C'est vendredi! I hope that you and your family enjoy a restful weekend, as I am sure that the past few weeks have been tiring and a big adjustment for some.
Today began with literacy centres including: painting, "fishing" for letters of the alphabet with magnetic rods, a memory game, letter necklaces and bracelets, playdoh (of which we could already use some new, purchased or homemade! :)), and practice writing and drawing with markers on both chart paper and construction paper. I noticed that it took the students a little longer than usual to clean up the centre areas today, and they needed a few more reminders. Perhaps this is just symptomatic of the presence of new JKs who are still adjusting to the program. Overall, everyone still did very well, and we were ready for Mme Murray when she arrived to teach Health and Gym lessons.
During our Math block, we revisited "Regarde par la fenêtre." A great number of the students can now 'read' this text along with me, which is great! I think that we will have to start a new book of a similar format very soon. Following our weather report, we reviewed how to write the number 23 and practiced "air writing" this number. It was then added to the calendar along with "la pomme." We added a paper link to our chain, which is growing very quickly! Then, I modeled a basic graph based on eye colour, and had the students add a sticker to it in an appropriate place to represent their eye colour.
During Free-choice play time today, I observed a lot of art happening around the classroom. It seems like many kids felt like drawing, colouring, and practicing their writing by choice at that time. Again, there was a lot of dramatic play happening as well, and what I found particularly humourous was a group of girls who were playing school! :) They were pointing to the calendar and counting, and doing an excellent job at both directing and being part of their "pretend class." Fantastique!
L'ordinateur is always a popular choice during free activity time as well. I would really love to have about two more computers set up in the classroom, as technology is so important for kids to grasp in this day and age. I am going to look into possibly reserving the computer lab in the library to give the students some time to familiarize themselves with French games, etc. outside of the classroom. Perhaps they could even create a project using some simple software. If you have any great ideas for this, please let me know! I will continue to ponder!
I took a risk, today, and actually taught the kids how to use my digital camera. I reiterated the importance of "wearing the camera strap like a bracelet" to avoid dropping it, etc. and then I allowed them to take pictures of their friends at play (with their consent!). I haven't had a chance to go through these photos, but I am sure that they will be very interesting and show a bit of the world from a kid's perspective. :)
Bon-weekend!
Mlle Craig
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