Dance Party!!

We had SO much fun at the dance-a-thon this afternoon. Thank you so much for all your donations and fundraising efforts. As a class, we raised over $850!!

Today, we also did a great activity led by Mme Diana. She read us a story about an octopus, and later we got to contribute to a group painting of an aquarium.

Mots de la Semaine

l’océan

un poisson

la pieuvre (octopus)

une baleine (whale)

nager (to swim)

Yesterday, we worked together to write another letter to August. We thanked him for his letter, and told him about our crystal growing experiment (still in progress). A few other students chose to write August a personal letter during their centre time. I mailed everything off after school!

We tried something new this afternoon during storytime. Since I wasn't done meeting with reading groups, and we had already listened to a story earlier with Mme Diana, we tried a grade 1 task: read to self. We did a good finding a book and a quiet place to look at it on our own during storytime.

Outside, the kids have been really getting into digging. They have dug some massive holes in the garden area near the front of the school, and also in the sandpit. I'm looking forward to doing some planting with them soon! Yesterday, I observed a few kids building little tree houses. Very cute!