Joyeux Noël! We had some special visitors at the school today! (More pictures of each of the kids with Santa will be coming soon! There was a photographer present, but Madame just snapped a few photos on her own). A huge "merci" to the PAC and all of the volunteers for making this happen for the kids! We also got to exchange Christmas cards with our Grade 6/7 buddies this morning! It's been a week full of Christmas cheer, as we also walked to the high school to make Christmas ornaments with some of the Grade 9 art students. It was exciting to see many former PME students among the group! The principal even stopped by to say "hello" and to give us Smarties! We've definitely gotten our steps in this week, because we also did another Thursday forest walk! It's amazing how we create our own learning experiences while we're there - practicing our writing, learning about teamwork, discovering bugs, strategizing for fort building, creating make-believe scenarios, etc. Many of the Grade 1s even took it upon themselves to assess the Kindergarten students' French counting abilities while we were there, proudly showing Madame where they had written down the numbers that their little buddies were able to count. Christmas made its way into our classroom Science this week with a candy cane experiment. Which candy cane would dissolve the quickest - in cold water, hot water, vinegar, or oil? We had a number of different hypotheses and charted both our guesses and our actual observations. In the end, we noticed that the hot water dissolved the candy cane the fastest! Vinegar was next in line, and then cold water. The oil didn't dissolve it at all! Extra pics...
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