It was a Monday miracle! Our eggsperiment worked! When we showed up Monday morning, our egg shells were covered and stuck together with crystals. Each student took theirs home in a little cup to show you. We have already started another little experiment, hatching a little chick from an egg (thanks Dollarama).
Today was international Day of Pink! William knew the story about the origins of pink day, and told us about it. We had a couple short discussions about instances where we could have chosen nicer words about our friends' clothing, and about activities and colours that are often associated with either girls or boys, but that everyone should be able to enjoy freely. We all know what to do, we just need to do it!
We had a few special centres set up today. One was to decorate and cut out a t-shirt, celebrating Day of Pink. Many of them feature hearts or pictures of friends. Another activity was making shaving cream paintings. If you haven't tried this, you MUST. It's so cool! Basically, you just need shaving cream, acrylic paint and thick paper cut into whatever shape you want. We did flowers. Ask your artist what the steps are to create these amazing painted designs. I can't wait to put them up on our tree in the hallway!
A third special centre is Mme Diana's animal centre. As part of her internship, she must design and run a centre. I suggested working on animals, since we haven't learned much vocabulary in this area. Each day she will run a centre doing activities with farm animals. Students may choose to work here during their centre time. We will encourage everyone to try it out!
Outside, we are still making adorable little houses and communities (not encouraging home toys at school). We also had a group of campers building a fire pit as part of a grand plan to stay overnight at school. They had it all worked out!
I also have good news to share about our class. Today was a much better listening day. The last two days were not so hot. It seemed like a lot of us forgot to stop what they are doing and look up when being spoken to. We talked about it, and today we did a lot better. Let's keep it up!
Mots de la semaine
Here are some farm animals we are learning about this week.
There have been others on previous lists.
le canard
le cochon
un mouton
une oie (goose)
la vache