Tomorrow is a fun-filled, busy day for us. We have skating in the morning and gymnastics in the afternoon, plus a rehearsal for our upcoming performance!
Please ensure that your student comes dressed in his/her layers for gymnastics and remembers his/her skates & helmet.
I am waiting on quite a number of permission forms for the trip to ArtsFest. I'm sending extra forms and kids are wearing reminder bracelets home tonight. Please get these back to me ASAP and let me know if you have any questions about dress. The performance is next week!!!!
We have been working really hard this week to finish up projects we've been on for a while, our instructions for how to decorate a gingerbread man and the poems we are writing out from memory.
Here are a few pages from our book of rimes & poems...
To celebrate being done our instructions, we, of course, had to practice following them and actually decorate a gingerbread man. Students know that they need your permission to eat it, as it is a fairly large cookie! It is coming home in a cute little bag.
To prepare for this fun activity, we did a math challenge to practice dividing candies equally between friends. We figured out that we could deal the candies out, kind of like playing cards, to make sure everyone had the same number of everything.
When it came time to use real candies, the decorators took the time to divide everything in a fair way before beginning. It was nice to see them giving things away rather than collecting as much as humanly possible.
Words of the Week
This week we are back to the sound, ‘é’. In November, I mentioned that there were other ways to make this
sound. They are ‘-er’ and ‘-ez’, but only when they fall at the end
of a word, not within (even
at the end there are plenty of exceptions). This week you may want to play a sneaky game
of -er v. -re. It is not uncommon, at
this stage, to confuse the order of letters that form a sound, but ‘er’ and
‘re’ are two completely different sounds. Challenge your writer to find the
mistakes in the words you’ve written (end some words with ‘re’ instead of
‘er’)!
déjeuner, février, chez, aller, manger,
vous
avez, visiter
Bonus words: vous allez, jouer