Look who came to visit!

Teko is an exotic animal!  He's like a flying squirrel!  He likes honey, chicken, fruits and vegetables! We learned that he is nocturnal!  

Outdoor Learning!!!

Tossing bean bags!  

Our parade!  

House area!

Building!!

Gassing up!

Creating a path!

Flying kites!

Climbing and enjoying!!!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Last week we read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We then acted out the story using a tree and large foam letters. The children had fun listening and learning!  We will continue to work on letter recognition and matching up lower case and upper case letters.  

The book.

Our very own coconut tree, filled with letters!

The letters all fell from the tree!

The children had to "rescue" their letters!

                            

                               

This week we have a table top version for the children to use to retell the story!

                                 

Terry Fox Day

Last Friday our school held our annual Terry Fox Run. Over $350 was raised for cancer research. Our students took part in our warm up, walk, shoe decorating and watched a video on the story of Terry Fox.  Our own Mrs. Shepley lead the warm up and the kids had a blast! Below is a link to the story in the Rivertown Times and a link to the ESPN story about Terry Fox we watched in class: 

Terry Fox Video--You Tube


Rivertown Times Story

S is for Skittle

We were talking about the letter S this week.  Mrs. Shepley found a very cool experiment using Skittles.  The children discovered that if skittles were soaked in water they colour came off and the letter S actually floated to the top! 

Below you will is the link for the experiment if you'd like to try it at home!

 

 

Skittle Experiment Link

 

 

The children chose the colour they wanted to use for their own experiment.

The children waited patiently and then they all put their skittle into the petri dish at the same time.

The watched the colour come off of the skittle. Rosie said "We're scientists!"

Then they saw the floating letter S.  We didn't get a photo of that!

 

Then the children wondered what colour would be made if they were all mixed together. Some guesses were: Rainbow, black, orange and brown.  The bowl below shows all of the mixed colours.

Toad or Frog?

On Tuesday Norah found this little creature on our playground.  We brought him into the classroom and decided to study him for a little while.  The children wondered if it was a frog or a toad.  We did some research on the Smartboard and found out some of the differences between the two. 

 Then we did a survey and the children voted on which they thought our animal was.

Each child had a chance to place their name card onto the side they thought was right.

Then we counted and discovered more children thought our animal was a toad than a frog. 
                                                                            

 

The following day we set out more items to continue our research the differences and similarities between frogs and toads. 

 

Then we sang the song "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" and the children lead by Matteo acted out the song on our climbing log outside.

Outdoor Learning

While the weather is so beautiful we are going to try to maximize our outdoor learning time.  The children enjoyed spending time outdoors while exploring a few different activities.