February

22 - 25 février

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Kindness - la gentillesse, I like - "J'aime"

*En hiver, j'aime faire....

*Letter Ll: pronounced the same in French as it is in English. Action: pretend to lick an ice cream cone

* Measurement: height (hauteur) and length (longueur), rules of measurement, measuring using non-standard units of measurement

Learning through play this week:

ART: watercolor paper towel art
SMALL WORLD: duplo and little people play
MATH: ten frame constructions
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LITERACY: J'aime booklets
MEASUREMENT:
1. weight comparisons TRUE or FALSE
2. What weighs more: mystery bag

Which is the heaviest? Which is the lightest?

True or False with weight

Duplo creations

Experimenting with capacity

Which container holds the most sand? Which container holds the least amount of sand?

Paper towel water colours

La lettre Oo

Measurement

Mon pingouin mesure...

combien de blocks? (how many blocks?)

How can you show kindness?

After creating our own dinosaurs we did an art gallery walk and practiced complimenting the artists by telling them "J'aime ton dinosaure!"

14 - 17 février

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Valentine's Day: kindness - la gentillesse, I like - "J'aime"

*Winter Olympic Sports

*Letter Ff: pronounced the same in French as it is in English. Action: rub arms up and down like you are cold

* Measurement: height (hauteur) and length (longueur), rules of measurement, measuring using non-standard units of measurement

Learning through play this week:

ART: marble heart painting
MATH: addition heart stew
MATH: measurement in the classroom
STEM: building with magnatiles
LITERACY: writing letters
SENSORY: Valentine's Day
Problem Solving: tic tac toe
Roll and Cover with addition and number recognition
DRAMATIC PLAY: post office

Marble Heart Painting

Tic Tac Toe

Problem Solving

Magnatile Creations

Valentine Sensory Play

Addition Stew

Letter Making

Roll and Cover

Mesurer: Longueur et Hauteur

We have been measuring many different objects in the classroom with a variety of non-standard units of measurement and ensuring we are following the rules of measurement for height (hauteur) and length (longueur).

We even created our very own penguins and measured their height using unifix cubes and plastic blocks.

La lettre Ff

Click on the picture below to listen to the Ff song

J'aime ma famille!

JK's are working on letter recognition and using a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters.

SK's are working on using proper writing strategies when writing a sentence:

starting with an uppercase and continuing with lowercase letters
using finger spacing in between words
finishing sentences with a period

J'aime ma famille

We have started learning about the members of our family. How many members are in your family?

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February is all about kindness! After reading the story "Have you filled a bucket today?" we created our very our classroom bucket to fill with all of our classroom kindnesses. We cannot wait to fill our classroom kindness bucket.

This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show readers how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love by “filling buckets.”

07 - 11 février

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Winter Olympic Sports

*100's Day

*New vocabulary: "J'aime..." (I like...)

*letter Uu: pronounced “eew” (said like EE with rounded lips). Action: pinch nose like something smells

* Measurement: height and length, rules of measurement, measuring using non-standard units of measurement

Learning through play this week:

100’s Day - this week we celebrated 100’s day throughout the week with: counting activities, loose parts, building, crafts and more!
STEM Challenge - what can you build with 100 Dixie cups and large popsicle sticks
Fine Motor - Groundhog day inspired quite the interest in shadows so we made our own shadow animal art!
Science - can you make 100 drops of water! (Fine motor)
Building with magnatiles

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SKIING

We have been very excited about this years Winter Olympics and decided to become Olympic competitors! We made our very own set of “skis” after talking about symmetry, then we designed our own "skis" and went skiing through the classroom and hallway!

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100's Day FASHION SHOW

Our Dragonflies and Dragonfly families worked so hard to create their very own 100’s Day fashion! With each 100’s Day shirt looking unique our Dragonflies showed off their incredible designs and celebrated being 100 days smarter! Bravo!

31 janvier - 4 février

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Lunar New Year

*Groundhog day song: Monsieur Marmotte

*New vocabulary: "J'aime..." (I like...)

*letter Oo: pronounced the same in French as it is in English. Action: move hand like going over waves in the ocean

* Measurement: length and height, rules of measurement

*making predictions! Predictions for groundhog day

Learning through play this week:

ART: construction paper snowman scene, Chinese word painting, making lucky dragons for the Lunar New Year
MATH - monster measurement: comparing blocks to paper clips
SCIENCE: experimenting with snow, baking soda, vinegar and food colouring using pipettes
LOOSE PARTS: make a snowman, make a gingerbread man
STEM - build a structure using different 3D wooden solids, roll the preposition dice and place your person in that location
LITERACY: Write the Room -- measurement (vocabulary "combien"-how many)
DRAMATIC PLAY - veterinarian's office continued