100 Day Activities!

We lined up 100 shoes in the hallway!  We estimated how long the line would go down the hallway! We practised counting by 2's and 1's all the way to 100.

Some friends used the number chart to count and recognize numbers to 100.

10 dots in 10 circles makes 100!  Some children were counting by tens!

Thank You!

Our art area is booming once again! A big thank you to Ashley's family for donating these great odds and ends! Please keep sending anything you may not want to use at home because the children create so many beautiful things with them!  Our boxes keep coming in too! Thank you for your help!

Our Table Top Activities!

Here the children roll 2 dice.  A colour dice and a number dice?  One of our friends just rolled 3 purple.  Now she will use the purple dabber and add 3 purple dots on her page!

Below one of the girls is rolling a dice and hiding the number that corresponds with what she rolled.

Below one friend is discovering what is magnetic in the sand table.

We are using different sorting rules to sort the bears.....by colour....by size??

After reading the story Snowballs some friends decided to create their own snow creature using shaving cream and glue!  I made a snowman!

Measuring Distance

We investigated ramps in the classroom last week.  We discovered we needed more room to allow the balls to roll.  We compared how far different balls went in the hallway. The children discovered that smooth balls roll farther on smooth surfaces.  Then we tested if taller ramps made balls roll farther, and they did.  We even made a graph of our results.  

We moved our lesson to the hallway so that the balls could travel farther.

We made ramps using blocks and boards.

The beach ball went a shorter distance than the utility ball.

The children watched and were excited to see if their predictions were right.

We conducted a survey to see which ball the children thought would go the longest distance.

Our second investigation was to see which ball would go the longest distance.  We discovered that the the rubber ball and the plastic ball went about the same distance when the ramp was one block high.  However, when the ramp was two blocks high, the rubber ball went much farther. We counted the bricks on the wall to see which went the the farthest.

Measuring our Snowgirl!

Mrs. Shepley brought in some snow and she and the children built a snowperson together, the children picked items from around the classroom to use as eyes, arms, nose, mouth and hair.

The children helped build a snowperson.

They decided that the snowperson was going to be a snowgirl, we used cubes to measure how tall she was, the children estimated then we counted, she was 17 cubes tall.  We had the children make predictions about what would happen to our snowgirl.

The Snowgirl began to melt and she lost her nose first, and because the surface she was on was tilted, she slid over.

She was starting to get shorter

She lost her mouth, we moved her back over, we were afraid she might fall off the table.

At the end of the day, she had lost her eyes and she was 3 cubes shorter!

In the morning, this is what was left of our snowgirl, just a puddle and the things that we added.  The children were excited to discover what happened!

We're Baking!

Something new has been added to the play dough centre!  A stove!  Some friends are busy baking cakes and pies for the whole class!

Another Great Discovery!

The students were discovering that it was taking a long time to fill the cups up to the top using the eye droppers.  They experimented with different ideas.  They used 2 and 3 eye droppers and noticed that they were able to put more water.  We thought about what we could do to make it even faster and one friend came up with the idea of getting a bigger eye dropper.  Great thinking!