The theatrics continued this week with a special performance of "The Greatest Showman" by our Grades 4-7 students. They did an incredible job and we had so much fun watching them! We even listened to some of the movie soundtrack as we were getting ready to go out for recess. The measurement theme continues in Math, this time with a focus on measuring surface area. Since we aren't using specific units of measurement yet, we just got an overview of the concept by using recipe cards to measure and compare the surface of various things we found around the classroom - even our own bodies! We have also been continuously reviewing financial literacy concepts, just by playing our daily classroom version of "Monopoly". When Madame initially tested us on our knowledge of coins in January, there was only one student out of 20 that was able to complete the assessment correctly. We have been working on redoing the same assessment now in June (4 months later), just to compare our results, and almost all of us have completed it perfectly! (These were all done individually so that students couldn't copy off one another). It goes to show that "play" is sometimes the most powerful form of "work". In French, we are continuing to expand on our understanding of sentence-writing and story-writing, working on concepts such as where to put a period and capital letters, as well as how all good stories have a logical beginning/middle/end. We wrote our own stories about a cow and then enjoyed sharing them with the class. Some of our Kindergarten students just represented their stories through pictures, but they are still showing their understanding of beginning/middle/end. When our Kindergarten friends had a half day on Thursday, the Grade 1s got some concentrated small group time to work with Madame on creating a long story on the board. Each of us contributed a sentence to make a super silly story, working on using connecting words and all of the other sentence and story elements we've been studying. If we could write this much together, surely we could do it on our own, too! And, after Madame really pushed us Grade 1s with our writing, we decided to go on a fun adventure and do a coin-flip walk. The idea - flip a coin at every intersection. If it lands on "heads" (face), we go to the left (à gauche). If it lands on tails (pile), we go to the right (à droite). We learned some new vocabulary with the walk and also had quite the adventure of twists and turns around Pitt Meadows. By chance, we ended up near Madame's house and, since we knew that "Sensei Amy" from the after school karate program lived in Madame's complex, we decided to pay her a little surprise visit. She was more than a little shocked, but said that it absolutely made her day. And she has given Madame permission to post this photo. ;-) We played on Madame's complex playground, then headed over to 7/11 for a well-deserved treat to end our afternoon. Extra photos...
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