We kicked off 2024 with a “bang”!… literally. Madame had balloons hung up and we got to pop them throughout the day, revealing surprise fun activities - watch a French show, play a game, and our favourite: have a dance party. We enjoyed watching the replay of the New Year’s countdown and fireworks show from France at the Arc de Triomphe, and were also amazed by a Guinness Book of World Records-breaking drone show - 15,000 drones reenacting the story of “The Nutcracker”. New Year's is a special holiday because it's the most widely celebrated in countries all around the world! We decided after much discussion about New Year's resolutions that it would be a good idea to make some resolutions of our own. Did you know that Monday is "Black Excellence Day?" This is a special day to celebrate Black history, and learn more about Black stories, art, and achievements leading up to Black History Month in February. We kicked off our learning by reading stories about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. We were shocked to hear that they were treated differently by people (and even by the government!) just because of the colour of their skin. But we loved the message from the book about Martin Luther King Jr - instead of fighting hate with hate, it is so much more powerful to fight hate with love. We talked about how our skin is really just "the wrapping paper" for the amazing person we are inside. (La peau ce n'est que l'emballage.) We have begun learning about money, money, money! Next week will be the big launch of our classroom economic system so to prepare, we took a deep dive into nickels. And clearly, we needed to practice counting by 5s if we're going to be counting nickels! There's a song for that... (Thank you, P!nk, for the inspiration!...and Madame's children for the execution.) ;-) And while pennies are virtually obsolete, they are ever so helpful from a mathematical perspective for understanding the building blocks. So we played a little game that had us trading our pennies for nickels, our nickels for dimes, and... for the few lucky ones who managed to "win" the game... our dimes for a loonie! (Sidenote: there is a French name for these various coins, but it's a mouthful: "une pièce de 5 sous", for example. So because we live in a predominantly English-speaking community and this is such a real world topic, we're focusing on the English terms instead... while speaking French, of course!) ;-) This week we had the first of what Madame is calling our "guest presenters"... former students of Madame's that have a great skill to share with us! It was Lincoln and Alex this time, who showed us how to make working bow and arrows with K'nex! Merci, grands amis! Extra photos... snooooow!
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