We ended up with fabulously warm weather for our Terry Fox run and neon themed day. Bravo to all of the kids for their amazing efforts on the run! It was also pyjama day this week! It was great to come back from a long weekend in our comfy clothes. We have been talking a lot about using our "WITS"- a strategy we will continually practice using throughout the year to resolve conflict. If someone is bothering us, we should first try to Walk away and/or Ignore them. If that doesn't work, then we Talk to them ("Stop! I don't like that!"). And if that still doesn't work, then we should Seek help. If we try to come to Madame about a conflict before we try our W, I, T, then she will start sending us back to try using these strategies first. The goal is to empower us to work through our conflicts independently, with the knowledge that an adult WILL help us if our independent efforts aren't working. We shouldn't have to resort to using our hands or feet to solve our problems. In French news, we are loving celebrating our friends whenever they move up to a new reading level. Sometimes reading, math, and writing can be really tricky! But Madame worked with us this week on the message from the back of our classroom: "Je jeux faire des choses difficiles". (I can do hard things). We are capable of anything if we don't give up and keep on practicing! An equally important message: "Mistakes are how we LEARN!" And we have someone to celebrate in our classroom - Claire! She persevered with the vowels challenge and found an actual English word (that is NOT onomatopoeia) without ANY vowels! She will go down in history, along with one other student of Madame's, who has actually found a workable word! Félicitations, Claire! (Hmm... Madame may have to reduce the cash prize next year. Haha!) With Thanksgiving this weekend, we learned a song all about what we're thankful for. And with the song in mind, we brainstormed our own list of things we're thankful for, then created paper chains with one item listed on each piece of the chain. Some of us got really excited about this activity and wanted to make our chains as LONG as possible! Extra photos...
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