Thursday, November 30, 2017
French: L'Orangina!
In France, people love to sit in cafés and leisurely savor a cup of hot chocolate, an Orangina, or a Coca Light. For this reason, the girls have been learning drink vocabulary in French class. They have discussed their likes and dislikes and practiced ordering drinks in Parisian cafés. In the pictures below, they are putting on skits. The girls memorized their lines and pretended to be waitresses and customers. Afterwards, we celebrated the end of our unit by tasting real Orangina in class. Mmmm c'est bon !
Friday, November 10, 2017
From the Library
Second graders started off the year with a world tour. We followed Tim Egan's Dodsworth (a well-dressed, well-mannered, adventure-seeking rat), and his less than ideal travel companion, the duck, to New York, Paris, London, Rome and Tokyo. Ask your daughter what kind of trouble the duck found in each city.
We have been perfecting our greetings around the circle. Favorites include the crayon factory greeting and the fruit salad greeting. We've composed some very inventive two word stories, and are becoming experts at deciphering the first grade shelf books on display each week. Last week they were all books about painters. This week they are the colors of the rainbow in order.
Other shared books have included Tim Egan's Burnt Toast on Davenport Street (in which a magic fly grants three wishes), Bob Raczka's Niko Draws a Feeling (in which a boy draws not the sun or his face on which the sun shines, but the warmth of the sun on his face), Jane Cutler's Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies (in which a girl and her grandmother play on all the playground equipment that babies are too small for, and compare thoughts on the new baby at home), and Audrey Vernik's Second Grade Holdout (in which new second graders miss first grade, are concerned about second grade, and then confidently rise to the challenge).
We have been perfecting our greetings around the circle. Favorites include the crayon factory greeting and the fruit salad greeting. We've composed some very inventive two word stories, and are becoming experts at deciphering the first grade shelf books on display each week. Last week they were all books about painters. This week they are the colors of the rainbow in order.
Other shared books have included Tim Egan's Burnt Toast on Davenport Street (in which a magic fly grants three wishes), Bob Raczka's Niko Draws a Feeling (in which a boy draws not the sun or his face on which the sun shines, but the warmth of the sun on his face), Jane Cutler's Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies (in which a girl and her grandmother play on all the playground equipment that babies are too small for, and compare thoughts on the new baby at home), and Audrey Vernik's Second Grade Holdout (in which new second graders miss first grade, are concerned about second grade, and then confidently rise to the challenge).
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