We looked at the travel blog, written in French, of our classmate who is currently travelling with her parents, to return in January. The kids were very interested by the pictures of monkeys and elephants, and we all read the blog text aloud together.
We had new words of the week, still using the "a" sound. Besides reading them in our morning messages, we played games with them in the form of word necklaces. The kids each chose a word which was theirs to wear for these activities. I would start off by laying the word necklaces out, scattered around the classroom. The kids needed to find "their" word, put it on and come make a circle on the carpet. Then we played circle games which required each student to point at a word on someone's necklace and read it. Different variations had them moving to stand beside that person or just sitting down once the word was read.
We learned two new comptines this week, bringing our total to five. We continued with free writing, with many of the kids writing phrases from the comptines they know. I finished assessing the reading levels of the students, and now each child has a "sac bleu" (blue bag) which holds two levelled readers. Now when the kids "read to self" for 10 minutes, they start by reading those two readers and then move on to other classroom books. They can trade in their readers when they want something new to read. We began partner reading this week. I ask the kids to sit so that they both have their eyes on the book, and the person reading must use their finger to read so the listener can follow along. Each student reads one of their levelled books to their partner before moving on to enjoying classroom books together.
We continued to sing our vowel song, and we do our hand gestures along with the song.
Our alphabet review is humming along. The kids came up with an outrageous number of "p" words! We even had to put some on the other whiteboard - the kids couldn't get over it!
In math, we continued to do carpet activities like ten frame flash and finger flash to develop subitizing skills and solidify the French number names. We started singing a new song that counts to 20 in a rap. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUr8omTpCs. We practiced together saying the French phrases involved in playing our two math games, Serpent Superbe and La Guerre. Then the kids practiced playing the games using French, and I gave popsicle sticks to the kids I heard speaking French to recognize their effort.
We continued our work with addition and subtraction equations, one being the inverse of the other. In partners the kids made a line of interlocking cubes in two colours. Then they wrote the addition and subtraction equations that their cubes expressed. They brought their work to the carpet to present and discuss.
Later in the week, they did the same activity individually. Once everyone was finished, the kids walked around the tables looking at each others' work. I provided sticky notes with question marks on them so that kids could identify anything that they had questions about or disagreed with. Then we discussed some of those equations as a class.
We finished gluing tissue paper onto the cardstock frames that we started last week. Inside their frame, each child wrote the feeling word that their weaving had been about. These are now displayed together in the hall.
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