It was "anything but a backpack day"! And we went on a bus adventure! For at least half of us, this was our very first time riding the city bus! We were very excited!! (Madame apologizes for cutting some people off in this photo... the sun and oncoming traffic while she was standing in the road made it difficult to see what she was doing!) It was so great to have this opportunity to see kids performing in the "Frozen Jr" show, some of whom were about the same age as us! The performance was really outstanding! And speaking of performing, we have been preparing for a performance of our own called "Où est mon chien?" (Where is my dog?) All of us will have individual speaking parts in this play, but at the moment, we are all working on memorizing the WHOLE play. Madame says that this helps us to create French story and conversation patterns in our brains. To help us/test us on the memorization of the play, Madame introduced us to a coding app this week called Scratch Jr. The idea is that we are re-creating the various scenes of the play in the app, like a digital storybook. On each page, we add the characters and can use coding tools to make the characters move and interact. It's amazing how adept we have gotten at the program in such a short time! We are already teaching Madame about features she didn't know existed! In the end, we will each record our voices retelling the entire play as a voice-over for our projects. Madame is thrilled with all the cross-curricular learning that is happening with this one project - coding, story elements (characters, setting, plot), oral language, etc. Hopefully we will be able to take screen captures of the projects in the end to share with our parents. As we have been memorizing these different story patterns, many of us have begun transferring that oral language to written form, creating our own completely unique variations of the story. We are so proud to be writing 2-, 3- and even 4-page stories! In Math, we are continuing to deepen our knowledge of measurement, focusing on centimetres and millimetres, and how to convert between the two. We enjoyed measuring a variety of objects outside and sketching them in our Math journals. And we have some new insect friends in the classroom - caterpillars! We have been slowly watching them grow over this last week and we can't believe how huge they are compared to when we first got them! Many of them have already started forming their chrysalis (...chrysalises, chrysalides...??) Extra photos... Comments are closed.
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