This Week In Our Classroom!!

We are washing dishes at the water table.  As the dishes were put up to dry some of our friends sorted the dishes by colour.  We discussed sorting the dishes as a large group and we came up with 4 different ways to sort the dishes. 

1.  By shape
2.  If it had a circle or not
3.  By colour
4.  By the beginning sound

Great ideas!! 

Mrs. Speed Came For a Visit Today!!

What a nice surprise to have Mrs. Speed back in our classroom today.  She made playdough with some of the students!!

We decided to make cupcakes today out of playdough.  We got the idea this morning because Ava showed us her new shirt and it has a picture of a big cupcake!! 

Snail House!!

Miss Frame brought in a piece of styrofoam and put it at the painting centere to see what the children could do with it.  Off to work they went and they decided to make a house for the snails!!

The snail house is now painted but wait.........

Hanna and Leandra decided to add doors, windows, a bed, a couch and a tv for the snails!!

Other friends went outside to get some grass to put inside of the snail house!!  We had fun watching them crawl all around their new house today! 




Today we are saying good-bye to Miss Frame.  We have really enjoyed having her in the classroom.  Thanks for many creative ideas Miss Frame.  We will miss you!!

She made pudding today with the children!!

What's Been Going on in Early Years this Week!!!

Snails!!

The children were exploring the snails as they raced.  They were using a magnifying glass to watch and make discoveries about the snails.  They found out the snails can move faster than they thought and they like cabbage.  The children came up with names for the snails which included Speedy, Super, Baby Star, Sasquatch, Lizzy and Teeny.  Speedy won the race!! 


Planting!!

Our sand table has trasformed into a planting station.  Here Logan and Nathan are planting flowers in the dirt.  Logan says we can call the dirt soil too.  Nathan explains that we need water and sun and dirt to make the flowers grow. 




Worms!!

The children were prdicting where the worms would end up after being placed in the middle.  There were 3 choices of food for the worms; dirt, compost and paper.  The worms did go to the dirt and one of the worms crawled to the banana peels.  It was funny to watch the worm crawl under the banana peel.  Hailey, Leandra, Jamie, Kyle, Cameron, Brianna, and Hanna enjoyed picking the worms up and feeling them crawl in their hands.  We can tell which end is the head because it is pointier. Hailey was very involved in all of the worm discoveries this week and she stated that worms need to stay in wet, dark places to survive.  They like to eat dirt!!  Great observations!!!!

Worms are in the Classroom Again!!!

We are making predictions using worms.   Below, we covered one side of the box with white paper and the other side with dark paper.  We put the worms in the middle and the children are predicting which side the worms will choose.

The children were busy watching and making a prediction!!

Erin drew a picture of her prediction.  She thinks the worms will go to the dark side because worms live in dirt and dirt is dark. 

Nathan wrote the words dark and light.  He predicted that the worms will choose the dark side too!!  We will be watching to find out!!

School is Fun!!!

Painting our hands!

Painting with our fingers!!

Creating at the art table.  Xavier made a parachute.

Carter made a drum!

Nathan made a stage and he was performing in a one-man band!!

Making bird feeders!! 

Hailey's experiment.  Do not touch.  We were discussing absorption and repelling at the science table.  Hailey noticed that the water repelled on the foam piece.  She came up with an idea!!  She said:  "maybe if we leave the water on top for a day it will absorb into the foam."  She is testing it to see if it works!! 

Spring Has Sprung in the Classroom!!!!

Some friends are making bird nests!!

We made bird feeders.  We check everyday to see what the birds like to eat.  So far they ate the strawberries. 

We made predictions about what kind of cereal the birds will prefer....Cheerios or Fruit Loops

Below, one of the students was playing at the bird centre and she had her bird sitting on the eggs.  I asked her what she was doing and she told me that the bird has to sit on the eggs to make them warm and then the baby birds will hatch.  Hers hatched!!!

Free exploration at the science table!!!

We are still waiting with excitment to see what will hatch out of the egg.  Some of the children are changing their predictions now that we can see some of the inside.  Alligator is a popular prediction.

Cameron brought in a science experiment that he did at home.  We had to guess what is hidden inside of the ice.