Incognito.... and a snow sculpture update

The name of our unit in Grade 7 and 8, "Incognito" comes from the Italian language and means to be disguised. In this unit, we have explored masks from various cultures and discussed the materials they are made from, their purposes, designs and meanings.  Then we created our own masks, wrote about them and presented them this week.  Students then had an opportunity to ask and answer questions about each other's masks, exposition style. Our masks were our conversation pieces!

Having a fun moment posing with our masks!

Grade 6 students have been speaking about animals that they are afraid of (or not) and explaining why.  We enjoyed a short video about exotic animals that perhaps may have changed some of our views on lizards, snakes and arachnids.

Grades 3-5 students learned and practiced the prepositions "sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière et à côté de" in a fun song.  We practiced using these prepositions to describe objects that were out of place in an illustration of a very interesting and bizarre classroom!

The beginning of our version of "Noah's Ark"

This week students from Grades 3-8 will begin taking turns working on our snow sculpture during recesses and I will post updates. We are looking  forward to our Festival du Voyageur week (next week).  Thank you to all the parents for driving, chaperoning and volunteering their time and energies to make this event possible.

À la prochaine!

Mme Christensen