After reading “The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School” by Laura Murray, we went on a surprise gingerbread man hunt around the school! We had to follow different clues which took us to a new location in the school and then found the gingerbread man in the classroom at the end!
We made our very own holiday cards using different materials (tape, fun scissors, scrapbook paper, markers, ribbon) for the senior home near our school. Everyone made such creative cards that were sure to put a smile on the face of the special person who receives the card!
Division 10 got two new classmates in December. We named them Icicle and Elfred! They did so many silly things around our classroom and were found in different places every morning. We also did a writing activity where we shared about what we would do if we were an elf. Ms. Eisler did a directed drawing with us on how to draw an elf afterwards!
We split up into teams and were given something to build with a bin of Lego we were given. We had to work as a group to share our ideas and create an object Ms. Jung gave the class and only had five minutes to build. Afterwards, we shared our creations and described what we made.
We went on our first field trip to Simon Fraser University where we attended a chemistry workshop and learned about the three states of matter (solid, liquid gas). They made us yummy ice cream using liquid nitrogen and then we got to enjoy our lunch outside in the beautiful weather! Thanks to all of the parent volunteers who took time out of their day to join us!
We got to play with the bee bots and mouse bots and used our knowledge of directions to lead the bees and mice to a landmark. We had so much fun programming them!
We finished our patterns unit with a fun beading activity! Everyone was able to design their own bracelets or keychains on their planning sheet using a type of pattern (AB, ABC, AABB, ABBA). Once we finished our plan, we found the colours we wanted and made our creations.
We read lots of books by Jory John & Pete Oswald (The Good Egg, The Cool Bean, The Sour Grape, The Smart Cookie, The Bad Seed, The Couch Potato, The Big Cheese) and we were inspired to create characters of our own and design a book cover using the style of Pete Oswald’s work.
We have been exploring our community and city with Google Earth! We have visited some familiar places that are often found in a community, like our grocery store, fire station, school, park, mall, and more! We had practice using directions to get from one place to another on Google Earth. We started from Mrs. Chin’s class on Montecito Drive, and went left and right (using the L hand trick!) to get us to Squint Lake Park. I also took some suggestions and took us on a virtual field trip to Disneyland!
We made this beautiful donut bulletin board with our little buddies in Mrs. Chin’s class. Ours are on the left, and Mrs. Chin’s class’ donuts are on the right. We chose our own icing and sprinkle colours and cut out the sprinkles to create some delicious looking donuts!
