Another week, another theme day! Happy 100s day! For those of you unfamiliar with this elementary school tradition, every year primary classes across the continent celebrate the 100th day of school. Why? Because 100 is a very special number. If you can count to 100, you can basically count to 999 and beyond. In French Immersion, this is an especially big milestone. Can we all ACTUALLY count to 100 in French yet? ...nope. But many of us are getting very close! And celebrating the number affords us the exciting mathematical opportunity to notice how 10 days (pennies) can be traded for a dime, and then 10 dimes can finally be traded for... ...a loonie! We enjoyed many celebratory activities today, including getting a sneak peak into what we will look like when we are 100 years old. For some of us, it ain't pretty. Let's hope nature is kinder to us than Madame's aging app predicts. We enjoyed singing some counting songs that got us all the way to 100 in French, and Madame also taught us a sneaky shortcut way - count by 10s! We learned her "Hollaback Girl"-inspired song and then used the tune to have a rap battle. In our short 3-day week, we have cheated and read some English books. Normally Madame likes to try to stick to French-only, but sometimes concepts are a little deeper and it's important that we fully grasp them and are able to have discussions that can touch our emotions in a way that is difficult in our 2nd (or 3rd, for some) language. Since February is "Black History Month", we have spent some time reading about the colour of our skin. We learned that our skin is just like "wrapping paper". Just like we don't know what's beneath the wrapping paper until we open up the present, we can't know what a person is like just by looking at the colour of their skin. We have to get to know them first! We took a look at the different shades of skin in our class. We noticed that even though there's not a lot of variety in our classroom compared to other classrooms where Madame has taught, we can still see subtle differences in our paler colours. Every shade is beautiful in its own way! We also learned about a very special person on our Canadian $10 bill named Viola Desmond. Madame brought in a $10 bill for us to touch and observe, and we learned about who this special woman is whose picture adorns our money. We were so surprised to hear that somebody would be told that they couldn't do something, just because of how they looked! In French class, we have continued to work on our special art books with a new picture for each sound. We can't wait to complete them and bring them home to share with you! With each drawing, Madame is noticing our confidence improving. We used to panic when we couldn't follow the directed drawing directions right away but now we are getting so much better at being patient, allowing ourselves to make mistakes, putting our own special spin on our art, and appreciating what we have done rather than comparing it with others. Our walk to the forest this week was a wet one. But in the words of our literary friend, Pete the Cat, did we cry? "Goodness, no!" We just kept walking along and singing our song. Even after all this time, it never ceases to amaze Madame how our imaginations come to life in the outdoors. Large sticks become canons in a serious territorial battle, we build fires to keep warm, we find bombs (oh no!), and even discover special treasures hidden in concrete! Thank you to Heather Patry for many of the photos below. All of the best ones are hers! ;-) But seriously, what is this thing...?
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