Today we took a mini break from reading French books and I read the students this book about manners: It's an excellent teaching tool for helping students to better understand how to treat people, how to say "please" and "thank you", how to include others... But it's also embedded with lots of great humour. I confess I may have laughed so hard I cried the first couple of times I read it to my own kids (which was reason enough for them to want me to read it to them every.single.night). If you want to pick up a copy of your own, I highly recommend it. You can grab one on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.ca/Do-Unto-Otters-About-Manners/dp/0312581408/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538624356&sr=8-1&keywords=do+unto+otters We've been talking every day in class about using our manners, including others, and being kind. But we've also been talking about what to do if somebody ISN'T including us or ISN'T kind. We are learning our school's strategy of using our WITS. Some things require us to immediately jump to the last step (Seek help): hitting, biting, or any kind of physical violence. Other things like name-calling, taking a toy from us, not sharing... can often be solved by simply Walking away, Ignoring, or Talking it out. PHONICSWe have now learned and practiced the following sounds: s, a, t, m, i. Please continue to reinforce these sounds at home, as you can. Your children should be able to identify the letters and do a gesture that goes with each sound. We have also talked about how 'a' and 'i' belong to a special, exclusive club called the "Vowels" ("Voyelles" in French). Your children should be coming home each night with the sound books pictured below, in which they have pasted the letters that we have worked on so far. We are not practicing the letter names so much yet as the sounds, themselves, so don't be shocked if your child can't name the letter but knows what sound it makes. ColoursWe have also been doing lots of work with colours lately. Our song for this week is all about the rainbow ("l'arc-en-ciel"). We are working on naming the colours and using them to create our own French version of Eric Carle's "Brown Bear" book.
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