It has been a lovely, warm week at school so to wake up to the little bit of mist and drizzle is quite refreshing. I know my garden at home will love it as will our garden at school. Last week we had to walk buckets of water to our gardens (thank you to Lindsay, Makyn's mom) who took all the children out bucket by bucket to water the beautiful potatoes. The little knob to turn on the tap was misplaced...but all is good now. Soon we will need to have parents volunteer to go out and water our garden using the hose (not the bucket method) as the weather is requiring daily watering. Ms. Jung's potatoes are a little bit bigger than ours but dont worry...ours will catch up!!
This Monday we will have Nikoo joining us to do some transplanting of our tomatoes and basil and zucchini plants. They have been growing quite beautifully in our classroom and now it is time to take them outside for some blue sky and fresh air! Lets see what we can produce.
This last week we have been busy:
On Monday Sarah came in and we did some drama. Has your child talked about our little talent show? Well Sarah has talked about doing a talent show/play...its a little bit of everything that the children have been working on with Sarah over the year. She is writing a little script that showcases all the drama activities, yoga and talents that we have practiced. Sarah is amazing at creating fun and dramatic games for the children. We are using our Mondays to practice some activities and then in June we will be inviting all the parents for a little showing of our talents.
On Wednesday we were introduced to our new classroom pets. Our little butterfly caterpillars have arrived. WE took a look at the Painted Lady caterpillar, just a little look as we will be starting the study of butterflies and caterpillars next week. They had just hatched from the eggs when we received them and they are sitting in a container of honeysuckle paste (that will be their food till they become a chrysalis). On Wednesday we wrote all that we knew about butterflies and then drew and painted beautiful butterflies. The children are very excited about our next unit of study. Can you believe that we are in the middle of May already? And that there is only a month and a half left??? Time flies when you are having fun.
On Thursday we joined Ms. Whitelaw in the library for another wonderful Steve Jenkins book...it was the Bones book. We looked at different animals bones...and how their different bones helped them do what they needed to do. A rabbits long foot bone helps it jump...and so on. Then after the children got to pretend they were on a archaelogical dig and see if they could predict what animal they were digging out by pulling out separate paper bones. We are enjoying our collaborative effort with Ms. Whitelaw and are especially enjoying our Steve Jenkins books. We have just finished our art project on Creature Features and a big thank you to Eli J. Who ordered a book from Scholastic and shared it with the class.
On Friday we had a very full day. It started with a presentation from the Vancouver City. It was a funny play called "Clean up your Act". The slapstick comedy talked about the importance of recycling, littering and about doing graffiti. After this we joined our buddy class and talked about sports day and sportsmanship. Yes, next Friday is Sports Day. If you are not going to be here next Friday, please let me know as I will be making up the teams on Monday. I will be giving them their colour. I asked them what colour they had been already so that I dont give them the same colour again. Friday's sports day will go rain or shine..lets hope it will be shine! The children love this day. More information will come out as the week progresses.
If you would like to join us on this day, you are more than welcome.
For art we did Ben's FAVORITE are project EVER...and it was our abstract Miro project. Every year to honour sports day we do our stick figure paintings. For some reason this is a favorite of many children. You will see them adorning our walls very soon and then see why it is not only Ben's but others as well.
With that...
Have a great day...
we have a busy week of math, reading and writing ahead of us...hopefully we will have a healthy bunch of children with no chicken pox or any other "interesting" rashes.
Take care,
Teri
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| We asked the Mandrill and three other animals some interesting questions...the children answered for them and then did these colourful pictures in the style of Steve Jenkins. |
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Hey vulture...why don't you have feathers on your face??? That is the question asked of the vulture.
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| Whenever we start a new subject area, we talk about prior knowledge..what do we already know. |
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| Our beautiful butterflies adorn our wall. |
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| After reading Franklin's story....about being a team player, we brainstormed phrases that we can say during sports day to cheer each other on! Then did cute pictures of ourselves on sports day! |
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| If we say all these wonderful things we will have a great sports day!! |
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