We celebrated a National hero this week with our Terry Fox run. We were all very intrigued by Terry's story and had some great discussion about the word "persévérance". Perseverance is when you keep going, even when something is hard. Madame told us that it's not important to her whether we become the best readers or the best at counting to 100 in French... the important thing is that we keep trying, even when it's hard. We thought of the ways that we do this already in our lives and enjoyed singing along to the song, "Terry Fox La Persévérance". Another theme for this week has been Thanksgiving! We practiced singing along to the song "Merci, Merci", and then wrote in our journals about things that we're thankful for. Grade 1s did a great job of trying to sound out words on their own, and our Ks drew a picture to describe their thoughts and Madame helped with the description. We also talked about how we are now in the season of "automne" and the leaves are all changing colours. We went on a leaf colour hunt and brought back all kinds of colourful treasures! We used these to practice our French colour words and to make little Thanksgiving turkeys. In Math, we've been focusing on one number per day, following along with the calendar dates in October. We've been enjoying doing this outside, no matter the weather, and getting our whole bodies involved - jumping, clapping, leaping, etc as we count. We're learning about tally marks, dice (a mathematical concept called "subitizing"), and 10-frames. Grade 1s have also been doing something called "Mur de maths" (Wall Math) every afternoon as their ticket to playtime. We are slowly building on our basic mathematical concepts and practicing them in print each day. We've continued working on our French feelings vocabulary this week with the introduction of a new, special chart featuring our own pictures! We each got to decorate a stick to represent ourselves and every morning, we place the stick beneath the picture that best represents our feelings at the moment. We are allowed to move the stick during the day since feelings can change a lot. This process not only helps us to learn French vocabulary, but also to become introspective. Extra photos for fun...
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