I hope that you all had a great March break and that everyone is well rested. I had a great trip but I am glad to be back. The students will get a chance to see some pictures from my travels and they will also be very excited to see that Dimoitou came along for the adventure.
We are continuing our travel and methods of travel theme this week. We are getting a lot of post cards from around the world. I hope to have more through out the remaining months so that we can keep the students learning going. They get very excited when we get a new postcard. We have been very lucky seeing that most of them have been in French. After I read the postcard we find its location on the map then chat about how we would get there, whether it is by train, plane or boat. They are starting to develop a sense that the world is very large and that it does take sometime to get to certain destinations.
We are having a great time in math learning about measurement and have a bunch of great activities planned for the next couple of weeks. I still encourage your child to work on their addition and subtraction, counting to 100, counting by 2,5, and 10, as well as counting backwards.Somethings that you can do at home is have them observe different household items and determine which are long(long),longer (plus long), short (court)shorter(plus court), about the same ( a peu pres aussi long), far (loin) further (plus loin), furthest ( le plus loin).
We have started a new reward system in class which is designed to encourage students to speak french in class. If a student is speaking french in class, whether it is to a friend or myself they are rewarded with a sticker on a piece of paper. At the end of the week a store will be open, where students will be able to purchasee items with their stickers. Every item will have a different value, larger items will be worth more.I have gone to the Dollar store and picked up a bunch of items. If you are interested in helping out you can also pick up a few items from the dollar store and send them and I will add these items to the store. Our first store opening will be this Friday!
In the next little while we will be doing some crafts that will require egg cartons, if you could, could you please save them and send them in with your child. Also we have 2 boxes of Kleenex remaining in class, which will not so us till the end of the year. If you could send in a box with your child it would be greatly appreciated!
That is all for now, I hope that you have a great week !
Laurie Anne :)
I thought I would include a picture of Dimoitou enjoying a boat ride through Venice, Italy!
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