Rhyme Time

We started looking at some seasonal poems this week for our shared readings. We spent quite a bit of time discussing rhyming words in poems and looked for examples in the poems as well as around the classroom. Today we used a new song that the students will sing with Mme Judd next week in Music as a shared reading since it's a song about rhymes. The grade twos did the comptines "Au trot, au galop!" and "À la queue leu leu!" which reviewed the different spellings for the "o" and "eu" sounds. We also looked at rhymes within the comptines and searched through previous comptines for words that rhymed with the "eu" sound. The grade threes continued to work on the story "Mathilde et le mystère des feux follets". There were some new games in the Reading and Writing Ateliers, a rhyming word puzzle for reading and a version of Boggle to practise writing words. 

In math, we continued to learn about geometric shapes and solids, as well as symmetry. The students are completing activities that require them to identify the different 2-d shapes and 3-d solids as well as learn and compare their geometric characteristics, such as number of faces, edges (arêtes), and vertices (sommets). The grade threes have also been looking at types of edges: vertical, horizontal, or diagonal (obliques). In the math ateliers, there are games that require them to match the names of shapes/solids with their image as well as matching attributes to names. 

We did many other things this week but as I'm rather tired, I'll save some of the other stuff for my next post. Goodnight and have a great weekend! 🌝