Gearing Up For the Holidays

We're now into the third week of "ateliers" and they are going well. The students began to earn rewards this week as they reached 25 times that they worked well during centres. They were very excited to choose from the available rewards. Those who have not yet reached 25 are getting close. We will finish up this rotation of "ateliers" next week and then will start again after the break. I'm getting a little more organized and have made folders and bought boxes for all of their work during the centres. One side is for their reading activities and the other is for their writing activities. 

In language, the grade twos did the comptines "Maman" and "Les petits pois" reviewing the "an" and "oi" sounds. The grade threes read the story "Arthur visite Irma" with the "ir" and "ur" sounds. They aren't quite done all of the reading response activities but we will finish them up next week. 

A new activity from our writing "ateliers": secret messages

In math, we continued to work on measurement, both in guided groups with me, and in some of the activities at the math centres. All measurement activities should be complete by the end of next week. Hopefully we will be able to fit a short assessment into the middle of next week.

les ateliers de maths

We've been busy practising our song for next week's Holiday Concert. Our dress rehearsal is on Monday and we'll get to see what all of the other classes have prepared. On Tuesday, we will have a matinee performance but we will be working in our class until it's our turn to perform our song and flag dance. Immediately afterward, our class is going swimming. Wednesday will be a "Ketchup" day to finish up all unfinished work. Thursday we will be doing a holiday or winter craft in the morning. It will be an extremely busy week so hopefully the students will be well rested for all of our upcoming activities!