Well, it's been a wet one... Madame ended up stringing up a make-shift clothesline on Wednesday because we were so "trempés" (soaked). Obviously, Madame is out of practice for rainy days. Most of us actually had the appropriate gear (Merci, Maman et Papa!), but we quickly learned that unless we pull our rain pants OVER our boots, we will still end up with small lakes between our toes. And then those lakes end up on the floor. And then the rest of our clothes fall in the lakes on the floor. But, school is a place for learning lessons and by Thursday we were all masters. We've got this! The rain also didn't stop us from doing some outdoor Math. But thankfully the weather wasn't all bad this week. We did have some moments of sunshine where we were able to practice learning our colours and numbers outdoors with songs and games. Sometimes we even had some free time after we finished our work to go on bug hunts. Madame told us that we can keep the bugs for one day so that we can observe them, but that we had to let them go wild and free at dismissal. We have been focusing on one colour of the rainbow every day, using stories to reinforce what we've been learning. One of our stories this week was from the website "Je lis", which all of the parents have access to. (Check in the colourful flip books that were sent home for your unique username and password). We followed the step-by-step colour directions to create our own versions of the art from the book. We love playing with Play-Doh in class, which is an amazing way to work our little finger muscles to help with fine motor tasks (writing, doing up buttons, doing up zippers, etc.) We've also been practicing our cutting skills by chopping up leaves with our scissors, and our writing skills by taking time every day to practice writing our name and the letters we've been learning. In French, we've been learning our letter sounds with fun actions. We think it's HILARIOUS when Madame pronounces each of our names with the letter of the day. We do some colouring and some letter-writing practice to help reinforce each letter and the silly gestures that go with it. We also spent some time this week learning about Terry Fox. We talked about who he is and how he "persevered" (persévéré). Then we discussed some things that WE do that are hard, but that we keep doing anyway, just like Terry! Anything worth learning and doing is worth the hard work that it takes to get there. But one of our favourite parts of the day is "centre time" where we get to read and play with toys that build our STEM skills, our imagination, and our teamwork abilities.
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