Well, bonjour! Thanks for stopping by! This is the space where you get to check out all of the cool stuff that's happening in our class. We've spent a lot of time this week connecting with one another. Mme Van Sickle had the Grade 1 buddies introduce their Kindergarten buddies (in French), say how old they are, and what their favourite colour is. After each introduction, the students threw a ball of yarn to the next person. By the end, we had a great spiderweb effect and we talked about how we are all connected in this class and are here to support each other. ...and then we stood up and had fun passing through the "laser beam" tunnel. The unofficial theme in our class this week has been "kindness". What can we do to be kind to others? What does that look like? We read a couple of books about kindness, including one called "How full is your bucket?" in which we imagined everyone having invisible buckets over their heads. The buckets fill up when people do nice things for us (or when WE do nice things for OTHERS), and the buckets empty when we are feeling sad. We decided that we all want to be "bucket FILLERS". We each coloured a bucket in a pattern (mathematical concept this week) and then tried to think of something that we could do to be kind to others to fill their buckets. We talked about how sometimes, being kind means sharing something that you really love. Mme Van Sickle LOVES the m&m cookies from Superstore. So as a class, we helped her share some of these cookies with our Grade 6/7 big buddy class. And we delivered the cookies wearing capes and masks because when we are kind, we are superheroes! We wear our masks because being kind is not about receiving recognition for what we are doing. Afterwards, the students said that their buckets were so full from the experience "that they reached up to GOD!"...and "my bucket is filled up all the way to my Grandma's house!"...and "my bucket is filled up all the way to Paris!" We all agreed that it felt really good to make other people happy! Our Grade 1s had their introduction to journal-writing this week, as well. Our hand muscles have been on a 2-month summer vacation so some of us really had to push through on this exercise, but we all completed it! And we talked about how in just a couple of months, we will look back at this exercise and think that it's SOOOO easy! Just like dance, soccer, hockey, and playing an instrument, we have to practice writing and reading to get better at it. In Science, we talked about germs and how they can spread quickly from one thing to another. We put glitter on a cup to represent germs and then a volunteer grabbed the cup. The glitter got all over his hands, and then he shook hands with another student. We picked up some pencils and scissors and saw the glitter transfer to those, as well, and then we went around high-fiving each other. It was a good visual of why it's so important to wash our hands. We've all been having a great time exploring all of the toys, crafts, and nooks and crannies in the classroom this week!
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