Amazing Learning is Happening

We can't believe the learning that has been taking place in the short 4 weeks of school. The students are picking up on the classroom routines and the French language. They are all having so much fun and so are the teachers.

Some quick reminders:
-Pizza orders due Thursday Oct 9, you can pay by cash, cheque, or cash online
-Scholastic book orders due Friday Oct 10, please send a cheque for the orders.

*Cash online is a great way to pay for school orders without having to send money with your child to school. No worry of money getting lost and the Cash Online is the same account for your child until they graduate from Bellewood school. If you would like more information please let me know.

Today I will be posting some pictures of the amazing learning that has been happening in our room over the past few weeks. We will have some Guest Bloggers (students from our class) helping me quote the pictures and telling you what is happening in the room. In our room we teach our students that their thoughts, ideas and words have value and are important, so when I scribe what they are telling me about the picture please keep in mind that it is their exact words and not auto correct or an error.

Guest Bloggers

 

 

 

 Making Friends

 

Racing Cars

"Building Mobilios on a ramp."

"They are having a race down to the carpet."

"The first to the carpet is the winner."

"Playing with water."
"Playing with some toys."
"They are putting in the thing to try to make the thing move."





Making Trains and Tracks
"They are building something."    
"We building a city and everyone else in the picture."
"Cars and trucks"

Dramatic Play
"They are talking on the phone and eating."
"(Student) is eating."
"Playing at the house centre."

Signing up for Sharing

"(Student) is partage." (Partage is sharing in French)

"(Student) is showing the kids what he builded with the mobilios."

 Playing the Colour game

"They are playing a race with the animals and squares." "Colour squares."

 

Being Silly and Having Fun

"They are all wearing glasses."

"And then Mme Danby take their photo."

 

"Pete le chat aime les souliers blancs" Story retell

"He's stepping in a big pile of bou." (Bou is mud in French)

 

Cooking in the Kitchen

"They are picking what they want to eat."

"They are cooking food."

 

Measuring

"They are seeing how tall is that."

"using mobilios"

 

Learning in the outdoor classroom

"Playing le boutton ou le clé."

"Two people have to sit in the middle and they have to guess who has the boutton and the clé."

"Two people hid the boutton et le clé in someone's les mains"

(Boutton = button, Clé = key, les mains = hands)

 Learning about and naming a moth we found in the classroom

"You guys catch a bug and um we were picking a name for him."
"You close your eyes and somebody picks a name and then the bugs name is what they picked up."

Exploring Colours

"I think he's putting all the small teddy bears in the circle."

 Exploring magnetic letters
"We are making names"
"They are picking a colour and trying to spell the colour out with the letters."
"She is showing the teacher what she did, all the different letters."

 

Playing at the Sand Sensory table

"They are playing with the sand."

"They are making what they like."

 

Counting in French

"He's matching the dominos to the numbers."

"And seeing if he can do it or not."

"He picks up the thing and sees how many the dots and then he puts on the number."

"He's counting in French."



 

Making surveys

"(Student) is using the thing to see how big is my eyes and then she writted down on the paper. Then she tries to see what colour my eyes are."

Exploring things from nature and talking about fall

"They are voir une feuille." (looking at a leaf)
"They are looking at une feuille with a magafine glass."
"Drawing a leaf."
"They use a leaf and they copy it."

 

Painting

"She painting something."

"She's painting an apple orange or rouge."



 

Thank you for taking the time to view the blog with your child. To help spark interest in the blog and provide incentive to the students to view it at home with their family I am going to have a draw at the end of the week for a prize.

If you viewed the blog with your family write your  (Student's) favourite colour in the communication book.

Parents can help your child write their favourite colour in the book encourage them to use the French word if possible.

Each child that responds will get their name placed in a box for the prize draw on Friday.