It has been a long time since my last update but part of the reason is because so much has been happening both in and out of our classroom.
In Science we have been studying about plants and animals and their observable features. We witnessed almost the entire life cycle of a butterfly when we first brought in tiny caterpillars that ate and ate and ate until they formed their chrysalides and eventually emerged as beautiful butterflies. Most of the annex took a quick walk over to Willingdon Park to release them but they didn’t fly off immediately so many of the class were able to have them sit on their hand before they fluttered away. One of the common things that could be heard was how much their tiny feet tickled as they walked along our palms.
Butterflies were not the only thing that we have been able to observe. Last week we had a visit from the Poulty in Motion truck. It is a mobile poultry “barn” that our class was able to visit and see some 7 day old and 5 week old chickens. Some students mentioned that they remembered seeing the chicken coops at the PNE so it was a neat experience to have them come and visit us at school. It was also neat to be able to go and observe the chicken eggs in their incubator in Ms. Hardie’s class as both her and Ms. Laity’s classes are trying to hatch chicks in their rooms.
We are now anxiously awaiting our visit from the Mobile Dairy that will be coming to visit us this week and also our potatoes that we have been growing in and outside of our classroom are ready to harvest. If the weather cooperates we hope to harvest them and get to eat some of them this week!
Lots of great learning has been happening even though the school year is quickly coming to an end. I can hardly believe we have only two more weeks left!
Ms. Pasqualetto :0)