Fall colours are all around us! We had so much fun this week on our first walk to Hoffman Park (la forêt). We have been learning all about squirrels so we went armed with our binoculars (jumelles), searching for any signs of squirrels or their nests. Unfortunately we didn't see any. It's hard to say whether that's because we are likely a very intimidating group for unsuspecting squirrels, or because we were just so distracted by everything else in the forest that by the time we got there, we forgot to look. Madame brought lots of outdoor toys in our wagon in case we needed some "play inspiration", but as it turns out, giant sticks, bugs, and hollowed out logs are more than enough inspiration for us. We asked great questions about different kinds of pinecones (we are learning about the differences between Douglas Fir, Pine and Hemlock), and were curious about those funny-looking mushrooms growing on the logs. We practiced teamwork and collaboration, and stretched our imaginations in all kinds of ways! Hollowed-out stumps became "hot tubs", "2-floor houses", and "castles". And we practiced our French vocabulary with a forest sing-along of Madame's version of "Down by the Bay" - modified to "Dans la forêt". Thanks to Mrs. McMillan for accompanying us! And by the way, if you take a selfie on Madame's phone, she WILL post the selfie. ;-) As we gear up for Remembrance Day, we have also been working on making poppy rocks. Our plan is to lay a couple of them on the cenotaph in Spirit Square next Tuesday, along with many of the other students from our school. PME was even in the news for this! Our class read a book called "A Poppy is to Remember" and shared what we know about Remembrance Day. We learned about the significance of the poppy and about the fun way to say it in French: "un coquelicot". Madame outlined the poppies on the rocks for us, but we got to colour them however we wanted. Many of us tried adding some artistic details and shadowing. In Math, we've begun learning about addition. Madame brought in a funny scale to show us how the concept of equality works. When the numbers are balanced on each side of the scale, they are equal! We had so much fun calling out different numbers for Madame to try and seeing how those translated into equations on the whiteboard. Then Madame let us explore the scale, ourselves, along with doing some individual addition games. Today we learned about the art of First Nations' Pow Wow dancing via Zoom! A Pow Wow dancer named Shyama-Priya joined us on our big screen and showed us how we, too, can do Pow Wow dances! And look out for our Art Cards next week! We have been working very hard on them!
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