with Ms. Lai & Ms. Loungsay
We have settled into our new classroom! You can see more photos of inside the classroom in students’ blogfolios (e.g. Fitness Break post).
We wish you and your family a safe and restful Spring Break! While we hope for warmer weather, please enjoy these Spring flowers!
Our class ended our Winter theme unit by building homes for some of our forest animals. Each 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! Great teamwork, Division 12!
Last week was an exciting week! We moved into our new classroom and we are loving our new learning and playing space. It was also kindness week! To show our friends how much we appreciate them, we brainstormed kind words to describe our friends. We also drew a portrait of our friends. Look at all the details and effort we put in to show our friends how much we like them!
Our class has been busy having fun building stories! Story workshop allows learners to explore, create and connect their ideas through play. We have been using loose parts, paint, playdough and blocks to help us develop our ideas. Our class is learning to include characters, different settings, problems and solutions in our stories. We are all becoming great storytellers and we cannot wait to share our stories with you!
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恭禧发财 [gōng xi fā cái]
Division 12 has been having fun exploring 2D shapes and 3D shapes! We learned that shapes have attributes like sides and pointed corners called vertices. Some shapes are round and some are flat. We looked for shapes in the real world, learned how to build and draw shapes and played games with shapes. We also built a 3D structure and used flashlights to sketch the shadow of our structure into a 2D drawing!
Last week our class made some treats for the birds in our Parkcrest park. Ms. Paul brought in suet mixed with seed mix and we covered our pinecones with the mixture. We then went outside and hid the bird treats around our park for the birds to find!
During our nature walk, we found an owl pellet! Pellets are the undigested parts of a bird’s food, such as hair or bones, which are regurgitated (coughed up through the beak). We all thought that was pretty cool!