Word families and the word J'aime

We had a great Tuesday with Ms.  Mallmo! We read the book  "The Line" by Paula Bossio. It is a very interesting book because it has no words.  We made predictions to see what might be at the end of the line in the book.  

Here are some of our predictions...

Her house - E.S

A robot - Duncan R (SK)

A T-Rex -  Colton

A block man - C.C

The author - A.B

We also talked about all the different kinds of lines and what we could use them to represent.

* Straight lines 
           - To make roads, walls, houses

* Squiggly lines.  
          - To make fingers, thumbs, sand castles, ocean waves

* Loopy lines
           - To make dinosaurs, e's, balloons, snake, hair, vines, slide,                   roller coasters

* Curved lines
           - To make piles of snow or sand, a head, bread, a chin, road,               a slide, a ball, a bubble

* Zig zag lines
            - To make hills, claws, W, hair, teeth, "z"

* Dotted lines
            - To make roads, hair

We made some tape art.  The children put down tape and then painted over top of it... once the painting was dry we peeled the tape off and made these beautiful creations :)

 We encouraged the children to write their initials, or numbers.  They had free choice to create whatever they wanted. 

A.T decided to make a snowflake :)  In this picture she is pulling the tape off. 

C.C is hanging up her beautiful piece of art!! 

In the afternoon we also talked about various word families. "et", "op", "at", "am", "un" and "od".

A.T was making words in the "at" word family

S.O was making words in the "in" and "am" family :)

We also played with a huge geo board and a few boys made a marble maze  

F.C enjoyed playing with our uppercase and lowercase roads 

H.M was being very creative at the playdough center. 

We also made some plans our of Popsicle sticks and clothes pins and B.M made an airport for them :)

It warmed up in the afternoon for us to be able to go play outside :)

All in all we had a great Tuesday

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We had another great Wednesday with Mme. Cayci :)  This morning we talked more about the word "j'aime" and "je n'aime pas". We are getting so good at our French words.  We are so very proud. 

We also had some special visitors this morning for our schools district review.  They were in our room observing for about 5-10 minutes while we were at the carpet this morning. 

M.H was practicing matching his colours in French! 

E.S used our colour wall to write les couleurs en Francais :)  She then went around the room looking for objects that matched the colours. 

He also was fishing for les couleurs.  We learned a few new ones, Noir et Blanc

C.C found all the letters in his name!!

S.H made a parking lot for his voitures

F.C did such a great job counting all the dots on the dominoes and put them in the right parking spot.  He was also counting in French :)

R.D told us that 3 + 3 = 6!!! 

S.O wrote out the words
"Sha for Chat" (cat)  and  "Shey for Chien" in French on our chalk board.  We are so proud that she sounded out the words  :) 

E.S made a beautiful Chateau!  Our castle inquiry has lasted a long time, we love it :)

F.C and S.H made a racetrack for their cars! 

R.D decided to make a Canada flag for when we sing O'Canada in the morning.  Now we will have a flag to look up at :)   So very thoughtful!! 

We also talked about the story la tortue et le lapin. The children have learned some body actions and movements for the words tortue, lapin, marche, dormi, and courir.

We were also lucky enough to go outside in the afternoon for end of the day recess!

We had a wonderful Wednesday :)
See you tomorrow!!

Monday :)

Here are some pictures from last week that didn't make it on our website last week due to illness.

On Thursday we did an experiment on colour mixing

Here are some of our predictions of what colour the two or three ice cubes will make

The children's names are written in the colour that they predicted our new colours were going to make

We displayed them by our window so that the ice cubes would melt faster

 It was very exciting watching the new colours appear

We also did some snowman art also.  We mixed shaving cream with glue and it makes a very cool puffy paint

We also practiced counting and matching the 3 ways we can represent numbers

Great work!!!

 A.D was very proud to show the class what she created.  It's truly amazing what we can do!!!

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We had a great Lundi avec Mme. Cayci today!!!   We were so happy to finally be able to go outside for recess again :) Although it was very very windy. 

This is what we got up too today ... 

Once again we had a great day creating various objects and shields. We love all the creativity in our classroom :)

We also switched around our Castle area a little bit today.  We moved and fixed our castles tunnel. 

S.S and A.B counted vingt-deux (22) jaune tiles!!!

 We did some great writing today!

A few friends wrote out some French Castle vocabulary 

E.S wrote our her and A.L names and drew a picture to go with it :)

R.K made a beautiful picture using the colour "Rouge"

B.M and E.L made a maison for their dinosaurs :)

We had fun with our connector straws again today :)  We love to create amazing structures

Have a great night and see you tomorrow!!

Week of January 20th

We have had such a great week so far!  
Sorry for the delay in posting this week. We are having computer difficulties :(

This is what we have gotten up too the past few days.... 

Matching letters to the names of our friends

R.D made a rugby stadium! 

R.K was colouring inside a box. He felt that he needed to sit on the ground to explore his creative energy  :)

L.M and C.C made this kitty a beautiful outfit  :)   They also made a nice chair for L.M's kitty to sit in. 

T.C filling in the missing alphabet

Some friends decided to make an awesome tower! 

B.M, T.H, E.D and E.T made a car stadium :)

S.S was practicing writing the names of her classmates :)   Great work. 

C.C, L.M, A.B, E.S and S.O painted a beautiful mural on a piece of cardboard!  We love our new classroom artwork :)

R.D made these two pieces of art. 

E.T was practicing how to write words in the "at" word family 

C.S was practicing his letters

We really enjoyed playing with the new roads that were made for the class. 

R.D and S.B were enjoying fishing for colours.  We were even practicing our colours in French :)

We also enjoyed matching our numbers

S.B writing out the colours Blue and Green in French

S.S was putting together the alphabet

C.C and E.S were putting the right amount of beads on each pipe cleaner

S.O was making a page full of patterns  :)   Great work! 

We have had a great week so far!!! 

**  Just a reminder that toys from home should not come to school unless they are for quiet time. We do not want them to become lost or broken.

See you tomorrow  :)