In honour of Terry Fox, today was also... "Neon Day"??... We're not sure how the two fit together, but we absolutely loved getting our neon on! It's been a Terry Fox theme all week and the French song "Je cours comme Terry" has been running on repeat in our heads. ...Maybe because Madame keeps playing it as our clean-up song and we all roll our eyes at her and say, "Madaaaaaaame!" when she randomly starts singing it and dancing throughout the day. We started the week by brainstorming what we already know about Terry Fox and we enjoyed looking on Google Maps to figure out where, exactly, he ran in comparison with where we live. We've also been reading a French book about Terry each day and becoming more familiar with the vocabulary. We talked about a big word: "perseverance"... what does the word mean, and how did Terry persevere? "Terry kept on going, even when it was hard." Then we thought about some things that we really want to persevere at. Madame was secretly hoping we would write things like "French reading" and "Math equations", but she accepted our answers of "building a Minecraft mansion" and "doing a cartwheel", too. ;-) Hey, as long as we're understanding what it means to keep going, even when it's tough. All of this talk about Terry Fox culminated in our big run today! And we all did keep going, even when it was tough... and hot! Some of us dedicated our run to someone specific, and others just decided to run to help everyone in our fight for a cure for cancer. Thanksgiving is also this weekend! We took some time to read a really funny Thanksgiving story that belonged to Mme Wear when she was a child. It was a good lesson about taking care of our books because young Mme Wear scribbled all over some of the pages. Don't ever do that to your books, kids! Then we wrote our own little Thanksgiving accordion books about the things we're thankful for. And guess what?? ...there's a super catchy French Thanksgiving song, too! Wahoo! The weather continues to be outstanding so we took our Math outside this week. Grade 1s drew number lines up to 10, filled a 10-frame with at least two different nature items, and then made it into an equation. Meanwhile, Grade 2s did number lines all the way up to 20! They showed how to make 20 by putting different groups of objects together, wrote out equations, and then had some extra mathematical challenges thrown at them by Madame, relating to their equations. It was a lot of work, but there were no complaints and they handled it very well. Extra photos... Beating the heat with a cool, outdoor vent that we found...
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