This week has been all about setting and practicing our routines. We are getting more adept at completing our Math work independently, showing how to arrive at numbers of slowly-increasing difficulty. In French, we've continued working through our letter-sound review and have begun journaling with those letter sounds. We also had a lot of fun with a new "orthographic mapping" activity that Madame introduced. She calls out a word or sound and we have to try to write the sounds that we hear in the boxes. Some of us have started doing this activity one-on-one with Madame, as well. And the biggest development in French Literacy for us this week has been the kick-off of our home reading program. Madame has been pulling many of us aside each day to go through our flashcards with her and when she thinks we're ready to move to the next level, we get to honk a funny bike horn. The whole class stops what they're doing, sings a celebratory song, yells "Bravo!", and sometimes there are even high-fives and hugs involved. We're all on different flashcard levels, but Madame assures us that it doesn't matter! She brought out one of her marathon medals from Paris to show us and asked, "Do you think I got this medal because I WON the race?" Some of us thought that must be why, but then she explained that she was nowhere CLOSE to winning the race. Marathons are really long and they're hard... a lot of people give up, either in training or during the actual race. So if you cross the finish line, you automatically get a medal. It doesn't matter what the person in front of you is doing, or the person behind you. All that matters is getting to the end. Madame explained to us that it's the same with reading... It doesn't matter if one friend speeds ahead or one friend is getting there a little more slowly. What matters is that we keep on going and don't give up, even when it's hard. If we do that, we WILL be able to read by the end of the year! And that's definitely something to celebrate! And speaking of marathons, we spent some time talking about Terry Fox this week and his "Marathon of Hope." Madame was impressed with how much we already knew about Terry Fox, but we read a couple of books about him and watched a video to learn more. We also had a great time looking on Google Earth and Google Maps to find the country of Canada, where we are in Pitt Meadows, and how that compares with where Terry started and ended his run. We talked about how WE can be brave just like Terry! Extra pics... Many of these extras are the result of: "Madame, can you take a picture and send it to my mom??" ;-)
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