This morning, we revisited the literacy centres that were mentioned yesterday (since only the students in FKE had experienced them). The kids enjoyed the shaving-cream-tinted with food colouring sensory table, and many of them practiced finger-writing la lettre "Aa." They crafted les araignées and honed their printing skills at the craft centre, and again, drew some fantastic c'est l'automne pictures with accompanying text, in addition to "writing the room."
Mme Murray arrived to a fairly well-cleaned-up classroom, and the children received some pompoms for their efforts in this regard before heading off to le gymnase. Nutritional Break #1 went quite smoothly, and the class went outside to play during the first recess of the day.
Afterwards, we learned all about la lettre Aa, through a game of French/English charades that allowed children to draw pictures and make connections to newly acquired vocabulary. The class then "fancied up" the 'Aa' readers. We read them together and most of them have managed to bring them home to read with their families tonight.
Again, due to our presence in la bibliothèque, we did not have a chance to begin our sorting unit in math today. We will try this again on Thursday, and the students will (hopefully!) begin working on le numéro un in their new number books.
I am leaving now, as I am still at the school and darkness has fallen!!! :) It's a great place, though and I'm so happy to be here teaching such a wonderful group of kids. You should be very proud of all of them!
Mlle Craig
Thank you so much for your dedicated time to the children (and to reporting their activities here!). It's fantastic to be able to read up on what they've been doing, and to be able to spark some more conversations at home!
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