As the song goes, we were “feeling hot, hot, hot” this week! With the weather getting increasingly beautiful and sunny, we’re taking every opportunity to get outside. Our Math lessons this week have been focused on measurement. It’s easy to measure something straight, but what about things that are strange shapes? Mme Van Sickle showed us how we could use string to measure something, then hold that piece of string up to a ruler to see how long it actually is. We measured the head circumference of a number of our friends and then tried to think of other things we could measure with string. Luca excitedly suggested that we could measure the school building if we walked around it with string. Mme Van Sickle thought about it for a second, shrugged her shoulders, threw out the rest of the lesson plan, and said, “Hey, why not?!” We weren’t able to make it all the way around because our string kept getting knotted at the end, but we all thought Mme was ca-raaaaaazy for actually trying this and it was giggles galore. We also got outside this week for a presentation about chickens. We got to see how the chickens look in various stages of life, and we learned about the different layers in an egg and that they need a rooster to fertilize them to create a baby chick. We were also very intrigued by the tidbit that red is a chicken’s favourite colour. In fact, in chicken coops things like their water and food sources are often painted red because it ensures that they will gravitate towards them. Some other outside highlights from this week were mailing our super secret letters, and playing with big buddies on the big kids playground. In French, we went on some phonics scavenger hunts, trying to find as many words around the classroom as we could that contained the blends that we have been working on. We’re also learning about how to write more detailed sentences. Instead of just saying, “Le lapin saute” (the rabbit jumps), we can say, “Le grand lapin blanc saute dehors avec son ami” (the big white rabbit jumps outside with his friend). We are quite excited about trying out some more complex sentences next week! Today was a big day for us because we participated in the French primary poetry recital. We’ve been secretly practicing our Mother’s Day poem and finally had the chance to perform it. We were very proud of our performance but, being the youngest in the room, we found it tough to sit and listen to the rest of the poems. Nevertheless, we were very patient, and got to enjoy a special treat as soon as we got back to the classroom, courtesy of Emily who turns 7 tomorrow! (Happy birthday, Emily!) Popsicles made life very happy again.
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