We are seeing GROWTH from our seedlings! Inquire with your scientist how our experimental seedlings are doing. Is there any growth from the seedling that is growing without sunlight; no soil; and no water? So far, are your predictions correct or incorrect?

 

 

 

Friday Math Games – always a delight! Again, students continue to practice their foundational math skills, focusing on various formats of adding and subtracting with numbers 1-10 and 1-20. My favourite quote from today after we cleaned up our math games was “when are we doing math?” I smiled and asked them what they were just doing, the student responded by saying “well I know we were doing mathhhh, but it was so fun and like a game, so that can’t really be math!” SURPRISE! Learning through play can always be fun, that is just one reason why I love math games. Students are practicing and utilizing their number sense and addition and subtraction facts without even noticing. I have also witnessed many students gain confidence within themselves and their ability as they strengthen their mental math strategies and their number facts.

Social Studies: 

To begin, students analyzed the photographs on the board and were encouraged to see if they noticed a pattern or theme amongst the photographs. In a flash, students quickly caught on to the theme that some photographs involved humans and other photographs did not. We decided to categorize the photographs into Human Impact vs Natural Disasters. We then passionately began selecting four topics from Human Impact and four topics from Natural Disasters that we wanted to record in our flapbook. Stay tuned for the final result!

   

Art: 

Any guesses what we are creating in Art this week? A hint is that we are inspired by the artwork in the story from “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle. It was a big task creating our painting, demonstrating patience as it dried and anxiously awaiting to complete our next step which is putting it all together. The students marvelled at the great reveal when they opened up their paper to see the symmetric design that was created. Stay tuned!