TGIF! And happy Friday the 13th! But wait, isn't it Monday? This is definitely one of the strangest weeks to add to the books. But we also remember that the reason we had a day off on Wednesday was to commemorate Remembrance Day and all the reasons we enjoy peace in our country. Peace is love.Peace is loving others.Peace is reading.Peace is helping others.Peace is the soldiers who keep us free.Peace is watching the snow fall....these are just some of the many answers that the students gave to the question of "Qu'est-ce la paix?" (What is peace?) We enjoyed taking part in a school-wide Zoom assembly, with mini performances by several classes and a video all about the history of poppies. Madame was SO impressed with how seriously we took the event and how quiet and respectful we were the whole time. We all did a great job of standing for "O Canada", as well, and even singing along wherever we could. Parker and Allie from our class even had the chance to go to the cenotaph with a group of students from PME to lay their poppy rocks on the monument. Thank you to Mrs. Bateson, our wonderful secretary, for the photos below. All of the students are encouraged to find a special place around their neighbourhood to place their rocks to remind everyone who sees them of the peace that we have, and of how we shouldn't take that for granted. We have continued our study of squirrels (les écureuils) this week. We've been enjoying looking through books, asking all kinds of questions, and even making our own little books all about them. To reinforce what we learned about squirrels' predators, we played a game of tag that Madame called "Prédateurs". All of the students started out as "les écureuils" (squirrels), with just one in the middle as the "prédateur". The prédateur had to chase les écureuils from one side of the basketball court to the other and any students that were tagged became prédateurs, too! Les prédateurs got to choose which animal they were - a fox, wolf, coyote, hawk, marten... We were all very invested in this game! Sadly, most of our écureuils fell victim to les prédateurs, but... life, right?? We've also been trying our hand at building our own écureuils out of wood. We learned about the adjectives "lisse" (smooth) and "rugueux" (rough) as we sanded our blocks of wood. And we loved taking turns hammering in our legs and tails. (Protective eyewear was sanitised between each use.) The whole process was a little messy, but also a lot of fun and we were very pleased with the end result. And bonus... no fingers, toes or other limbs were harmed in the making of this project.
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