Saturday 14 December 2013

Joyeuses Fêtes!!

We have lots of different holidays happening this time of year.  In our class, we have a couple of Jewish students, so we decided to learn a bit about Hanukkah.  We had a great time playing Dreidels, and were singing Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel as we played!  So fun.






We have also been playing Christmas BANG! and practicing our Christmas vocabulary!






What holidays do you celebrate in your class?

Sunday 10 November 2013

Un Arbre dans Chaque Saison

Following our amazing trip to Mountsberg Conservation Area, we continue to talk about the characteristics and needs of living things.

We have also been talking about the way living things prepare for winter.


After lots of exciting Halloween activities, we explored a technique commonly used in India during Diwali to create a tree in one of the seasons.  First, we cut out and glued a tree to our page.  Then, we drew details on and around our tree to show which season we had chosen.  And then we glued on coloured salt (as with the popular Diwali tradition of making designs using coloured sand).  We got some beautiful results!










Monday 28 October 2013

More Halloween Fun!

We have been practicing our Halloween vocabulary with some super fun games!

Halloween Dominos





J'ai... Qui a...?




BANG!





Tout à sa Place




What Halloween games are you playing?

Sunday 27 October 2013

Je joue avec les mots - l'ordre alphabétique

One of our new, and very popular word work activities is here.

I printed and laminated the cards, so they can be reused (always thinking GREEN).  The students write the words in alphabetical order - using the pictures for help.  They can then make sentences orally or in their journals using the vocabulary on the sheet.

GREAT TIP: Have students take a picture of their list before they erase it, so you can see/assess their work!



Saturday 26 October 2013

Je vois...

As we continue to investigate using our senses, we used our sense of sight to notice things close up, and outside.  We went for a fall walk, to see some of the signs of the season as well.

Each of us got a clipboard and this simple page just to record what we saw.  It's FREE at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Allons-y










Sunday 20 October 2013

Les 5 Sens

We have begun talking about, and exploring with our 5 senses recently.  We've started with "Je touche"

We brainstormed some words we might use to describe how something feels (bosselé, rugeux, doux, mou, dur, lisse, petit, rectangulaire, etc)




Then, we touched with our hands, and described, and try to figure out, what mystery items were in the bags.  We recorded our predictions on these great sheets! 




We even used our feet to do the same thing.  We made three sentences about each object (eg. "C'est petit. C'est mou.  C'est lisse.") before guessing the object "Est-ce que c'est...?"  It was lots of fun!


Monday 14 October 2013

Community & Mapping

Our Social Studies unit of Community and Mapping includes an awareness of cardinal direction.  This game (available in English and French) really helped us become familiar with North, East, South and West.  We even challenged our learning to include NE, SE, NW & SW!!

After talking about symbols, and generating ideas about effective symbols, I gave out the blank game boards and symbol cards to each group.  I read out clues and students placed the symbol cards on the game board accordingly.







For example, I said "La Poste de Police est nord de la maison."  and students placed the symbol for the police station north of the house.









After the cards were complete, students practiced making sentences of their own.

"L'hôpital est est de la poste de police."

By the end, students were saying "La bibliothèque est sud-ouest de l'épicerie." etc.  Amazing!