Learning to care for living things in our classroom.

The children have been taking care of our classroom fish since Mrs. B brought them into our room in October. Throughout the day, many children check in on them.  Some have read stories by them and drew pictures and a new child is chosen to feed the fish each day.

After losing two fish in a week, we decided that we needed to figure out what was happening in our tank. One of our students thought we needed to give them clean water. So Miss McKay brought in a syphon she uses to clean her tanks at home and a small group of children were excited to help out.

WOW, a clean fish tank!  Miss McKay added some Water Snails to help keep our tank clean.

WORMS

Early in November during a misty Outdoor Learning time, a group of students went on a worm hunt with Mrs. DeYoung.  

When we brought in our small collection of worms, the students decided we needed to give them a "Worm House."  

After some research on our classroom iPad, we decided we needed to get them some more dirt, water, rocks and grass. The students said they needed to hide and slither through dirt and grass. They also knew worms liked water because they always found them after it rained.

 

Winter is coming !! Building school bird feeders in our playground.

Winter is around the corner and the weather is getting colder already, please send your child dressed appropriately. 

A group of children gather around to help with our new bird feeders.

Mrs. Taylor is digging the hole for the post, for our bird feeder. The children called the post hole digger, "dirt tweezers!"

The children were excited to see just how far the hole went down.

Thank you Mrs. Taylor for arranging everything to get our bird feeders. 

We used a level to make sure it was ready to put the tray on the top. One student said that was inportant so the food didn't fall off the tray. Another student said it had to be in the middle, even. 

Mr. Taylor finishes the bird feeders off with a cookie sheet to put the seed on.

A Busy October

In September, the children enjoyed working with pipe cleaners, googly eyes, rocks and other small items with the play-dough. They often asked if they could save their creations but we found when the play-dough dried up, their creations would fall apart. We found a salt dough recipe that they could manipulate the same as the play-dough but when dried, they could paint it and it would stay together. A small group of children decided to create some "Creatures"; we have them on display in our classroom and will be sending them home this month.

Outdoor Learning

A group of children were scooping the stones and making Chicken Noodle Soup.

The sandpit in the back of the playground is a popular place where the children gather.  

The children love when we are outside to see garbage and recycle trucks.  The workers will wave and talk with groups of students and educators that gather at the fence each week to watch them work. We are hoping to have them visit us this year. 

This student helped create a stage in our block centre and was very excited to see that we had added some instruments. 

The students enjoy a set of iPads that Mrs. Olafson books for our classroom to use each week. 

This group of students created a house for; "The 3 Little Pigs" in our classroom. 

This student brought in a chestnut and tried several different ways to see what the inside looked like......

After trying to jump and stomp on it and bang it with different sizes of blocks, she decided to try a hammer... 

FINALLY...

"Wow Mrs. DeYoung, it is white inside.  I thought there was a nut inside."
 

Retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Three Little Pigs

The students enjoyed retelling, The Very Hungry Caterpillar with the 3D Flannel Board Characters.

Last week, during Mrs. DeYoung's circle and centre time, the class enjoyed using the masks and instruments to retell the story of; " The 3 Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf".

We used the drums when the wolf knocked on the door.

They used Sand Blocks when the pigs ran away from the Wolf.