"Snow-spirations"

This week we felt very inspired by all of the snow. It led us in a variety of directions this week.

We Built igloos with Ms. Leigh

We read Snowmen at Night and created our own Salt Dough Snowmen

We collected snow from outside for our water table

We read and responded to the book "The Biggest Snowball Ever"

We even measured how much snow fell....it was 6 cm!

Short but busy week

It may have been a short week, but this class sure was busy. Take a look at what we did!

Welcome to our new student!

More Magna-tiles explorations!

Using non-standard units to measure our shoes!

Community Painting with our Reading Buddies!

New toys mean new explorations

Thank you to Mr. Callow for purchasing the Early Years division some Magna-tiles. The room was alive with new discoveries and it helped our students take their 2D plans to 3 D shapes!

Snowy, Blowy Day

ON this snowy, blowy day we stayed warm inside but kept moving with a variety of activities. First we had our teeth checked and received stickers from the dental hygienists. Next we travelled to Africa, found it on our globe, and learned that drums are used in a lot of African music. So off we went to the music room to bang on the drums! Finally we explored Insta- snow .......right away our little scientists figured out that it may feel like snow....it is just not as cold!

"Is it salt? Is it sugar? It smells like salt."

The water is gone.

Smells like play dough

It looks like snow but it is warm.

It is soft.

It looks like salt. It feels like snow but it feels squishy.

I made a snowball.

What was really amazing about the drums is that as soon as we began to explore, some students made immediate connections to stories and familiar shows. " That sounds like Twinkle, Twinkle" or " That sounds like " Fee Fi FO Fum", and that reminds me of the transformers song.

We even told a story about Mice in the attic using the drums....the students enjoyed using different parts of their hands to represent different animal sounds. They enjoyed the elephant most.