Community Helpers

A big thank you to our Community Helpers:

1. Hannah's mom ( home made soaps)

2. Wilson's dad ( Windsor City Councillor and Restaurant Owner)

Thank you for coming in and making soap ( Hannah's mom) and smoothies (Wilson's Dad) with us. We loved learning about all the different ways that our family members help our community.

Exploring Insects

Take my picture!

" i need my nail fixed. It messed up"

I made a nail salon sogn and it said open.

" Mrs . Litynsky take my picture and put it on the blog"

Nail Salon

After Ms. Leigh shared her experience at the nail salon she noticed many friends were still interested in it. So we opened up a nail salon with watercolout paints in our design studio.

Butterfly Release

This week we released all of the butterflies that hatched from their chrysalis's. We were sad to see them go but excited to have documented all of our observations in our science journal.

Teacher In Training

So many of our students are eager to take on leadership roles in our classroom including taking over our Poem of The Week Activities and Sharing Circle. They are such great leaders!

Snakes!

Our students have been approaching us lately full of wonder about a variety of topics. They are asking us to learn about many different things including snakes, caterpillars and Hawks. We asked the students to record their questions about snakes and together with the help of library books and Google we learned quite a bit about these reptiles!

Jump Rope For Heart

Plasticine

The students have really enjoyed exploring plasticine lately. They quickly noticed it is much more difficult to maneuver but in turn strengthens their fine motor development.

Ordinal Numbers

Today we took advantage of the beautiful weather to practice our knowledge of ordinal numbers. Students took turns running races and presenting one another with First, Second and Third place ribbons.

Earth Day

After reading Todd Parr's Earth Book, our friends were motivated to do something to help the Earth like picking up litter. We braved the strong winds and frigid temps to do our part.

Here is a link to a you tube reading of this fabulous book.

http://youtu.be/aXnWUS_K0XQ

Recycled Fun

a big thank you to all of our families for sending in their recyclables. not only did they help us review 3d shapes, but we re-used them to build 3d figures with our reading buddies. Some of their creative figures included robots, crocodiles, water pumps, people, puppets and televisions!

Not A Stick

In keeping with our discussions of helping our Earth, students re-used some sticks to create artwork after hearing the story Not A Stick.

Flower Power

Using glue and coloured sand, students created beautiful textured artwork of some spring tulips!

Plant Parts

We have been exploring plants within our classroom and the different parts of the plant as well as what a plant needs to grow.

On Wednesday we planted beans and taped them to our windows. We even made predictions as to how many days it will take to see something happen.

We even made flowers for our KINDER_GARDEN with our reading buddies.

Today we labelled the parts of a plant and discussed what each part does.

Finally we learned that we eat different plant parts each day, including the seed (sunflower seeds), roots (carrots), stem( celery) and flower (broccoli). The best part was sampling all of the plant parts. Yum!

3d Shapes

Here is another catchy song that you mad have heard your child humming to help us learn our 3D shapes.

Salad Spinner Art

Students enjoyed watching colours mix as they spun around the spinner. They turned out just beautiful!

Highjinks

Such a fun day!