Les trois petits cochons

We enjoyed working on the "Petit chat" story so much that we thought it might be fun to work on "Les trois petits cochons" next. We started by doing the story on a felt board. We really loved acting it out and saying the words together. We even had 'wolf faces' to hold up while the wolf character was speaking. After this some of us decided to make our own puppets, books and pictures. We worked very hard on writing the words from the story and drawing the pictures. We were excited to see that even though we were all writing the same story all of our books turned out so different! We all have such unique thinking. Next, we had a challenge. Can you build the houses from the story?

We chose groups, we talked about materials and strategies and then we built our houses. Once we were done Mlle Benneian tried to blow our houses down with the 'wolf'' (her hair dryer). We had so much fun! We were way better builders than the pigs from the story because none of our houses fell down! Way to go everyone! The commentary below from the students is exact quotes. They did such a great job speaking French! Wow!

"The pigs are trying to get away from the big bad wolf because they don't want to get eaten. They go to their brother's houses because the first pig got his house blown down by the big bad wolf so he ran to the second pigs house, that is his brother. Then the big bad wolf blew down the second house down so they ran to the other brother's house. The big bad wolf couldn't blow that one down, he kept trying but he didn't blow it down. So he climbed in the chimney and fell in the soup!"

"Le loup a une idée! Il va tomber dans la soupe!" -Paisley 

(The wolf has an idea. He will fall in the soup!)

"Le loup tombe dans la soupe!" -Kait

(The wolf fall into the soup)

We labelled our pictures. 

"It is la maison de briques! They are trying to get away from the big bad wolf, so the third one built a brick house because they didn't want the big bad wolf to eat them. There are three places to sit because there are three pigs. They can watch TV. There is a soup for the big bad wolf to fall in too. There is bread, milk and a computer in here too. The chimney is up [there] at the top." - Kate

Helping a friend learn to draw the wolf.

"We are building the maison de pailles!" - Paisley

(straw house)

"Je fais la maison de bois."- Yara

(I am making the wood house)

"C'est la maison de bois. It's not blowing down!" -Max

"Mlle Benneian a un [séchoir] pour le loup et Mlle Benneian

 n'a pas tomber la maison de bois!" -Yara

(Mlle Benneian has a blow dryer as the wolf and

 Mlle Benneian didn't make the house fall down)

Butterfly Art

Thank you to the Cichon family for donating some fun items for us to use in the art centre. We had a lot of fun making butterfly bracelets and puppets! We always welcome donations to the art or writing centre :)

Train Your Brain with Saidat

On Tuesday, we attended an assembly with Saidat.  She taught us about training our brains.  We learned that our brains are the size of our two fists put together. She told us that when we come to school, we train our brains. 

She spoke about listening, asking questions and trying our best everyday that we are at school, in order to train our brains.  We discussed how sometimes you need to ask for help so that your brain can find the answer and that you can't know everything, but that's why we're learning!

We also learned some positive phrases that we can say to others to let them know that they are appreciated: "I like you, I'm glad yo're in my class, let's learn together!"  "Teacher you're cool, thank you for being my teacher, I think you're the best teacher in the world!"  It is always nice to make others feel good. 

Finally, we learned the power of the word YET.   Maybe you can'd do something YET, but if you try, you're going to get better at it. 

As she taught us about the power of training our brains, she also taught us a dance that was really difficult.  She showed it to us once and although we all thought we couldn't do it (teachers included), she reminded us that we just couldn't do it YET!  She broke it down into steps and helped us along the way, and in the end we all did it together.  It was a lot of fun!

Making Elsa Capes

The last couple of days, some of our students have been helping each other make capes just like Elsa's from the movie Frozen!  They also made other Elsa accessories like necklaces, rings, crowns, and makeup.