We had our last ice skating field trip this week! Many of us actually managed to improve our skill levels quite a bit since the first session. There were some blisters on the walk home this time and some very tired kids, but we persevered and we all made it. :-) We are gearing up for RAC Week by making cards for various staff members around the school to thank them for all of their hard work. Big thanks to Rylee's family for donating all of the awesome Valentine's Day craft materials! Madame Van Sickle received some extra classroom funding and was able to use it to buy a super cool remote-controlled Gear Bot. There are so many different ways that you can build it but if the pieces aren't placed in just the right way, the Gear Bot won't move. We had a blast trying out all kinds of creations and combinations. Madame was also able to get some new Math resources with the funding. We loved the new Math games so much that many of us wanted to play with them during "choice" centres. We have really been up-ing our French-speaking game lately with the lure of receiving money for our efforts. (Sometimes there's just nothing like a little extrinsic motivation!!) ;-) ...Especially since we get to use this money to buy lots of fun things at "le magasin" at the end of each week. Many of us are beginning to piece together vocabulary that we have heard in various contexts to put together all kinds of original sentences that we haven't practiced in class. Whenever we say a non-rehearsed French phrase, we get to use a Bingo dabber to make a "gumball" on our gumball machine pages. Some of us have already begun to fill the entire page!
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