C'est l'Halloween... HEY! C'est l'Halloween! We had a great pre-Halloween day with all kinds of amazing costumes, some spooky French stories, and some arts and crafts! In fact, there has been a lot happening around pumpkins all week! We finished our pumpkin art and have been studying the life cycle of the pumpkin through song (the recording features the students singing with me!) and through a cut-and-paste sequencing exercise. This week we concluded our shapes unit by building towers out of 3D shapes. Madame gave us the difficult task of working in a group of 4 and doing only ONE tower. This required a lot of teamwork, communication and compromise. Many of the groups started with at least two separate towers and had to figure out how to join the towers together in a way that made everyone happy. In the end, most of us were really successful and we practiced using the phrase: "Ça c'est un..." for identifying the different kinds of shapes on our towers when we presented them to the class. Next we dove into patterns and it was patterns here, patterns there, patterns, patterns everywhere! We found them on our clothes, in the classroom, and on the playground equipment. We discovered there were patterns on the school building and that we could make patterns with items that we found in nature. We observed that patterns aren't always linear... they can be round, stacked and swirly too! Later we had a mini musical notation lesson and learned that there are patterns everywhere in music! We used patterns to create our own music and then played our compositions on the xylophone. We've been taking advantage of some breaks in the rain to do our afternoon playtime/reading with Madame outside on occasion. Madame pulls us one at a time to spend about 5 minutes each sitting on a bench reading with her while the rest of us play. Until now, we've been focusing on just the Grade 1s' reading, but some of our Ks have also been reading with Madame when they bring in their flashcard boxes to exchange. Madame has been so impressed with everyone's efforts! Joyeux Halloween!Comments are closed.
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