Friday, October 28, 2016

Halloween is coming...

Students of the school have been very busy with Halloween projects...The PS and MS created edible spiders, the cutest spiders I have ever seen...


 They also used Q-tips to create skeletons...




The GS and CP have been working on an album, Va-t'en, Grand Monstre Vert by Ed Emberley. After having studied the book, they each created their own monster and wrote a sentence to describe it.







 Halloween is just around each corner of the school...



Thursday, October 27, 2016

Visit at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray for the GS and CP



The students of K/1 started studying animals in class: how they move, what they eat, how they reproduce.
To start this unit, they visited the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray.
After a nice picnic, the students had a guided tour during which they discovered great information about Maine animals, their fur, what they eat...









 le lynx










 le renard









                                                                               l'ours brun








l'élan

                                                                                 l'élan









                                                                                         le cerf








 le raton-laveur









 les ours bruns


They had a wonderful time discovering and learning so many new things on all these animals from Maine.

Fête mexicaine des morts avec les CM1 et les CM2



This week, the CM1 and CM2 are celebrating a Mexican week of Dia de Los Muertos...

Yesterday, they made the recipe for pan del muerto in class. The challenging part was that they followed a recipe in Spanish. They realized that thanks to French and English languages, they were able to follow very easily and to guess the meaning of unknown words. For example, limon is close to lemon.


The breads were delicious and the students really enjoyed following the recipe in Spanish...the joys of plurilinguism... 


They also explored makeup inspired by Mexican skulls during this celebration. They created their own. The results are wonderful!










They invited their parents to a presentation on Friday afternoon and prepared decorated marshmallows as a special treat.


In art, they created a special box like Mexicans do with skull characters, vivd colors and glitter.




They presented all their projects to their parents. 









Bravo for all their hard work! It was a wonderful project!