Thursday, 17 October 2013

A La Ferme!

I hope everyone had a lovely, restful extra long weekend and enjoyed their Thanksgiving with friends and family! And for those of you who celebrate Eid, Eid Mubarak! Hopefully you enojoyed your holiday with loved ones :)

With our trip to Whittamore's fast approaching, the children are getting more and more excited about it and interested in learning about life on the farm. (On a side note- don't forget, we're going on Thursday October 24th rain or shine! Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately, comes with a lunch and brings a bag to carry home their pumpkin! If your child is not coming, please note there is no busing that day and all kindergarten classes will be attending the trip so there will be no classes for your child.) This week, we've been talking about animals that live on the farm and how pumpkins grow. In the math centre, we've been learning how to add numbers to five (ex: 1+4=5, 2+3=5 etc). It has been a short but busy and productive week!
Here is some of the vocabulary we've been working on:

La ferme                              The farm

La grange                             The barn
Les animaux                       Animals
Le dindon                            Turkey
La vache                               Cow
Le coq                                   Rooster
La poule                               Chicken
Le cheval                             Horse
Le cochon                            Pig
L’oie                                      Goose
Le canard                             Duck
Le mouton                          Sheep
La chèvre                             Goat
Les champs                         The yard
Le fermier                           The farmer

Les sciences                       Science
La citrouille                        Pumpkin
La graine                              Seed
La plante                             A plant
La vigne                               Vine
La fleur                                 Flower
Cueillir                                 To pick
La tarte à citrouille          Pumpkin pie
Grossir                                  To grow/get fat

To help the students learn some of the animals names, we've been singing Le Vieux Macdonald (Old Macdonald had a Farm):

Le vieux Macdonald à une ferme

Le vieux Macdonald à une ferme
I, A, I, A O
Et dans sa ferme il à un cochon
I, A, I, A, O
Avec un oink oink ici, et un oink oink là-bas
Oink oink ici et un oink oink partout
Le vieux Macdonald à une ferme
I, A, I, A,O
(Change bolded animal and sound for any desired animal)

Here are some of the centres we've been hard at work at:

Working on the life cycle of a pumpkin in the science centre

Adding numbers to five in the math centre



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