We are beginning to learn our colors in French. We learned a few songs about the colors red (rouge) and green (vert). We are learning the days of the week and are getting pretty good at counting together in French. We also learned a song about the months of the year. It will take us a little time to get good at that one but it is fun to dance to. We started counting the days of school and on the 100th day of school we will have a celebration. We started our partner routines this week. Each day the smart board picks a new partner for us. This is the person we sit next to at the carpet and we talk to when Mme Hawtree asks us to share ideas with each other. We have a new partner everyday. It is a great way to make new friends. Even if we are paired up with someone we don't what to be paired up with it is okay because we know it is only for one day. We learned about whole body listening this week. We learned that when we listen we should listen with our eyes, ears, mouth, body, hands, brain and heart. Its sometimes hard to listen with our whole body but with practice we will get better and better at it. We practiced listening to our partners and really hearing what they were saying to us. We are learning about our kindergarten jobs and responsibilities. We agree that is important for all of us to try new things and to do our best. Next week we will look at creating some class rules together. We went to the Terry Fox assembly and for a Terry Fox walk too. We talked about how Terry wanted to help kids who were sick get better. We also talked about the fact that Terry's dream was a pretty big one and that even though it was really hard to accomplish he kept working towards making it happen. We talked about what some of our dreams were. Some of us wanted to be pilots, artists or learn to ride a bicycle, others wanted to be a mom, jump out of a plane or climb a high mountain. One of us even wanted to be Prime Minister someday. We talked about how we would have to work hard to reach our dreams. We started to learn our French letters this week too. We know 2 letters. F and E. We learned the sound the letter makes and a word for each letter too. F (fleur- flower, froid - cold) E (je - me or éléphant). We also learned that when we write letters the kindergarten way we start our letters at the top and write down. We practice writing capital F and E. | |
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