Merci, merci! (thank you, thank you!) for a great week! With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we had a big focus this week on being thankful and on turkeys, of course! We spent some time gathering leaves of different colours, shapes and textures to create our own little pinecone turkeys. In the process, we learned about the differences between pinecones from Douglas Fir trees and those of Pine Trees. (Ask us to describe the difference to you!) We also had so much fun learning about the seeds from Maple Trees, chestnuts and their shells, etc, that some of us began bringing in treasures that we found on our own at home. We even made some art out of them. The Grade 1s wrote out the things that they are thankful for on little slips of paper, while the Kindergarten students dictated their answers to Madame. The final result is a little Thanksgiving turkey gift for Maman et Papa. In Math this week, we continued practicing our counting by doing a nature scavenger hunt outdoors, using 10-frames to count the items we found. We also spent some time in Spirit Square, jumping up the steps to count forwards, and then coming back down the steps to count backwards. We learned that there are a different amount of steps on one side of the band stand seats than the other! Now that we are getting so good at recognizing our numbers, we began a new Math unit this week on shapes! Madame introduced us to her ca-raaaazy shapes parody of Mambo Number 5. She even brought out her trumpet (but made sure to play it facing away from us because...COVID). ;-) We took our shapes learning outdoors, too, spending time on the first day with our big buddies/little buddies drawing out the shapes that we know already in chalk. On Day 2, we went on a shapes photo scavenger hunt around the school grounds. It's amazing how many shapes are all around us that we never even thought about! Madame uploaded all of our photos to the computer so that we could review them the following day on the Smart Board. We loved being able to use the magic markers to trace over our shapes directly on the photos. We were noticing shapes everywhere afterwards, including in our lunches! "Madame! My cucumbers look like circles!" "My sandwich is cut into triangles!" "My lunchbox is a rectangle!" In Science, we've had fun this week with our ongoing colour mixing experiment. We started with just the primary colours and then watched over the course of several days as the colours slowly crawled along the paper towels and mixed to create new colours! We are getting very good at identifying our colours in French! We've also had fun this week trying out some different toys in the classroom!
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