We had a visit from Mike’s Critters where he brought some amphibians (meaning they can live on land and in the water) and reptiles!

Mike brought two types of frogs, a toad, a turtle, a tortoise, two types of lizards, a skink, two types of snakes, and an alligator’s head to share with us! We learned about their habitats, what they like to eat, and their survival techniques.

Thank you Mike for bringing your critters to visit!

As part of our Applied Design, Skills and Technologies (ADST) curriculum, we have been exploring multiple challenges and creative activities that encourage us to work together and problem solve as a group. Here, we were given the task of building a “classroom” out of Lego in our small groups and had to collaboratively construct a classroom using the materials provided in the 10 minutes we were given. This taught us about sharing our ideas and how all of us have great ideas we can share with each other and develop some cool creations!

We have been learning about light, sound, and heat energy! We did a big brainstorm on different sources of light, sound and heat and drew/wrote them on our large whiteboards in the classroom. We talked about the difference between natural and human made sources, and how some things can be sources of two things! For example, a campfire is a source of light and heat.

We practiced using our knowledge of warm-toned colours and created our own tree landscape art pieces!

We have been learning about apples and some different types of apples we can find at our local grocery stores. We had a taste test where we tried five different types (Pink Lady, Honeycrisp, McIntosh, Gala, and Ambrosia. We talked about the different characteristics of the apples and how they differ from each other. Once we casted our votes and rated them out of 5, we made a graph to show our data and talked about what information we can gather from our results! Yum!

We have been working on expressing our feelings using the colours of the Zones of Regulation. We read the story “Crankenstein” by Samantha Berger, talking about when you’re feeling cranky and the different situations that may make you feel this way. We then did a writing activity where we talked about what makes us cranky and how we can feel better.

We’ve been learning about different types of graphs and how we can interpret the data we receive, through making comparisons and observing patterns. We have started to do a survey a day, and here is the one we talked about today! Here, we did a survey about our favourite colours and recorded this in a tally chart, formatted in two different ways.

We created some spooky mummies using chalk pastel to create eyes and ripping tracing paper to create the bandages!

After learning about the weather and seasonal changes, we have transitioned into learning about the water cycle. We talked about the different parts of the cycle and how they can be seen when we look outside.

We learned about the difference between warm and cool colours and created this pumpkin art by colouring in a grid, showing the contrast between the warm and cool colours!