Mme Chelsey's Blog

I hope everyone has a wonderful and relaxing break, I cannot wait to hear all about it when we come back in January. This week we have been practicing how to decompose numbers using number bonds. We looked at how many different ways we could break down each number and practiced how to fill in number bonds using dominos. This activity went home in their math bags today- we will be doing this activity on January 6th, so no need to start until we are learning online. The kids also made tree ornaments for you using Shrinky Dinks. They traced their hands and decorated them like Santa.  We had so much fun this week watching the Winter Celebration, wearing our festive wear and wearing our PJ's.  Important dates: December 18th - No school January 4th - No school  

This week we decorated our windows using a bunch of different methods like paper tearing, finger painting and tissue paper to create beautiful winter bulbs. If you are walking by our window, have your child point our their bulbs!  We also created tie dye quilting squares to represent ourselves, and show how we are all unique and awesome. The entire Tuscany School will create a piece of the quilt and it will be put together to create one giant school quilt.  We also are working on using manipulatives to figure our different ways to create the same number. For example : 3 and 3 is 6, 4 and 2 is 6 , 5 and 1 is 6. We are also continuing to practice counting forwards and backwards from 10, and using strategies to figure out what all those numbers are in French. We also filmed our Winder Celebration. The kids cannot wait to show you all the hard work they put into learning their winter poem!! We will be sharing and watching the celebration on December 16th.  From Mme Lynley: "I...

This week we have started working on  C'est l'hiver. We are practicing saying full sentences by inserting our new vocab words we are learning about winter; " Pendant l'hiver j'aime......" .  we talking about all the different things we love to do during winter like skating, drink hot chocolate, build a snowman and building snow forts.  Here are some songs we have been working on in class: C'est l'hiver La neige tombe We are also getting prepared for our Winter Celebration which parents can watch online December 16th-more details to come . We are also preparing for Deck the Windows! Keep an eye out after the 10th of December as Tuscany will decorate all the classroom windows of the school.  Before winter break, I will send out a plan for online learning and what you will expect during the 4 days online. I will give a break down of the groups and try to be mindful of siblings in older grades and their schedules as well. Please let me know if you have any...