Author: laij

Shadow Art

We took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent the afternoon drawing and painting with light and shadow!

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What is your Rainbow?

Share Your Rainbow is a book inspired by children displaying rainbows on their windows to show their love and support for healthcare workers and frontline workers during the pandemic.  These rainbows represent caring for one another and our hopes for the future.  With the virus restrictions and the hope to stay safe and well, it means we can’t gather with our friends and family, celebrate milestones like we used to or travel.  With hopes in our hearts, we built our rainbow with loose parts.  In our collection of rainbows, you’ll see friends playing in each other’s homes, going on a vacation with family, going on an Easter egg hunt, petting dogs and sharing ice cream with friends.  What is your rainbow?

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Easter Fun

 

Division 10 had a busy day decorating eggs with natural materials and gems and making mandalas with Spring flowers and leaves! We also had an Easter Egg Hunt organized by the PAC.  It was definitely a fun filled day! Hope everyone had a great Easter long weekend!

Animals that Hibernate

 

Our class ended our Winter theme unit by building homes for some of the animals that hibernate in the winter time.  Each table group chose their animal(s), gathered materials and then built the home together.  We were so impressed with how everyone worked collaboratively and helped each other out!

Hunting for Animal Tracks

 

We had so much fun looking for “animal tracks” in our little forest area! We first looked at what animal tracks we might find and then each table group was responsible to find two sets of tracks.  Afterwards, each team read a short animal tracks booklet to help them match the tracks to the right animal.  Then they had to find the “animal” in the classroom.  Everyone worked so well together and accomplished the goal as a team! 

Rain and Snow Experiment

 

With a little imagination, we were able to make it rain and snow in our classroom! First, we poured water into a large bowl. Second, we added a few layers of shaving cream to the water.  The shaving cream is the cloud.  We talked about how clouds are formed from a process called evaporation (when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam). The water vapor or steam goes into the air forming clouds. Lastly, we added food colouring. We pretended it was rain/snow. When water droplets grow heavy enough and depending on the temperature, rain or snow will fall.   We had so much fun watching those clouds!

 

 

 

Winter Break Stories

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Welcome back, families! We hope you all had a wonderful and restful holiday. All our friends had so many stories to share with each other and their teachers.  To share our favourite winter break story, we used loose parts such as gems, rocks, sticks, wooden pegs etc. to build our story.  We took pictures of their story and then they each recorded their favourite winter break moment orally! Our storytellers cannot wait to share their stories with you!   

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