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!