In French, we are going to be working through the writing process to write our own stories. We began today by decomposing some of our favourite stories (e.g., Tipingee, Le lit de grand-mère, Les trois boucs) using a graphic organizer. We had to think about who the characters are, where they live, and the most basic plot elements at the beginning, middle and end. We will use the same graphic organizer later to plan our own original stories. If you like, you can already begin helping your author brainstorm ideas!
In Math we have moved on to geometry. This time, we're focusing on 3-D shapes! So far we have played a guessing game to find the correct name for several shapes and then we worked with our math partners to make posters explaining the characteristics of each. We will continue this week by further investigating the sides of 3-D shapes and then building our own!
In Science we are onto our last unit on the needs and characteristics of living things. There is a ton of overlap here between this and our first unit on seasonal changes and also on the energy unit we just completed. We will build on this and also get ready for our day at the ROM next week. We began by simply classifying various objects as vivant ou non-vivant (living or not). It wasn't as straight forward as you might think since some items are made from things that used to be living, and we're not too sure about plants yet... To be discussed. :)
Before Mlle Bradfield left us, she began one last art project involving texture with us. We began by filling two pages with texture rubbings using lots of interesting every day materials (e.g., keys, mesh, wire fencing, containers, stencils...). Next, we used these pages to cut out the pieces for a collage - we all made animals! Then, we went in and added a few more scenery details with chalk, which shows up nicely on the black paper. Finally, we each wrote a little blurb about what we created. Here we are at work:
Words of the Week
In our review of the ‘é’
sound, we have more examples of masculine and feminine. Many adjectives,
including those that end in é,
become feminine with the addition of a plain e. If you’re talking about a girl, the e in brackets is for you. If you’re talking about a boy, leave if
off. Remember, it doesn’t matter what you
are, it’s who (or what) you’re talking about that counts.
épaules, vélo, égal, été, cinéma, fée,
je
décore, j’écris, fâché(e), fatigué(e)
Bonus sentence: Je suis allé(e)...