Thank you to Lucas H.'s mom, Donna, for helping us with this activity!
Today we had lots of fun making our "gingerbread" houses (actually made out of graham crackers). I think the children consumed just as much candy as they ended up putting on their creations! Hopefully the houses made it to your homes without falling apart. Thank you to Lucas H.'s mom, Donna, for helping us with this activity!
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Happy International Peace Day! We celebrated this day by reading Todd Parr's "The Peace Book" and discussing what peace means and what we find peaceful. The children drew peace drawings (which you will find in your child's portfolio at Student Led Conferences). Here are our ideas about peace: Morning Class Peace is...
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What a fabulous day we had at the John Janzen Nature Centre. Thank you to all of our parents who were able to join us. We spent the day learning about animals and insects, about seasonal changes, and exploring the Edmonton river valley. The kids had a blast and we had many children sleeping on the bus ride home! We have been talking about and reading stories about spring. To begin our day I asked children to share something that happens in spring. Their ideas are listed below, followed by some photos from our chilly spring walk! Morning Class
Afternoon Class
What a great field visit this was! Many thanks to our amazing parent volunteers who led students around the museum to view the different galleries. We spent some time playing outside over the lunch break and really enjoyed our time in the discovery room learning about spring. Here are some photos from our fantastic day together. Thanks for sending a container of veggies for our soup. We sang our "Stone Soup Song" as we put our veggies in (with a real stone of course) and let it cook for the day. While it was cooking we made butter by shaking whipping cream in a jar while we danced. We spread our fresh butter on buns and ate it with our soup. Yum! Morning ClassComments we heard while the children were eating (or looking at) their stone soup:
Afternoon ClassSt. Patrick's Day is one of my favourite celebrations! The children loved reading stories about leprechauns and creating leprechaun traps in hopes of catching one and getting his pot of gold! Here are some pictures documenting the process: Morning ClassAfternoon ClassTo begin Groundhog Day was read the story "Wake Up, Groundhog". We talked about what we know about shadows, here are the children's ideas:
Our discussion lead to the conclusion that everything has a shadow, but the children wondered if earth has a shadow. Some thought yes, others thought no, and some wondered if we could even know because the shadow would be in outer space. We then created a class graph to depict our predictions on whether Balzac Billy would see his shadow. After counting the predictions, we watched a video online showing that Billy did not see his shadow... could we really have an early spring? Yesterday we went on a field trip to the Grade 2-O classroom. The grade twos have been working incredibly hard on their Reptile Zoo. In small groups, they researched information about each one of their classroom pets. We learned about the ball python, bearded dragon, leopard gecko, and tree agama. Fantastic job grade twos! We were able to touch the ball python and bearded dragon if we wanted to. The children were attentive listeners and loved seeing the different reptiles! Our class raised $84.50 for the Infinite Woofs Animal Rescue and the total amount raised by all classes was $326! Thank you for your contributions! The children loved bringing their stuffies to school on Friday. At community circle we introduced our stuffies to the class and they sat in our laps for the remainder of carpet time. Our stuffies watched us do our sound page and played with us during center time. At the math center, the students could measure how long their stuffie was - using non-standard units like blocks or counters. For physical education we brought our stuffies down to the gym and gave them a ride on our parachute. Morning ClassAfternoon Class |
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