Leading Up to Thanksgiving

This week in Language we looked at the hard and soft "g" sounds in the comptines "La girafe" and "La grenouille". Our shared reading was the poem "Le cartable rêveur". We continue to practise our word wall words using various ways of chanting. This was the first week that we began doing Daily 5 Language Centres (les ateliers). There are five centres that they rotate through in small groups over a five day period. The centres are: Guided Reading with Mme, Read to Self, Read With a Partner, Listen to Reading, and Word Work, which is usually some type of word game or writing activity. When the students work well in a centre, they receive a checkmark on our Class Reward poster. Once they reach 25 checkmarks, they can pick from various rewards. Next week we will be beginning Math centres so they will be able to accumulate checkmarks even faster. In Writing, we did activities on "Les règles de la classe" and "J'aime ou je n'aime pas".

In Math, we continued working on representing numbers. We are focusing a lot on counting accurately and how to use a hundreds chart to help us. We were doing hundreds chart puzzles on the Smartboard where students have to figure out the missing numbers from a hundreds chart. We will begin a unit on graphing next week. 

In Social Studies, the students completed a map of the seven continents and labeled them. We also looked at three different religious or cultural celebrations, Ramadan/Eid, which occurred over the summer, Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur which took place at the end of September/beginning of October, and Thanksgiving. We looked at the reasons for celebrating and some traditions that families might have during those celebrations. 

Next week we will be welcoming Adrienne Carmichael to our class. She is a teaching candidate from Queen's University who will be doing a six week placement with me in the class.  

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with your families! 😃🍗🌽🍅