This week we reviewed the "euse" sound and spelling in "La berceuse". The poem "Joie du printemps" was our other shared reading.
We looked at two reading strategies to improve reading fluency: adjusting speed when reading difficult text and using punctuation to make reading more fluid.
Our read aloud this week was "Les 4 saisons". It was a story about a girl's life throughout four seasons in China.
In guided reading, most groups are working on comprehension of informational text. In guided writing, most groups have started activities on writing short narratives.
In math, the students are working on the unit on multiplication and division. The grade twos are looking at multiplication as repeated addition and division as sharing equally. In addition to those two concepts, the grade threes need to know their multiplication tables to 7 x 7 and division to 49 ÷ 7.
Last week in social studies, the entire class did activities for Earth Day. Last Friday we went outside at the end of the day to help with the school yard cleanup.
This week the grade twos are completing activities on South America, and learning about communities in Brazil in particular.
The grade threes are learning about how pioneers established colonies in North America. We have discussed why they set up communities together and how they helped one another, and were helped by First Nations people who were living here.
On Wednesday, the grade twos attended a presentation on Fire Safety by the Amherstview Fire Department. Most of the grade threes were at the Bayridge Road Race at that time.
On Friday, we went to see the play "La chasse galerie". It is based on a French Canadian Legend from the Ottawa Valley area. In the winter, farmers left their homes and went north to become woodcutters for 5 months to earn money for their families. In the play, the devil tries to tempt the woodcutters by offering them the chance to return to see their families on Christmas Eve in a flying canoe.
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