Break Time!

I have to admit that I'm ready for a break, and for all of the snow to go! It's been such a busy week. In Language, we read the poem "À l'aube du printemps" for our shared reading. It was a good poem for practising some of the more difficult sounds in French. We reviewed the different spellings for "o" in "Au trot, au galop!" and "eu" in "À la queue leu leu!" We've finished up another cycle of reading centres and will start fresh after the break. We are still looking at punctuation in the writing centres. We will probably need one more cycle to finish this up and then we will also do a new assessment of which spelling patterns have been mastered. 

We had some fun new activities in our math centres. The students really enjoyed "Zap" and the "greater than/equal/less than" games. We are almost finished our unit on two-digit addition and subtraction and will move on but will continue to practise these skills regularly. 

In Social Studies, we learned about the reason that St. Patrick's Day is celebrated and completed some activities on that. We also tried class-to-class Skyping today with Mme Deloughery's class after working through some technical difficulties this morning. Each group shared a comptine with her class and her students shared the musical instruments that they made with us. I'm hoping to try Skyping a class in another province or country to learn about a different community, so this was great practice. 

There was so much going on this week that the kids were pretty wound up by today. Monday was Backward Day. Tuesday, we had School Clothing/Colours Day as well as our last skating trip. Wednesday was Retro Day. Yesterday, we got to enjoy the Talent Show with a fun body break that had the whole school dancing right in the middle. Today was Twin Day and we kicked off March Break with a dance this afternoon. 

I'm sure the students will enjoy this much-deserved a break and I look forward to seeing them all back on the 23rd, refreshed and ready to get back to it. 

HAVE A GREAT MARCH BREAK!