Drama

Here is our dramatic set for the play "Le petit Chaperon rouge."

For the last three weeks, the children have been practising lines for the dramatic play "Le petit Chaperon rouge." 

- Oh! Grand-maman tu as de grands yeux!
- C'est pour mieux te voir mon enfant.
- Oh! Grand-maman tu as de grandes oreilles!
- C'est pour mieux t'entendre mon enfant.
- Oh! Grand-maman tu as de grandes dents!
- C'est pour mieux te manger mon enfant.

- Au secours!





We worked on changing our voice to better portray the characters of the story. Last week the children got to perform the dramatic play of "Le petit Chaperon rouge."  We prepared the set using a box for the front of the house. We added furniture and the children made a tv and a fireplace for the inside of grandma's house. The actors wore costumes and used props to play their character. We explained to the children that sometimes actors will forget their lines and line prompters are used to whisper the lines to the actors.  We told them that Mrs. Cole and I would play that role.  As you might notice on the videos (see your child's ePorfolio), we had help from many of our friends :)  A few children did not want to perform in the play so we told them they could work behind the scene as set managers. We also had the children suggest another ending to the story as we thought the one from the book was too violent.  Suggestions were to say to the wolf to stop: "Arrête, Monsieur le Loup!" or to scare him by saying: "Bou!" Another one was to call the police: "9-1-1! Police, il y a un loup dans la maison!"

Gingerbread Man (Ava)

During Wednesday's gym class, Ava had a new game she wanted to play which she called "Gingerbread man". This game required 3 foxes, 3 owners and 22 gingerbread men.  The owners fed the foxes who had to catch the gingerbread men.  Each gingerbread man had their own pillow (bean bag) and a bed (hula hoop) which is where they would go when caught by the fox or sleep if they tired.  The gingerbread men that were caught had to do 3 Jumping Jack in their bed. When ask when does the game end, Ava answered that it would end in 7 minutes.

Camouflage

The children learned that most Artic animals are white so they can camouflage with the snow to protect themselves from predators. One morning this week, we were putting a cover on a mat for our play "Le petit Chaperon rouge" when we noticed that Giuliana G. was wearing a pattern similar to the mat cover. In Math, we are learning about patterns and the children have started to notice patterns on their clothes. After making that observation, we said the mat would be a perfect camouflage for Giuliana. We took a picture of Giuliana on the mat. The other children also wanted to camouflage themselves within the classroom environment so we took other pictures during the week. We extended the activity into a game after reading the book "Camouflage" in French. We used the pictures taken during the week to practise the pattern phrase of the book: "Qui se cache...?" The children had fun trying to identify their friend in each picture. Here are our pictures. See if you can identify who is hiding in each one.

The children learned about "Les animaux de

l'Artique during our French read-aloud.

The children identified animals who 

camouflage in their envirronment



Qui se cache sur le matelas?

Qui se cache sur le tapis?

Qui se cache dans le vestiaire?



Qui se cache dans les manteaux?




Qui se cache sur la chaise?

Qui se cache dans les manteaux?

Qui se cache sur la table?

Qui se cache sur le sofa?

Qui se cache sur la chaise?

Qui se cache sur la chaise?