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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Cherry Blossoms

Cherry blossoms are such a welcome sign of Spring. We are so fortunte to have beautiful white and pink cherry blossoms outside our school!  Last week, we went outside and studied these trees.

We decided to paint some cherry trees. First, we painted a dark blackground. We used black and white with shades of gray. Next, we painted the wider tree trunks with thin tree branches. Finally, we used cotton swabs to create different colored cherry blossoms.

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Here is what our hallway bulletin looks like:

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! 

Valentine’s Day Estimation Jar

Estimation can be a difficult concept for young kids to understand. Most of them seemed to care only about getting “the right answer.” For one of our Valentine’s Day activities, students had to guess how many fruit snacks are in this jar! We discussed how estimation can be a valuable skill to have in real life and guessing numbers that are close to the actual amount means it is a “good guess”. After looking at the size of one fruit snack and comparing this to other items we have estimated, all students agreed that it could not be 1000… or 100.  They also agreed that it could not be 0, 1 or 5, or even 10.

Here are our guesses:

After counting them, we found out there were 22 fruit snack packs in the jar! Nice work, everyone!