It was a very busy month with a lot of special themes.
La Saint Valentin was used to introduce the word aimer (to like). We had a great laugh watching Tonton being silly, and singing a song with a familiar tune. I get a kick out of the grade 3 students. Although this is the third year they have watched these particular videos, they still love them.
The grade 3 students learned a bit about Canadian history when introduced to Les voyageurs. We continued to learn more clothing vocabulary words and how to add colour words to the descriptions (a red toque = une tuque rouge).
Les cuillères (the spoons) were are big hit this month. We spent a bit of time talking about how to care for the spoons (no fingers between), how to hold the spoons (where the solid piece of wood is), and how to tap the spoons (gently). We also learned how to "stay" our spoons when they need to be silent. Here is the beginning of a Spoon Medley that we worked on. We learned 8 different patterns and played along with some traditional French songs.
Thursday, February 18th was the centième jour de l'école (hundredth day of school) so the Grade 1 students celebrated how much smarter we are after 100 days. Students enjoyed choosing and decorating a special 100th day bookmark written in French.