February 6 - 10, 2017

The sound we focused on this week was "ou" which sounds like "oo" in English. We read together a couple of books that highlight words with this French digraph. The students built words with "ou" during word work time.

 I introduced the five puppet characters I use to teach 5 reading comprehension strategies: Fleur Connecteur, Rolande qui se demande, Didi qui prédit, Imogène qui imagine and Le compte qui raconte. These puppets make connections with the text, ask questions about the text, predict events, make mental images as they read, and retell a story after reading it. We will start off by reading with Fleur Connecteur for a few weeks.

In writer's workshop, we edited a student's story together, adding capital letters and periods and fixing spelling errors. We reviewed all of the comptines we have learned this year, and students were encouraged to write down the comptines if they lacked writing topics. We also finished our Chaque Jour projects.

In math, we continued to work with 2-dimensional shapes. We did a shape hunt, with the kids finding squares, rectangles, circles and triangles all around the classroom.

After collecting several photos of each shape, the students showed some of their photos to the class and from these we discussions we made the following chart of properties of the shapes:

We did another activity that had kids comparing shapes by their properties. The table groups were given a collection of shapes that had some properties in common. They took turns around the table (passing a bean bag to keep track of the turns) playing a "game" in which one person starts by putting a shape onto the paper on the table. Player 2 adds a shape to the paper and says what is the same about the 2 shapes. Player 3 has to try adding another shape that shares the same property. When no more shapes can be added, the game starts again. This had kids noticing round versus straight sides, the number of sides, convex or concave corners, and more.

We also read a book about the 100th day of school, in preparation for the following Monday.

We made cards for 2 babies, one for Julian's new baby sister and one for Mme Dungo's new baby. We used the collage and layering techniques introduced to us by Leslie and Jade.