Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:
*les vêtements d'hiver (the names of our winter clothing in French) we learned a new song!
*letter Hh
* 2D shapes: naming and attributes (corners- "coins", sides- "côtés"
*noticing changes in our outdoor environment
Learning through play this week:
ART: make a reindeer
MATH - 2D shape match with close pine & shape puzzles
LOOSE PARTS: make a snowman, make a gingerbread man
STEM - building with lego and wooden blocks
SMALL WORLD: train station and winter scene
LITERACY: holiday tree letter matching
DRAMATIC PLAY - Santa's Workshop
Sight Words
Je (I)
Tu (you)
les couleurs: rouge, orange, jaune, vert, bleu, violet, rose, blanc, noir, gris, brun
un(e) (one)
vois (see)
We have been working at creating a sentence with the sight words we have learned throughout the year in addition to the characters from the storybook ¨Ours Brun dis-moi ce que tu vois):
oiseau (bird), canard (duck), cheval (horse), ours (bear), chat (cat), chien (dog), mouton (sheep), grenouille (frog)
Example:
Je vois un cheval bleu.
Je vois un ours brun.
New vêtements d'hiver song
The letter Hh is silent in French
Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:
*les vêtements d'hiver (the names of our winter clothing in French)
*les ours (Bears)
*letter Ee
* 2D shapes continued
*different celebrations: Kwanzaa
Learning through play this week:
ART: make your own Ours Brun puppets
MATH - holiday patterning
MATH - ours race
STEM - build a habitat for an animal using different blocks
SMALL WORLD: sensory bin hibernation and winter animals
winter creation with 2D blocks
2D shapes with geoboards and elastics (building fine motor strength)
LITERACY: Ours Brun write the room
DRAMATIC PLAY - Santa's Workshop
After reviewing the shapes we have learned this week we created our very own shape monsters and identified how many shapes were used to create the shape monsters.
Playdough sweaters
Ours Brun puppets
Geoboard shapes
Decorating trees with loose parts