We are pretty much becoming superstars in our daily routines these days. ...So much so that Mme Van Sickle threw a new routine at the Grade 1s this week - Wall Math! (Mur de maths). When the Kindergarten students arrive in the morning and begin to play, it's chop-chop! for the Grade 1s...get those brain juices flowing! It's a great chance for us to practice our basic numeracy skills on almost a daily basis. We are even able to get a lot of one-on-one teacher attention since we are a small group, so Mme is able to challenge us individually with more difficult concepts when we're ready. And as soon as we complete our work, we get to join the Ks for a few minutes of play so we are getting better at coming in and getting straight to work! We had some fun in Science this week as we continue to learn about our colours in French. We put primary colours in just three mason jars and then linked them all with paper towels. As a class, we made a hypothesis that the colours would mix together and we came back to school the next day to find that we were right! The colours had crawled from one jar to another, creating secondary colours! We recorded our observations and the Grade 1s wrote about the results, as well. Having the jars on the table has given us a great visual all week for when we sing our arc-en-ciel song. We had a very special treat this week, as well, with an elder from the Katzie reserve coming to visit our class. Mme Van Sickle helped to make a class set of First Nations drums last year so the community wanted to come visit our class to teach some Katzie drumming and dancing lessons. We learned that the drums are made from real white-tailed dear and that we need to respect the animals by respecting the drums. Some of the Katzie children who attend our school, along with one from PMSS, came to help out with the lessons. We had so much fun drumming along and the Katzie kids and the elder told us that we had the best energy of any of the groups they've done this with. We were more than happy to get up and dance when they invited us to do so! We even got to drum along to a special First Nations "Happy Birthday" song for Vesper who had a birthday recently.
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