Day: 14 May 2012

Plants That We Eat

Students have been learning about the parts of a plant that we eat.  In partners, they used grocery flyers to make collages for: stems, flowers, roots, leaves, seeds, and fruits.

Students really enjoyed this activity.  It quickly became apparent that some of the partnerships had an easier time with this activity as we found that there were more foods which came from certain parts of the plants.

Those partners who worked with ‘fruits’ and ‘seeds’ found a lot more food products from those two groupings.  The most challenging plant part to find foods from was the ‘flower’ group.

When students found a food item that they didn’t need for their own collage they scurried around and gave the pictures to the partnership that did need it.  This was a great collaborative effort by the whole class.

This activity also gave the students a better understanding of our food sources.

C.A.R.E. Kit Lessons

We are nearing the end of our lessons on personal safety.  The students have been actively involved in learning how to stand up for themselves in an assertive manner.  I hope you have taken the opportunity to discuss with your child the lesson papers which have come home at the end of each of our sessions.  It is important that the students are hearing the same message about their personal safety from both their school and their home.  Together we can work to keep the children safe.

Nasturtiums

We have been watching and nurturing our seeds into these plants.    The students decorated these terra cotta pots and then we planted nasturtium seeds.  These will be sent home next week for the students to look after as they develop their flowers.

Texture – An Element of Art

In our continuing lessons on the Elements of Art we have recently been exploring ‘texture’.  Texture is how something feels – or how it looks like it feels.  Students spent some time practising with various everyday items and doing crayon rubbings.  They then created pictures which they segmented and coloured using differently textured plates to create the illusion of different surfaces.