It was a fantastic lesson! Thanks Mme Sarah!
This week, Mme Sarah introduced the students to binary numbers. When a computer's "brain" is thinking, how does it represent numbers?! They learned that computers represent numbers in only 0's and 1's and that there is only one way to represent each number in binary. They then practised converting from binary to decimal numbers and back again. It was a fantastic lesson! Thanks Mme Sarah!
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Let's do a poll of our favourite mode of transportation! After deciding on a few modes of transport and making sure we covered the three categories, land, sea and air, we went on our poll taking mission. Students bustled around the class asking their friends which they preferred from the selected few and recorded the answer. They then went on to the next part of the activity, representing the data they gathered. We used a pie chart template to graph the data and our information was ready to present. Now I would tell you what the preferred mode of transportation was among the ones we chose but somehow not everyone has the same final tally. Rest assured that all the graphs were completed accurately but I imagine that some silly friends changed the answer they gave from one poll taker to another. The activity was a success nonetheless!
Yesterday, we spent some time writing a story as a group, en Français. With a few predetermined parts of the story, the kids worked together to fill in the blanks. The collaboration was excellent! Lots of imaginative ideas and creative ways of extending the ideas of our friends. Once our story was complete, we read it together and then used our journals to illustrate any part of the story we wanted. The illustrations were great and quite varied which shows just how much we imagine things differently in our heads! We wrote a few sentences that briefly described parts of the story as well. Ask your child to tell you what our story was about!
A huge thanks to yesterday's special visitor, Saki, for the awesome Japanese lesson! Saki told us all about the Shinkansen, otherwise known as the Japanese Bullet Train, and showed us a video of one going by a station. They go very fast! After we talked about the Shinkansen, Saki introduced and sang the Japanese alphabet. We each got a paper with the sounds we were to find on the alphabet sheet and with that information were able to find the corresponding character to write our name in Japanese. Some names were easy, like mine, but some sounds are not found or are slightly different then our sounds so some of our names sounded really cool! The kids enjoyed their lesson and I'm sure that, for some, they discovered a passion for languages! Thanks so much Saki!
Here, students are working on reading and colouring the pages of their very own book, Le voyage des sons. After reading it all together and reviewing the sounds found in the book, the students had the task of reading then colouring each page on their own. Later, we will make a video of us reading the book! The book is about travel, which ties in perfectly to our current unit but is being done during French lessons. Some of the sounds in the book are new and some we have worked on already. Most of the vocabulary is quite familiar so the kids had a great time reading it. I hope our video will turn out, so stay tuned!
This week in art class, students made window decals, the theme, transportation! After choosing the mode of transportation they wanted to make, Mme France drew an outline on wax paper. They coloured regular school glue, poured it into squeeze bottles and filled in the outline. Some sweet sparkles were added and voilà, now to let them dry!
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