This week's cultural focus was on "le carnaval de Québec", a week-long festival in Quebec that celebrates winter, culture, and tradition with all kinds of fun activities. The "Bonhomme Carnaval", a snowman, is the official representative of the Carnaval so if you've noticed white powder all over the ground just outside of our classroom, that's from when we made our own "bonhommes" out of fake snow. We watched a video about the amazing ice sculptures that are also made every year for le Carnaval and we tried our hand at making our own sculptures out of sugar cubes. This was as much a cultural lesson as it was a learning experience on how to work together as a team to create a plan, communicate our intentions, and resolve conflict. We learned about the art of compromise, with one group even sharing about how one of their members wanted to build a robot while the rest of the group wanted to build an igloo. They figured it out among themselves and built a robot INSIDE of an igloo so that everyone was happy! Proud teacher moment. And in our final celebratory activity, we had a giant snowball fight IN THE CLASSROOM. We don't know what Madame was thinking in allowing us to do this, and even she is questioning her sanity, but it was a lot of fun! The classic Carnaval tunes in the background really got us in the mood. After this week, most of us have been saying how we wished we LIVED in Quebec! In French, we continue to forge ahead with our digraph lessons with a focus this week on the sound "ou". We learned many vocabulary words with the sound "ou" in them, and had fun doing an outdoor relay race for "ou" items. And a big "merci" again to everyone who sent in photos of their children for our autobiography books. (Anyone who didn't have photos just drew a picture of their families, which worked great, as well!) We're having a lot of fun putting together our little scrapbooks, even trying some new techniques to make our photos pop up off the page. It is also providing us with some great sentence-writing opportunties. And some forest photos...
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