Well, this week went a little differently than planned! Madame didn't manage to get many pictures because of Wednesday's "snow day", followed by her two-day absence, but we still managed to get in a few stories from the week in between putting on our myriad of snow gear...then taking it off...then putting it on again... The warm blanket was a hot-ticket item. And here we are taking the classic photo head tilt to the extreme... We forged ahead with our classroom economy this week and were bursting with excitement over getting our very own class piggy banks. Madame even let us colour our names with colourful permanent markers. In Science, we began our mini unit on solids, liquids and gases. Madame taught us a big kid concept about her "atom" friends who hold hands to make molecules. The molecules make up most of the objects around us. When two Hydrogen atoms join hands with an Oxygen atom, it makes a water molecule! Lots of water molecules tightly packed together make a SOLID. Water molecules further apart make a LIQUID. And water molecules much further apart make a GAS. We went outside to play a game where Madame would yell: "Solide!" and we all had to run together and get as tightly packed as possible. Then she would yell: "Liquide!" and we would spread apart. Harrison became "the knife" (le couteau) in this game and had to try to cut through all of the molecules. We noticed that it was really hard for him to get through the group when we were in "solide" formation, but easy when we were "liquide" or "gaz". Young Max, who Madame sometimes suspects is actually a 30-year-old man in disguise (in absolutely the most endearing way), really seemed to grasp the concept and spent his free time drawing out and adding to Madame's initial diagram. Way to go, Max! On Friday some of us enjoyed dressing up as "twins" for "Twin Day" and in the afternoon we enjoyed a school-wide assembly all about perseverance and how important it is to just keep trying. We even got to watch a fun video about it: Comments are closed.
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