Shadow Art

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

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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:

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!

Literacy Week

We had a fun literacy week!  We listened to daily stories – read-alouds recorded by different staff members. Thank you parents for participating in the Family Bingo!

Students all did an amazing job on their bookmarks!  Congratulations to Everett who won the library prize.

Thank you to Ms. Sanchez for creating this campfire for our “Reading in the Dark” literacy day.

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!