E might win as the most complicated letter of the French
alphabet. It can make so many different sounds depending on the accent or
letters around it. In this case, when followed by ‘s’, it makes a more relaxed sound, as in “best”. Your
student has probably already learned these words, but it might be a good time
to go back to playing with moveable letters to play with different
combinations.
des, les, mes, tes, c'est
Bonus words: il est, ses
We've had a lot going on recently in our class!
First of all, we are getting ready to start working at language centres. We will have 5 centres (partner reading, listening to reading, word work, writing work and meet with Mlle) that students will work at approximately once a week with their Club de Lecture. Every time that we do language centres, we will rotate so that each Club de Lecture gets time at each centre. On non-centre days we will continue with our established independent reading routine, during which time a Club may meet with me, and we may set up an additional calendar so that our listening stations are occupied every day. So far we have been introduced to the activities that happen at the "Jeux de dictée" centre and the "Centre d'écriture. Ask your students what activities they've practiced for future centre work!
In Science, we started working on a big construction project to show the four seasons in 3-D! Each group is working together to divide the seasons between them, put the seasons in the correct order and select materials to build each season. I saw some great teamwork today, and our math coach stopped by in the middle of our construction process and was very impressed with the scientists' creativity!
In math news, the children may have mentioned that I'm involved in a math course right now and as part of this, I'm taking an in-depth look at how math centres contribute to our learning. Yesterday we rotated through a series of patterning centres, some of which were tricky as the concepts had not been formally introduced. I was impressed with the problem-solving and teamwork I observed. It was fun to see the mathematicians making discoveries on their own or with the help of their teams. In particular, ask about the centre with the tree that starts out with 1 leaf, then 3, then 5 leaves. How many leaves did your mathematician predict the tree would have on the fourth day? Why? This was an introduction to growing patterns that we will continue to investigate this week.
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Tamara