pit balls glow when we put lights up to them! In Math, while we have been regularly practicing addition with our "wall math" and "number of the day" routines, we have now begun our official unit on adding. We are beginning by learning about numbers that we can add together to make 10. Our favourite adding activity this week was the money game. Madame had us work in pairs and gave us all a ten-frame made out of an egg carton. We had to take turns with our partner shaking and spilling our little 1 and 2 counters to add the corresponding number of pennies into the ten frame. As soon as we filled the frame, we raised our hand and Madame would hand us a dime. Then we started the process all over again. The group with the most dimes by the end of the activity was the winner! We were pretty pumped this week, too, to discover all of the fabric in the craft area. We are now begging Madame to bring in real needles and thread to teach us how to sew. Madame has lots of plastic needles for sewing through felt, but they don't work very well through regular fabric. Some of us got creative and used a hole punch to make holes in the fabric, then weave yarn through to make capes and skirts. Apparently Madame will have to go shopping this weekend for some needles!
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