Merci Beaucoup!

Wow. I am sure a lucky teacher. Not only was I blessed to teach your children but you all spoiled me on our last day together 💝 I did not get a chance to thank everyone at the end of the day yesterday but I do want everyone to know that I appreciate all the gifts I got. Between the chocolates, jewelry, flowers, Starbucks and Indigo gift cards, personalized cards and books, cd's, and of course, the very generous group gift, my summer is already off to a great start! Merci beaucoup. I hope everyone has a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you all in September.

(Temporary Backup) Robot workshop

*June 11, 2019 (failed upload)

This morning, UBC engineering and science students came to our class to give a workshop on robots. The students learned how to program the robot to move using a coloured marker and then use different coloured codes to make it go fast/spin/slow/etc. The students first made individual ones and then we worked together as a class to made a giant circuit. I took mostly videos but can’t seem to upload them onto the blog. Here a few simple pictures when we were getting started.

(Temporary Backup) Our Garden

*June 20, 2019 (failed upload)

This week we harvested some of our garden. We have so many things growing: carrots, kale, cucumbers, beets, lettuce, and peas. We did some watering and picked the lettuce, kale and beets that were ready. On Thursday, we made a salad and ate it together at snack time. We still have lots of kale that is ready to eat so please feel free to pick some and take it home. You can also come visit our garden over the summer and help yourself to whatever is ready.

Outdoor Treasure Hunt

We did an outdoor treasure hunt with our buddy class today. Each pair was given a sheet of paper with 15 objects to find outside. The students loved it! It would be a great activity to do this summer when you’re out for a walk :)

Le monde est a nous

Here is a link to a song we sing as a school during our assemblies. It is a bit fast for the kindergarteners but they love the song and can sing the chorus. It is a beautiful song about how love makes the world a better place.

Alex Nevsky - Le monde est a nous

OWL

We had our presentation from O.W.L. today. The presenter, Zac, brought in an American Kestrel named Johnny and a Southern Boobook owl named Cricket. The Southern Boobook Owl is native to Australia and was brought in from Smithers where is was someones pet who no longer wanted it. It was so neat to see an owl up close and the students were captivated! They learned so many facts about owls. We even dissected owl pellets and say mouse skeletons. Ask your child to share with you what they learned.




An eagles talons



Baby Owls' downy feathers



An eagles egg



An owl's wing



An eagles wing. Half the length of Zac!



American Kestrel named Johnny



Sourhern Boobook named Cricket







Touching an Osprey's talon.

sur le/sur la

In the students activity bags today, there is a book called 'sur'. This means 'on', as in on top of something. When reading the book with your child, you can:
-spell the word together, s-u-r spells sur
-focus on differentiating between 'le' and 'la' (this keeps their eyes on the words in stead of just guessing or memorizing)
-ask them to find certain letters on the page
-read 'sur la _____' and have them teach you the vocabulary word based on the picture (it is not expected that they know all the words, but they should be able to get at least half!).

Les Chrysalides

We have cocoons! This morning we made caterpillars out of egg cartons. The students called them their ´class pet’. We will do some writing and science activities with them next week. And in 14 days, we will have butterflies :)

La chenille qui fait des trous

We read ´La chenille qui fait des trous’ and are learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. Our caterpillars are getting big and should begin to cocoon in the next few days! 

´ou ´

This week, we are learning the sound ‘ou´. Ask your child to teach you the sound it makes. We are also learning some words that contain that sound. 

ou dit ooooo

ou dit ooooo

loup, loup

ooo, ooo, ooo

(Temporary Backup) Buddy reading

We do buddy reading with our big buddy class. Right now we are focusing on pointing to the words as we read. This helps emergent readers to keep their eyes on the print and helps them to sound out new words. 

Activity bags will not go home this week. It was a short week and an extra busy one for me so I did not get them done! 

Les chenilles

Division 9 is home to 20 caterpillars! As we learn about their life cycle, we will watch them turn into chrysalis' and then hatch into butterflies over the next four weeks. The yellow stuff in the containers is food. It is a mixture of vitamins, minerals, and plant matter on a soy base. They eat almost all of it and triple in size before they begin to cocoon in 10 days.

This morning, we made studied them and drew and wrote our observations based on what we saw.

une chenille = caterpillar

Crab Habitats

On our field trip last week, we learned all about crab habitats. Today, the students each made one for a crab they made out of plasticine. Ask your child to tell you all about it. 

´ch’

The last complex sound we learned was ´ch’. 

It makes the sound ´shh’ en francais. 

Ask your child to teach you the sound and the action. See if they can read some of the words that contain that sound. 

c h dit shhh

c h dit shhh

chuchote, chuchote

shhh, shhh, shhh

Leaning to play the xylophone

I haven’t been able to update the blog lately because my old phone was no longer compatible with the app. But I just upgraded so I can now post to the blog again!

In music class, the students are learning to play the xylophone :)