L'Ecole Française du Maine: January 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Coopération et entraide dans des exercices de math (logique, mesure, résolution de petits problèmes), en vue de préparer le Rallye Math organisé par le réseau AEFE Amérique du Nord au mois d'avril.
Réseau Aefe Amérique du Nord

Coopération et entraide sur l'ordinateur: comment utiliser le clavier, le track pad, pour résoudre les petits exercices de lecture et de phonologie d'après une histoire lue en classe.

Le magicien des couleurs

We read the book "Le Magicien des Couleurs". This book relates the inventions of colors in a gray world.
We tried to imagine the world in one color by creating and wearing some special glasses that we made.

We also drew and painted the world around us in one color.

Ecriture créative en CM2 et 6e

The 5th graders worked on the direct object in grammar.
They discovered an extract from a poem written by Boris Vian.
They wrote the same way:
The result is full of creativity.

The 6 graders studied world little stories.
They wrote their own story, very imaginary, answering the following questions:

- Why does the frog croak?

-Why does the owl only go out at night?

-Why does the zebras have stripes?

On a visité la Brewer Marina

Our school participates in a scientific challenge organized by the réseau of the North American french schools. We have to build something that floats (a boat?) that is able to move independently while carrying something that weighs 500g.

We first try different materials or objects that float.

To understand how boats float and move, we were lucky to go visit Brewer Marines that is located in South Freeport, close to L'Ecole Française du Maine

John gave us the tour starting underneath the boats.

Mr. Brewer explained the keel and the rudder.

Each boat has a different keel.

Some children were surprised because boats are not just on the water, but have keels underneath as well so they don't capsize. We didn't show keels when we made our boat drawings originally - but now we know!