Les aventures des jeunes

Countdown and upcoming events We have been busy in class with our unit on reindeer and caribou. This week we began to practice Christmas vocabulary and read a book about Hannukkah. We will talk more about Hannukkah early next week.  As part of our non-fiction writing, the children wrote a book about the decorations that they have at their homes at this time of year. The book was to have 4 decorations and at least 1 sentence completed. At the back of the books the children coloured faces to represent their self-evaluation. I have circle the face I feel is the most accurate with purple highlighter. Look for the books in the folders today.  I have copied the link to the December calendar. As a reminder we have our Santa Hat day tomorrow. Please check for other upcoming events as well as timings and costume for the concert on Thursday. December Calendar Being Healthy at this time of year We have lots of cold and flu at this time of year. As a class, we read a book a...

Reindeer and Caribou We have been learning about Caribou, who are also known as reindeer. We have been reading non-fiction books and learning where they live, as well as their body parts and characteristics. We learned an interesting scientific fact that the blood vessels in the nose can make their noses appear red! As part of sharing what we know, the children wrote as a scientists in their journals. They labelled the body parts of a reindeer then some students continued to write a sentence about what a reindeer has for example "A reindeer has hooves." Math Baskets Our morning math baskets are a variety of Christmas games. Most of them include rolling dice. We are working on recognizing the numbers on the dice at a glance as well as counting on. Counting on is when have 2 dice (5 and 4) you say one number such as 5 and keep counting from 5 saying 6, 7, 8, 9 to find the answer.  Building community We invited the grade 2 classes to come and spend time with us. Frida...