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To celebrate year of the tiger we participated in a directed drawing activity with Ms. Khouri.

Ms. Manky came up with this fun art activity where the kids needed to use teamwork to create a blob monster. Here are the steps we followed: Paint a blob using water colours. Dance around the room to GoNoodle to wait for the blobs to dry. Once the blobs were dry we grabbed a marker, … Continue reading »

To continue our conversation around motion, specifically with the idea of “pushing” and “pulling”, we had lots of fun mixing primary colours together to make secondary colours using magnets. 1 large magnet under the paper and a small magnet on top of the paper. As the kids moved the magnets around using pushing and pulling … Continue reading »

As we have been talking a lot about force and motion in the classroom, Div. 12 and Div. 13 explored some materials outside. We brought out some race cars, Keva blocks, and some ramps and balls to do some investigating. I wonder what the kiddos found out, or what new questions might they have?

Last week for literacy week, we were lucky to have Mr. Hiltz come in to be our guest reader. He chose to read us the story called Red A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall.

The kids demonstrated their ability to follow directions using words and images in this engaging painting activity.

Today we began our investigation of motion using ramps. Some vocabulary we will hopefully know by the end of our inquiry: motion, gravity, force, ramps, machines. Some questions that may guide us with our investigations (these will most likely change over time as the kids begin to ask their own questions): How can you make … Continue reading »

It was so much fun getting messy with our big buddies to make ornaments for the school tree!