April 15, 2013

I hope you had a great weekend.  It's nice to see all the snow melting.  This week we are talking about Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd this year.  Check out this interesting video about the danger of plastic bags:

For No Excuse Words, we put this week's words in our dictionary:

1. me
2. off
3. where
4. twelve
5. thirteen

For Word Word we did Making Words:

In Religion today we read John 9:1-12, the story about how Jesus cured a blind man.

In Social Studies we talked about how the original French settlers in Canada would work together to complete jobs such as bringing in the crops, building a house, etc...  These were called "Work Bees".  After the work was complete they would celebrate with a party.  One of the dishes they would make for the party was Sucre a la Creme.  As we are an Apple School I am unable to make some for the kids however if you would like to try to make it at home, here is the recipe:

Have a great night!!!