We kicked off our week with an exciting presentation from the "Maple Man" - a Québecois man who goes to different schools presenting about how maple syrup is made. The entire presentation was in French so it was a bit tricky to follow for our little guys at times, but for the most part they were very patient and attentive. They especially loved getting the chance to play with the traditional Québecois spoons, and taste candied maple syrup on a stick, made by pouring hot maple syrup onto snow. A movie clip of everyone playing with spoons. (I didn't want to upload it to YouTube so you'll have to download it if you want to view it): ![]()
We introduced a new set of dictée words this week and have been playing games and doing activities with them every day in class. One of the students' favourite games is a type of charades, trying to guess the word based on the teacher's gestures, then locate the word on the chart paper list. If they can do this, they win a nickel. And speaking of nickels, the students visited "le magasin" again today and most had way more nickels to spend than they did last week because they have upped their French-speaking game and have been doing lots of little things around the classroom to help Mme Van Sickle. Almost all of the students were able to use their nickels to count by 5s and figure out what kind of prizes they could buy at "le magasin" based on how much money they had. There were a lot of excited, happy faces!
We have really lucked out with the weather this week and were able to do our centre time outside at Spirit Square yesterday, had a beautiful walk to Hoffman Park today, and are hoping to be able to go outside for centres with the other K and K/1 (English) classes tomorrow afternoon...if there isn't too much snow! Comments are closed.
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