Mrs. Shepley and Mrs. Hawkins

Monday, January 19, 2015

Should We Eat Snow?

Today we noticed lots if friends picking up snow during recess time to lick it or eat it so we decided to see what we are putting in our mouth. We melted a pile of snow from outside. We discovered that snow is very dirty and it's not a good idea to put snow in our mouths.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

How To Do Ballet

For Show-and-Tell today one of our friends brought her ballet costume to school and taught us some ballet moves. We created a story using the first,then, next and finally board to do dance. She will have this centre for other students who are interested in learning about ballet next week!

Show-and-Tell

We are focusing on the words "can" and "do" during show-and-tell. Megan showed us that she can draw a person. Megan explained the steps using the first, then, next and last vocabulary. We developed a story board. Megan became a centre the next morning. Below, some of our friends are visiting her centre to learn about how to draw a person!

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Ice Time

Today we did some experiments in the classroom to determine if water freezes faster in the freezer or outside. The children signed a survey to make a prediction as to which would be faster. Then we placed cold tap water and hot tap water in the freezer and outside to see which would freeze faster. We were surprised that it only took 15 minutes for the ice to start form! Then we conducted an experiment to see how we could make ice melt faster.

Our survey.

Our outside water.

Our freezer water.

Our monitoring chart.

The temperature in the freezer.

The temperature outside.

Our ice melting experiment, we left one out without touching it, we put heat (a blowdryer), salt on one, and Logan blew on one. We found the ice with the blowdryer melted the fastest, the one Logan blew on was 2nd fastest the one with salt was next and the one left on it's own barely melted at all.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Our New Centres!

Making hot chocolate! Yes! Those are real marshmallows

The water centre is the Arctic!

The children have been very interested and discussing whales! We will begin a study on whales!

What repels and attracts at the sand centre? We have magnetic wands in there! The children are noticing that some particles in the sand are magnetic too!