Last week we finished examining words with the 'ch' sound. We only have 2 more sounds to go, and I hope to do both this week so that we can focus on grade 1 verbs after the break. As always, please keep reviewing all previous sounds at home. It's amazing how far the kids have come, from learning basic vowel sounds (a, e, i) to being able to put all kinds of sounds together to read simple stories. Unfortunately, we can never know everything! The French language is full of exceptions to rules, and we're learning about them as they come up.
Following our attempt at measuring our heights using our hands, which led to some funny-looking measurements, we discussed other things we could use to measure that would be the same for everyone. Some ideas were for everyone to use a new eraser, one person's hands or a piece of paper. Eventually, we settled on using a ruler, because it's a tool made for measuring. We are not going to talk about centimetres this year, but we counted how many rulers went into everyone's height. Most of us were around 4 rulers tall. Our new graph makes much more sense!
Last week, we solved a math mystery. We wondered if our height would be equal to our "wingspan". At first, very few of us thought this could be true, but after using rulers to measure both distances, it turned out to be exactly true, except a few cases where our shoes made us taller. It would be great if the kids could check this on an adult at home!
In math, we worked in teams to put pieces of string in order from shortest to longest. (This would be a fun game to play at home too.) We also worked in teams in science to make a machine that moves using our bodies. Here are the pictures with the answers!
Rocket Ship
Teeter-totter
Bicycle
Motorcycle
Our artists completed their workshops with Donnely by finishing off their wooden sculptures with wire and beads. They have insisted that I post no pictures of their sculptures at this time, but we are talking about putting them in the Dewson art show next month. For now, they can be seen on top of our cubbies.
