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December events calendar

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December is such a busy month for everyone with so many things to remember. I have put together a calendar with upcoming events as they pertain to the class. I will send home a paper copy in the agendas this week as well. We have several special days planned starting with this coming Friday. In celebration of our story telling unit, the children have an opportunity to dress up as their favourite story character. We will watch Hoodwinked  in the afternoons on both Thursday and Friday. As you will see on the calendar I have set aside a day for the children to where their Santa hats and other special head gear. I try to keep it to one day when we all wear Santa hats to help keep the excitement down in the class. Thanks for your support in this endeavour. December Calendar

Le petit chaperon rouge

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Le petit chaperon rouge We have been reading "Little Red Riding Hood" stories in class. It is a familiar story which helps the kids to build their French vocabulary by listening to a familiar story. They link the new words they hear to what they already know in the story which lends itself to greater understanding.  We have read different versions of the story from the library here at school. You may see some of those versions come home tonight in the book bags. Also coming home tonight is a version of the story that most of the children can read. I hope you enjoy listening as your child shares the story.  The story maps The children had a chance to write their own story about the forest or a version of "Little Red Riding Hood" using the vocabulary up in the classroom. We also made story maps of the story and they retold the story to a partner using the maps.  They are experimenting with logic and coding. They are using a board set up as the forest,

Storytelling and Patterns

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Math- Patterns Our selection of Loose parts for sorting and patterning Our chart of sorting rules This week we started by practicing sorting assorted objects in the class. We then brainstormed all the ways to sort objects. We discovered that we can sort by colour, length, weight, by shape, by using our 5 senses and by how many. We recorded our ideas on a chart in the class. We will explore these ideas further as we begin to get more creative making patterns.  Our ideas for "What makes a pattern?" The next step was to figure out "What is a pattern?". At first as an answer to this question, the students just listed a lot of different patterns. We wrote them down, talked about them and made corrections to a few. But the patterns that we had up on the chart paper did not answer the question. After lots of partner talking and building on everyone's ideas, we came to the conclusion that all patterns include a core part that repeats. In French we

Fall and Halloween

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Halloween We had a wonderful week together. For our Halloween celebrations we drew a haunted house. We added several Halloween characters as well as fall things that we have been practicing as French vocabulary. The kids then wrote about the picture they drew. On Monday we made trees out of paper bags. The children used what we have been learning about fall to add leaves to the trees. On Tuesday for Halloween, we brainstormed a list of Halloween words. The children used plasticine, felt and pipe cleaners to make their paper tree haunted. They had a lot of fun with this activity.  Tuesday afternoon, we changed into our costumes and the children drew a picture of themselves in their costume. Then we went to the gym for the Halloween parade. It was a fabulous celebration! Fall The class as a whole really enjoys writing stories and has a good stamina for drawing and writing. So in the next week we are going to spend time talking about what makes a good story. We will d