This weekend, we remember... After a great Remembrance Day assembly on Friday, we walked out to the cenotaph and had our own moment of silence. With some coaching and discussion, we were able to do this incredibly well. We walked around it, looked at all the names, read the inscriptions, and reflected on what it all meant. We all decided that we are very grateful to live in a country where we live in peace every day. With some help from our big buddies, we made some beautiful poppy art, too. "A poppy is for peace." There's another cultural celebration this weekend - Diwali! This one hails from India and is a celebration of lights. We found India on Google Earth and compared it to where we live. "Wow, that's far away!" We were so happy to have Zahra from our class teach us more about this festival that her family celebrates. And some former students of Madame's let us borrow some of their beautiful Diwali outfits to put on display. We learned about little lamps called diyas that are often a symbol of Diwali. It was so fun to make our own diyas out of clay! But we learned that our diyas DON'T float like many of the real diyas. "Est-ce que ça flotte ou est-ce que ça coule?" Also on the theme of Diwali, we learned about rangoli art. And, while this beautiful art is normally made out of coloured sand or rice, Madame wants to maintain a good relationship with the custodian so we made ours out of pattern blocks. And a wonderful surprise this week!... Mia brought in her baby sister for show-and-tell. Madame says that her ovaries hurt after all those squishy baby snuggles and open-mouthed smiles. ("Stop it. You have 3 kids already. Remember the sleepless nights. Remeeeeeember...!!!") We were all filmed this week for a French Immersion promo video! It was quite an exciting experience having the cameras and film crew with us for about 30 minutes, and we all did an amazing job showing off our conversational French! Extra photos...
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