Le bus magique en voit de tout les couleurs!

Les civilisations anciennes

With March break upon us we are wrapping up our science unit, light and sound. We finished our unit with a fun drama activity where we acted out scenes from "le bus magique". A few groups even filmed their scenes in front of our green screen in order to really be in the Friz's classroom. Cool!

After the break we will be diving into our second (and last) Social Studies unit, "les civilisations anciennes." We will start by looking at the Inuit who arrived in Canada well before the Common Era (CE). Next, we will look at a second civilisation in order to compare. The students will decide democratically which time and place to study. We have a vast choice among the Maya, the Aztek, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, antique China, mediaeval times etc. Time permitting we might even study a third.

Here is the link to our padlet with curriculum expectations and a few links. More link will be added once we have a better idea of what era and place we are studying further.

Raz +

Great news! I'm testing out Reading A to Z (which many of you will be familiar with in English) en français! Students will access books the same way they would in English with my class code soliver18. Student passwords are the same as their Google school accounts.They have a selection of books around their level. The only difference with English is that they don't have the option of being read the book (which I can only hope is coming soon). As such, I will be collecting the books I  have been sending home and not sending home new ones. Students can now read to their heart's delight online! Yey!

https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

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lumière et son - update

Check out what we have been up to!

Lumière et son

We are moving on to our new science unit, light and sound. We are going to start with sound and throw in a lot of our music curriculum as well. Next week, will have centers to explore the characteristics of sound as well as the different instruments of the orchestra. We will gather our learning in a rather new way, a blog! We will have a communal blog where we keep track or our questions and new learnings.

Here is our padlet with overall expectations and some links to explore.

New Years resolutions

Our classroom New Years Resolution is going to be to speak more French! Many of us are very capable of speaking French (or Frenglish at the very least) but aren't in the habit of doing it yet. Many of us are in the habit of speaking to Mme Oliver in French but not everyone in the class does. We are also going to work on speaking French to each other because we talk to each other much more than we talk to Mme. 

Je parle français!!!

Breakout Edu

Breakout Edu games are so much fun! They consist of a solid wood box along with different types of locks. The concept is easy enough...students must solve riddles and collaborate in order to unlock all the locks and find whatever is hidden in the box. Typically, there's a fun story to tie the whole thing together. We played my newly created game to test our knowledge of "les régions du Canada".

We learned that:
- "it's fun"
- "Collaborating is hard"
- "You have to read and follow directions"