It feels like we have special events every other day now - it might seem like we're done with our curricular work for the year, but we're not! In fact, we still have quite a bit to do and we will keep plugging away until the very last week! No resting!!
In math, we finished up our work in geometry with a game to help practice terms related to location (devant, derrière, à droite, à gauche). In this memory game, students have to describe every step they take and discover the one correct path to get across the minefield. It was really fun! Try it at home!
In language, we have all finished our stories and are trying to find the time to read them to each other. Now that we are experts on how stories are put together, we worked on taking one apart by working on an in-class book report. Students listened to a story and then wrote a short summary of the beginning, middle and end, as well as describing the main character and what the book reminded them of. They rated the story by giving it between 0 and 5 étoiles! Ask your book reviewer about what happens in Le dragon de Mimi - is it worth reading?
We will complete one more substantial writing project related to our last science unit. We don't have tons of time left to spend on it, unfortunately, but it will be all about living things. It's closely related to the unit on seasonal changes that we began the year with. We'll get to talk about plants and animals (including humans) and what they need in order to survive. With a partner, students will select an animal and write a report about it using books to find information.
We finished up our write-ups on our places in the community and we had a great discussion about natural v. man-made areas and what we can do to help preserve the natural areas. Our large map of College Street is up and looks really cool. Check it out when you come to our open-house! We are still going to do a little work around mapping next week. We will be focusing on how symbols are used in maps to represent places (we've seen this in books).
Of course, in the Arts areas we have been very busy, not only with our Van Gogh project and other visual arts projects related to our concert, but also with extra music and drama rehearsals outside of what we're doing with Mr. Greene and Mr. Lee. Hopefully we can pull ourselves together by the time the 19th rolls around. We still have quite a bit of polishing to do! Wish us luck!
Finally, now that it's June, we are no longer able to sign-out library books. Please do a final sweep of the house and send in any books you still have. I anticipate we'll be getting little notes from Mme Gaudreault letting us know if we have overdue books to return. We will continue with our class's borrow-a-book routine until the last week of school, but please try to get all classroom books returned by Monday, June 22nd so that we can make sure everything is accounted for.
Don't forget tomorrow, Friday, is a PA day for students. Have a great long weekend!
Tamara
(PS - Still hoping for a couple more volunteers for next Friday, particularly in the afternoon, as well as items for the music gift basket - thanks!)