Making Snow!

Since it did not snow as expected, we decided to make our own snow in the classroom!

We used shaving cream and white liquid glue. The students used their fingers to make snowballs and then they each made a snowman!

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The story Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert is about the Leaf Man drifting around and it visited many places and saw a lot of animals. We don’t know where the Leaf Man is going because it goes where the wind blows. After reading the story, we went on a nature walk and created our own leaf person or creature. As the children were building their leaf person/creature, we heard some interesting stories of where their leaf creations have gone and what they have seen and done! A few leaf people went to the North Pole to look for Santa. Another leaf person went to outer space. And then a leaf butterfly was too sticky, so the wind couldn’t blow it away! We also had a leaf family hanging out at the park! These leaf creations can be anywhere. Look around next time when the wind is blowing. You might see a leaf person drifting by.

Fall Walk

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On our first nature walk, we explored signs of fall. We read a story called “Wonderfall”. The story follows a single tree through the changing seasons. While we were reading the story, we noticed the tree drops acorns, loses leaves and provides food and a home for a pair of squirrels. Before heading out to explore fall, we brainstormed what we might find using one of our senses, sight. We predicted that we might see leaves changing colours, leaves falling, acorns, apples, caterpillars, squirrels, people wearing jackets and scarves, wind, the sun, and clouds. During our nature walk, the first thing we discovered were falling leaves. We also found a caterpillar on an abandoned frisbee! We didn’t see any squirrels gathering acorns, but we did find some apples under an apple tree.

On our second nature walk, we gathered leaves and decided to sort them by colours to make it easier to see what we had found. We identified the colours we needed and placed coloured construction paper mats in brown, red, green, orange and yellow on the floor. Then we sorted! Stay tuned for our next post. We will be creating our own fall colour!

We also made patterns on our nature walk too!