We survived the heat on our big walk for ice cream! We would like to give a shout-out to water spouts, pool noodles, and Sam's bags of ice for creating all kinds of cooling-down fun! Never mind the ice cream, even just the walk to the park provided some tasty treats along the way. Hello, beautifully ripened salmon berries! It was a mini feast. After the berry-picking, we went treasure-hunting. Though not a true geocache experience, it gave us the flavour of it. Earlier in the week, we had plotted various routes to our destination on a map, learning about the compass rose and the various symbols on a map. (Can we walk along the dotted lines? Why are some parts green? Can we just draw a line straight from our starting point to the end? Can we go along that blue path?) In the end, we realized that there were many ways to get to the same place, but we chose what we thought would be the most efficient route. And after following our maps to the community garden, we used a clue to help us find the exact plot where our treasure box was hidden. We were thrilled to be able to all pick out a piece of treasure to bring home the next day. Hopefully some of us will be inspired to download the geocache app and try some real "treasure hunting" with our families. And then there was lots of playground fun, and of course... ice cream! And... why did the chicken cross the road??... to get to Mme Van Sickle's classroom, of course! Huge thanks to Farmer Crystal for bringing some of our favourite chickens back to visit us, now almost fully grown! We were amazed at how different they looked from when we used to snuggle them in the classroom! But they still had their distinct personalities - Fluffball loved ear scratches (yes, chickens have ears!) and snuggles; Bolt loved to bolt. We also finished up our Scratch Jr. projects this week and had some free time to try playing Minecraft Education. Belle came to the rescue as our resident expert on all things Minecraft! She definitely knew way more than Madame. Mme Abby's class also worked on some projects this week - dioramas showing various predators and prey. We loved touring through their classroom, finding some familiar faces from the playground, and listening to the students explain their projects to us in French. They did an amazing job! We also had a ton of fun with our "Guinea Pig Olympics" this week! And with our play performances. We were so excited to perform for our families and we did a phenomenal job! (Links to videos from the play were sent out via e-mail). Extra photos...
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