Our class guinea pigs upgraded to a mansion this week! We were so excited when we arrived on Monday morning to find Madame had all the parts laid out for the new cage. Many of our great LEGO and Magnatile builders got to put their skills to real life use, eagerly looking through the directions to help Madame put it all together. Sienna even gifted them with a housewarming gift with their names on it. ;-) In Math, we have been practicing adding with doubles (2+2, 3+3, 4+4...) This is a mental math strategy because if we know how to add doubles, then doubles + 1 starts to become easy ("I know that 5 + 6 = 11, because 5 + 5 = 10 and then I just add 1 more!") To learn our doubles in French, Madame introduced us to a silly and dramatic song that she made with her kids, with a tune that some of the parents that grew up in the 90s will remember well. (You'll just have to excuse the scratchy singing. We definitely have nothing on the Backstreet Boys). We are also learning that equations can be written horizontally or vertically! We've been working hard at identifying French digraphs (2 letters that together make one sound). This week's focus was on "ch" and "au". We drew art inspired by the digraphs, did relay races, slapped the sounds with fly swatters, went on scavenger hunts for words containing those sounds, played reading games with dice, and created sentences based around the digraphs. We started upping our game with the fly swatter game by having Madame write an extra letter before the digraphs to make it a little trickier. We had to really listen extra hard for those 2-letter sounds and try to be the first to slap the correct one. Finding words hidden around the classroom... Our Ks are just expected to write one or two of the vocabulary words and draw a picture, but many of them are stretching themselves and beginning to write actual sentences! Bravo! Extra pics...
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