Today we celebrated 3 birthdays in our class! We also got some ladybug larva. We get to watch them grow and transform into ladybugs over the next few weeks!

Today we finished up our two day art project! We created little vases filled with cherry blossoms! In the afternoon we got to make healthy wraps! We each got to make our own and fill a tortilla with carrots, cucumbers, peppers, humus, cheese, and ranch! It was so delicious! We then wrote poems about our crunchy, yummy, rainbow wraps.

Today Ms. Shen pranked us for April Fools. We were given a spelling test. Read it from 12 to 1 (backwards)!

Today we learned about healthy eating! We got a special snack of yoghurt and cereal. We also had extra gym time and we participated and followed a workout video with our big buddies! We are learning how to keep our bodies healthy and strong. Our goal is to one day beat Ms. Shen in an arm wrestle. Ms. Shen says it won’t be too hard because we’re all getting so strong!

Today we went out for recess early and played in the fresh snow! After recess we took a community walk to Coffee Loft to deliver the rest of our coffee sleeves! We each got a cookie the size of our faces! It was such a fun community walk in the snow!

Huge thank you to all the parents that make our field trips possible! Not all of you were on the ice, but I appreciate all of you helping to make sure kids are safe on the busses, walking across streets, helping tie skates, and so much more!

Today we focused on kindness. Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day, which is all about kindness and anti-bullying. We started with reading a book about s’mores. It taught us that even though we are all very different like chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers, we can come together to make something amazing. Our colour, shape, and size, don’t matter just like all the parts of a s’more. We then started our project of decorating 200 coffee cup sleeves. Ms. Shen has organized a partnership with Coffee Loft, which is just down the street from our school, to spread kindness to our community! We get to decorate and spread kind messages and the customers at Coffee Loft will get to enjoy our art! In social studies we have been learning about cultures, people, and community. To bring it all together, we want to show our community that they can be kind to everyone around them too! In a couple weeks we will walk over to Coffee Loft and drop off all our artwork!

Ms. Shen LOVES centres because it’s where personalities come out, where students have to collaborate, and where interests form. Today kids were playing lego, trains, go fish, making art, singing to plants, reading, playing doctor, playing kitchen, and marble run. During centres we learn to take turns, learn to share ideas, communicate, and so much more. We have to share our imagination, communicate and decide on rules together, think about our train tracks and where they’re going and how to connect the tracks together, build on each other’s ideas, and so much more. We have to problem solve collaboratively and work together. Students are encouraged to play with other kids rather than on their own. During this time we occasionally have disagreements, get a little wild, but we always have fun and learn.

Videos from Ms. Lo’s Music Class: LINK

We finished learning the water cycle and today we talked about why water is important. To learn more about this, we planted a seed and we will make sure to water it and watch it grow! We also watched some time lapse videos of different plants growing from seeds.