Letter of the week

This week, we are learning all about the letter 'n'. Ask your child to teach you the action and the sound it makes. We practiced writing the lower case 'n' without taking our pencil off the paper. This was tricky for a lot of students!

Different kinds of touch

We talk every day about personal space and different kinds of touch. When you have time, sit down with your child and ask them to explain each one to you. Ask them questions like "who gives these kinds of touch?" "what should you do if this happens to you?" "is this a good touch or a bad touch?" "how does this make a person feel?" Below are the pictures I use in class.

Loving Touch 

Friendly Touch 

Fix It Touch

Space Invader

Accidental Touch

Hurtful Touch

Problem Touch

Alphabet Centres

This week, we began our literacy centres (we call them alphabet centres - 'les centres d'alphabet'). There are five stations and the students practice their letters, numbers, and words in different ways and with different tools at each station. Once we have established the routine, it will allow me to work with small groups of students without being interrupted, or at least as little as possible :)

Personal Boundaries

Today we had some nurses from Langara College come and talk to us about personal boundaries (in our class, we call it personal space or invisible bubble). They did some fun activities with the students. We put hula hoops around us and walked around the class to give everyone a visual about what an invisible bubble might look like. We also looked at some pictures and decided whether or not the person on it was invading someone else's space. The students listened so well and were excited to welcome guests into the class!

Patterns

The students were making a lot of different patterns during math centers. See if your child can say what some of these patterns are, in French!

Activities you can do at home: create a pattern and have your child continue it (colors, sounds, AACAACAAC, using lego, etc), make a pattern with a mistake and have your child find it and then correct it, have them look for patterns in books, on items while shopping, in music, etc. Patterns are all around us if we look!

patterns = les régularités

Letter of the week

This week, we are learning all about the letter 'e'. Ask your child to teach you the action and the sound it makes.

Mes cheveux sont...

The students are learning how to describe themselves in French. Today, we practiced saying what color our hair is. Ask your child to tell you in French! We then put it in a graph and compared which color was most common and least common.

Mes cheveux sont....noirs/bruns/blonds

Poppies

We painted poppies to decorate our bulletin board and the display case in our school for Remembrance Day. The students will all get a poppy to wear during our assembly on Wednesday. If you would like to send a donation for the poppies, please put it in your child's pochette on Wednesday and we will put it in the collection tin.

poppy - coquelicot

C'est quoi la paix?

Todd Parr has a wonderful book called 'C'est quoi la paix?' or 'The Peace Book'. We cannot find our French copy at school (the teachers are devastated!) but I was able to find the English version online. It is a great way to talk about Remembrance Day and the things we should be thankful for. We then had a wonderful discussion about what peace means to us (but in French!) and the students drew the ideas they came up with.

'The Peace Book' by Todd Parr (link to read aloud on you tube)


What is peace?

the house I live in

my family

the food on my table

my friends at school

my family

Letters C and K

Today, we learned the sound for 'c' and 'k'. Ask your child to teach you what sound it makes and the action that goes along with it. K can be a tricky letter to write. Practice writing it as much as you can. Make it fun: use highlighters, paint, playdough, or spell it out with cheerios!