Our First Week
Friendship and Community Building The class and I have been busy getting to know each other and learning the routines in class. As I meet the students at the door, I ask them how they are feeling today with the aid of a poster on the door. They are pointing to the poster and also repeating the French vocabulary. Some are even using full sentences. We are also building French vocabulary for body parts as we sing the song "Un petit pouce qui marche". In gym this week, we were playing games that involved colours and following directions that include a colour word and playing a tag based colour game. We have been enjoying many read aloud books about school and friendship. On Friday we read the story Stick and Stone. This is a wonderful book that shares the story of an unlikely friendship between a stick and a stone. After we read the story the students were asked to work in groups to create an area where a stick and a stone could play together. Working together, sh