First of all, a big thank you to the parents who got a little wet with us today. It was worth walking over to the library in the drizzle to hear some funny takes on fairy tales, watch a puppet show, and watch some of our own students act out Goldilocks and the Three Bears!
Our next trip is Friday the 24th, to High Park. Forms were due last Friday and I am still missing quite a number. Please send back the form ASAP, even if you have not yet been able to pay online. I need to know our numbers and confirm our volunteers. Thanks!
This Thursday is Walk & Roll to school day. A big group will be meeting at Dufferin Grove park at 8am and then walking/riding to school together around 8:30. Hope you can be a part of this!
Scholastic orders for May are also due Thursday. I encourage everyone to look at the May and June catalogues and think about whether there is anything that may be useful for summer French reading practice. Many of us are starting to sound out, recognize high frequency words and even read in French. This is very exciting, and beyond what we were aiming for this year. I would hate to see us lose speed over the summer. Here are a few items from May Club de Lecture that I would recommend:
- 20F9 "Collection Je lis! Animaux" - these are a great deal at $1/book and it's the right level.
- 21F9 "Mes petits livres - Série 6" - also $1/book
- 16F9 "Trio famille" - these books are a little more substantial, but still very affordable and have lots of words that we will know.
- 30F9 "Moi, le soleil" - likely not a book that we can read on our own, but it appears to touch on some of the inquiry questions our class had.
Happy belated Mother's Day to all our moms, grandmas, and others that are like moms to us! I hope you loved your little gift. We worked hard over the week to paint our pots, write out our poem and put it all together. Of course, we have been caring for our sunflowers at school for about a month, and they are now ready for a bigger pot, so I hope that is something you can do at home. We appreciate you!
Last week, my mom, Madame Mitchell, visited again, and brought over a special visitor - my dog Sadie!! I tell the class about her ALL the time, so they feel that they know her and were SO excited to meet her! She's not sure what children are (aliens??) so she's not looking too enthusiastic, but she was very sweet and let everyone give her a little pet if they wanted.
This week, Mme Diamond is with us Monday-Wednesday. She has long completed her placement hours, but has chosen to continue volunteering with us for the rest of the year which is great for us, and for her. This week, Mme Diamond will be the lead teacher. It is great practice for her to manage the transitions, plan the day and do all the behaviour support, which is often the hardest part of teaching. Today, she planned an excellent activity around 3-D geometry: building shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. All students successfully built one or more of the shapes presented. We will continue to work on 3-D shapes this week, and we aim to learn the difference between a cube, prisme and pyramide. Ask tomorrow what the difference is!
Here are some 3D shape words to work on:
Un cube
Un cylindre
Une sphère
Un prisme
Une pyramide
This group is playing house - see the different bedrooms?
This group built a bouncy castle, and everyone got a turn.
Some of us played bean bag toss and added up our score.
Some of us had such fun playing golf. I'm no expert, but I think we have a driver, a chipper thing and a putter. I was the caddie and we learned how to use each club semi-properly!
