We're getting excited about our fishing trip next week! For our team challenge, we looked at the anatomy of a fishing rod and tried to find items around the classroom that could be used as a weight and a bobber. How could we put all of these things together to make a functional rod? We had some great ideas! Madame also brought in a real fishing rod and some of us had fun practicing how to cast with it. (Don't worry, the hook had cork on the end! Nobody was harmed in the making of these photos.) We talked about what Indigenous people used to use for fishing, before there were rods, and we learned that they would make their own spears and also weave their own nets and baskets out of grass, cedar bark, etc. Some of us tried out some weaving with hay from the guinea pigs and found that it's much more difficult than it looks! And speaking of Indigenous themes, we had an author from the Ahousaht Nation on Vancouver Island come to visit us this week. He brought his drum and sang some songs with us, and also read us a book that he wrote all about when he got his first drum. We were so excited when he gifted us our very own copy! In French, we have been learning about a new grammatical concept - nouns! Sneaky Madame has actually been teaching us subliminally all year about this concept through Show-and-Tell. Every day, we ask the presenter about the item hiding in their bag: "Is it a person? Is it an animal? Is it a place? Is it a thing?" Guess what!... these are all nouns! It was time to try out a new park for our weekly walk, and we were all begging to go back to this one! Big thanks to Aiden's grandpa for bringing extra snacks and water to share with us! At first he tried to convince us that he had brought BROCCOLI!!!... but the truth was much more exciting - gummies for everyone! Extra photos...
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