Learning in our community!

What an exciting start back from spring break!

We started our week with some Wishtree, and made our very own key necklaces, just like Samar got from Bongo. We had some amazing conversations about inclusion, discrimination, racism, standing up for others, and kindness. We also had lots of fun thinking of the names we would like if we were a baby skunk (our favourite smell).

This week, we took our math learning outside to measure everything we could find! We noticed changes throughout the week and discovered certain tools worked better than others. We are improving our estimation skills and learning about different referents. We can’t stop measuring! We even found measurement math at our SFU science workshops!!

Our first SFU science workshop was all about the food webs of kelp forests! We learned how kelp forests are homes to many interesting creatures, and that it is important to have balance in the ecosystem. Some interesting vocabulary we learned was that while trees have leaves; kelp have blades, trees have trunks and kelp have stipe; trees have roots, while kelp have holdfasts! What interesting things can you share with your family?

One of our favourite parts of this workshop was creating Play Doh sculpures of animals that live in kelp forests! We kept creating with Ms. Carley’s loose parts and Play Doh back at school this week!

Our second SFU workshop was all about insects! We learned about how they communicate, their body parts, their senses, and other interesting facts! We also learned how we can support pollinators in our community – some ways were planting native species, not mowing lawns and keeping leaf litter. Can you find any insects this weekend as the weather gets warmer?

Today was International Day of Trans Visibility and we loved reading Introducing Teddy to start our conversation about recognizing, celebrating, and respecting each other.

We started writing poetry this week! Here are a few of our very first poems of the year! We were inspired to write poems about our warblers and other amazing creatures we have been learning about! Can you write a poem about something that inspires you this weekend? Feel free to post it in the comments, if you’d like!