Today the students walked into the classroom to discover their faces on "le pommier" as promised. Some of the students still have not painted "une pomme" or have their picture taken, so we will try to finish those two steps at some point later in the week if they haven't seen themself on the wall yet!
Literacy centres this morning included: sequencing puzzles, "pomme"-related literacy worksheets, magnetic letters on cookie sheets for letter and word practice and playdoh with letter stampers. Many of the students finished at the tables relatively quickly and expressed an interest in drawing on "the big paper." I doled out chart paper and let them exercise their creativity! The results are quite impressive and I will hang them up in our coat room to give it a little more colour. The class cleaned up very well and everyone was ready for music with Mme. Bennett. We are learning the song "Alouette" and experimenting with different percussion instruments to keep time to the song. Fantastique!There was also a Tornado drill this morning, and I am happy to report that all of the students behaved very appropriately during this time and that they followed directions well.
During our Math block, we briefly discussed the concept of tallying information. I had the students vote on a name for our class pet fish. So far, "Goldie" is in the lead with 6 votes... interesting name for a fish that is clearly blue and red in colour! ;) We also talked about estimating, and finally counted all of the gummy bears in the guessing jar from our Open House. There were a grand total of 122 gummy bears! Congratulations to Austin and family for his very close estimate of 120. :) Your prize was left in the classroom, but it will return home. Since estimation and problem-solving are part of the curricular expectations for this year, I am going to start sending home an "estimation jar" to every student throughout the rest of the year. When it is your child's turn with the jar, please fill it with some small objects (all the same) that we can estimate and count together! :) I will send more information about this home with the October newsletter.
Since autumn is fast approaching, I have decided to subtly introduce a mini-theme of "les pommes." Today we sang a simple song that I wrote about "Les pommes" to the tune of "Three Blind Mice" - I will include the lyrics at the end of this posting - and we read a book entitled "La pomme," which we found to be full of fascinating information about how apples are formed, and many different projects that we can complete using apples. I think that the kids are quite interested in trying some of these activities, and I am probably more excited than they are!!! :D
Mlle Craig
LYRICS TO "POMME" SONG
Rouge, jaune, verte
Rouge, jaune, verte
J'aime les pommes!
J'aime les pommes!
Elles sont bonnes pour la santé
Yuppi! Yuppi! Yuppi! YAY!
Les trois couleurs que j'avais chanté(e) sont
Rouge, jaune verte!
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