Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo!... And it's about time! The rest of our butterflies emerged from their chrysalis over the weekend and some of us boys who were a little hesitant to hold them last week finally warmed up to the idea on Monday. Madame has been working us hard with all the walking around town we've been doing. Wednesday was our 2nd ice skating trip and some of us who had been so scared to go out on the ice the last time were among the first ones out there this time! And then, in a test of our walking stamina, Madame had us walk the very next day to Eagle Park for the afternoon. There was something for everyone there!... trees to climb, giant sticks for building forts and even "ladders" into our forts, playground equipment to hang and swing from, and a huge field for playing soccer. We had such a great time but many of us had sore legs on the return trip. ;-) Thank you to Holly for many of these photos! The weather was so perfect today that Madame brought us outside for a picnic. It was Lincoln's birthday so he shared some Twinkies with us for a perfect little birthday celebration! Merci, Lincoln! For Math this week, we've continued with our measurement theme. We went on a stick hunt and found what we deemed to be the perfect measuring stick. As a class, we talked about how some sticks are better than others... curvy sticks won't work as well for measuring because we can't lay them out straight. We measured our sticks with unifix cubes, then went outside to measure various things around the playground using only our sticks. During play time, Madame has been bringing out the rainbow loom elastics. We've been figuring out how to make all kinds of jewelry with nothing but pencils and elastics. Some of us are getting so good at it that we've started teaching it to our friends. In French, we've been doing a big push lately to work on improving our writing. Specifically, we want to be working on putting periods in the right places, spaces between words, and understanding when to use capital and lowercase letters. Madame has been doing "correct the error" challenges and anyone who can guess an error and how to fix it gets a nickel. We are amazingly engaged. ;-) Extra photos...
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