Les aventures des jeunes

Spider studies, healthy eating and Halloween. We have been learning about spiders throughout the month as you saw in the project that came home. We have also started discussing the various food groups and which foods in our lunches come from each food group.  For the next week or so we will be building our halloween vocabulary. We will draw a haunted house and write about it. We will also create a monster and talk about them with our classmates.  In the next several weeks we will be learning about the forest as well as the beginning, middle and end of stories. Math- How numbers relate This is a game we have been playing to reinforce the relationship of numbers. In this version of the game, the students are practicing how number relate to 5. For example 8 is 3 more than 5 and 4 is 1 less than 5. This concept is important for easy adding and subtracting, as it supports us to do mental math. If I know that 8 is 3 more than 5 and I am trying to add 37 + 8. I can div...

Colours  We have just finished a unit on colour. You may have seen the booklet that came home with colour names in French and Hul'q'umi'num'. The goal of this unit was to reinforce French colour vocabulary and to help the students access speaking French in an easy way. We started by reading  "Pat le chat- J'adore mes souliers blancs" followed by "Rebellion chez les crayons".  After we read the book about the crayons rebelling, we did a vertical drawing activity. In the hallway, I had taped up coloured construction paper. The students got a chance to go to each paper and draw something that is the same colour as the paper. After they finished drawing, we took the papers back into class and the students practiced speaking French by saying either "Je vois..." (I see...) or "J'ai dessiné..." (I drew...)  We explored primary and secondary colours using play dough. I made play dough in blue, red and yello...