Did you know that yesterday was the first official day of Fall (or autumne, in French)? We decided to take our lessons outside for awhile and went on a hunt for things that represented Fall to us - leaves of all colours, acorns, sticks, etc... so many great French vocabulary words. And as is often a tradition in primary classes, we took our picture next to a tree so that we can see how it changes over the 4 seasons. In Math, we have been learning about making graphs once per week. This week the question was: "How was your weekend?" We gave Madame some adjectives for the graph (sad, fun, boring, weird) and then put our sticky note in the category that best matched how we felt. We have also been reviewing our numbers to 20, and have been practicing how to make 10 in various ways. One of our favourites was learning a card game that can be played alone or with friends. It provides us with such great practice at recognizing the various combinations of numbers that can be put together to make 10 and has the added bonus of being really fun, too! In French, we have been reviewing our letter sounds while also practicing blending two sounds together. Many of us are experts already at pulling one sound into the next! We've been using Madame's fancy "boîte à mystères" (mystery box) to pull out items that start with our letter of the day, and one day we even tried putting as many of those words together into sentences as we could. As an added challenge on Friday, Madame said some French words out loud and we used bracelet pop-its to push down one bubble for each sound that we heard in the word. Then we tried to write those sounds on our pages. And for our big Friday STEM challenge, Madame had us try making marble runs out of Play-Doh. She also provided us with some chopsticks, a little rolling pin and scissors as materials. This challenge proved to be very tricky! It took us a long time to figure out how to communicate effectively with one another and combine our ideas into something that actually worked. The "corbeaux" (crows) came out ahead in the end, not only because their marble run worked (mostly) ;-) but also because Madame gave them bonus points for speaking kindly to one another the entire time, compromising, and working together so effectively. Bravo! The other groups also came up with some amazingly creative ideas and most of theirs worked, too! Most of us are also getting very good at our group chants! In other news, we had our library orientation this week! We are loving the new remodel and we were so excited to pick out books to take home.
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