The curriculum competencies within science expect that children be able to ask questions and make predictions, make observations and represent these observations by drawing charts and simple pictograghs.

Our question was, “Will an apple sink or float in water?” Most of us predicted that the apple would sink. The results of our test are recorded on the chart below.

Ask me what my prediction was?

Division 8 has been talking about apples.  We know that apples come in many colours.  There are green ones.  There are yellow ones.  And there are lots and lots of red ones!  We decided to conduct an experiment to find out which apple is our favourite – Granny Smith, Red Delicious or Yellow Delicious.  Here we are doing our research. [metaslider id=3966]

These are the results of our experiment.  We discovered that most of the class liked the yellow apples the best.  We also found out that apples are crisp, juicy and sweet/sour.

Ask me what my favourite apple is.

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you.” – Dr. Seuss

Did you just read that and think to yourself, “There is no such word as youer”? Well, that may be true, but Dr. Seuss often made up words in order to express a feeling or idea.  In this quote, he is reminding us that everyone is unique and special.

Introducing Division 8 – a collection of unique and special individuals.

One way we identify ourselves as different is by our name.  The “kindies” are learning to write their names like we do at school – with a capital letter followed by lower-case ones.  We practiced using letter magnets, stamps and tracing.[metaslider id=3965]