We began the week with a practice session of speaking French to other students in the classroom. There was quite an increase in speaking French this week, and the students won the prize of a trip to the park for Friday's heure de jeux! Our French digraph was "-ien" which comes only at the end of words. The kids began telling the Fox and the Walking Stick story with me, correcting me when I made mistakes. They also enjoyed correcting the many mistakes I made in my morning messages. We had a message this week with no apostrophes, in which all the contractions were written in long form. They quickly caught on to the need for an apostrophe in French when the first word ends in a vowel and the second word begins with a vowel (i.e. je ai becomes j'ai).
We focussed on the silent consonants at the end of words, calling them "ghost letters." After reading a story about a sneaky ghost, we looked at several examples of these. Then each table group tried to collect as many words as they could with various final, silent consonants.
Then they counted up how many words they had found, and we made a bar graph to show the final tally.
The kids worked on patterning problems through worksheets.
And then, come Friday, we had a great time at Margaret Fairley Park!
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