On Monday, the students worked hard to finish up their 3D physical maps so that we could wrap up the map unit. They did a great job painting them and labeling some notable physical features. They also added map features such as a title, compass rose and legends to tell what the different colours on the map meant.
We also enjoyed dressing up in our national costumes and got to be one of the first classes to visit the wonderful culture week displays down in the school’s entrance area.
Tuesday, was a busy day as we had a culture week lesson about writing a haiku poem before recess.
The students wrote their own haiku poems later on in the week during language time.
Then after morning recess, Pauline’s mom joined us to share a bit of French culture and cuisine with the class as she explained about the tradition of making crêpes for Candlemas. She demonstrated how to make them and then everyone had a chance to practice flipping one and adding their favorite topping to it. We could choose from sugar, jam, Nutella or Canadian Maple syrup! I’m not sure which part they enjoyed more, eating them or flipping them! If you would like to make some at home yourself, please see the recipe here!
Then after filling up on delicious crêpes, we wore silly hats to kick off our new unit on how different cultures use movements to express themselves. Grade 3 demonstrated that they have a lot of coordination and rhythm as they took on the challenge of learning the Cha Cha Slide dance!
In math, we’ve been sliding, flipping and turning too as we’ve taken a break from division to focus on geometric translations, reflections and rotations.
On Wednesday, we got to be nice and cozy in the classroom in our pajamas! Linke’s mom came in and took some photos for us in the MPR with the book and culture week display and we had a chance to show off our Cha Cha Slide dance moves!
During our weekly plan lesson, we made up for the PE lesson that we missed last week when it was raining so we got to play some soccer in our pj’s! Unfortunately, I didn’t take any photos of that, but I do have a few from when we played soccer on Tuesday!
On Thursday, we had Silly Sock day and we tried to make it a bit of a competition in the class to see who would have the silliest socks! Everyone had two votes and was not allowed to vote for themselves. All the students were very principled as they followed that rule and our first-place winner was Luke with the most original socks as they were hand-decorated. Sarang and Soichiro tied for 2nd place and Mizuki came in third.
Also on Thursday, for culture week Leon brought in and shared with us how to do a Japanese cultural activity: Katanuki. This is something that is often done at festivals and is quite challenging (even I could not do it successfully!) as it involves cutting a shape out of a thin piece of hardened sugar using a toothpick or thumbtack. The first student to succeed at it was Brithney! Thank you to Leon and Ms. Le Henne for this fun activity!
In the later part of the week, the students worked hard as they created learner profile posters featuring characters from their favourite books! They really did a great job!!
Finally, Friday was Favourite Character Day. So most students came to school as one of their favourite characters! We also started our reading groups this week, and I think we’re off to a good start because Luke came dressed as the main character of his group’s book, The Last Kids on Earth!
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