Bonjour Chers Parents,

February has been a very busy, productive month.  Here is a glimps of what we have been doing in the last four weeks.


While talking about winter activities, the children where showing a lot of interest in ice fishing.  I thought we could do a small science project about ice and salt.  We used ice, salt, water and  strings.  I ask the chidren to put their string on the ice, add salt and see what would happen.  They observed that the ice was sticking to the string.  I have to say that a simple experiment like this one brought some very interesting questions.  Try it at home.

Je peche de la glace.

      

After completing the experiment, we did a painting using a printing technique.  They needed to trace and cut a circle (this represented the hole in the ice).  We made three horizontal lines from light blue to dark on a plastic placemate (this represented the water).  And asked them to place their circle on the painting so that the paint would print on the cardboard.  The last step was to trace and cut fish and clue it on their work.  Here is the final results:




On are way back from the Family weekend, we started are week by celebrating the 100 days of school!  We had our Grade two buddies visiting us and engage in various activities involving counting to 100.

I play a dice game.

I trace my hand and count in bounce of 5.

I can build with 100 blocks.

My tower is tall.

To celebrate the 100th day of school in Mme Brittany’s class, students were encouraged to bring items from home which would equal to one hundred. Currently, the children are working on their creations. This group of students really love to build structures during centre time and this interest is evident in their level of engagement in making something of their choice with their items. Some students are working by themselves and others are working with a partner. It will be very interesting to see the end result! 

During French week, students were very interested to learn more about the Francophone countries we represented. In Mme Corine’s class, students represented the flag of France and in Mme Brittany’s class, students created a flag of Morocco using (purposefully) limited materials. They were very resourceful in making the flag as part of a team effort! 

This month, we have learned the letters “f” and “b”. In the next few weeks, we will learn “j”, “é”, and “ou”.  We are continuing working with rhymes through songs and our French vocabulary.  We are also beginning to connect the sounds of syllables(decoding) so we can begin reading small words.

Thank you for reading!

The children creating music.

Playing in a cooerating relay with skies.

A visit from Bonhomme Carnaval.

A performance from a French Folk group.