Day: 8 November 2018

Remembrance Day

Our school will be holding our assembly tomorrow at 10:45 a.m.  All are welcome to attend.

Here are our poppies on our bulletin in the hallway.  The large ones were created through a directed drawing lesson.  Once the poppies were drawn, students traced over the pencil lines with china markers.  They then painted the red and green on the poppies.  These dried over the weekend.  This week we re-traced the china marker, cut them out, and glued them onto green construction paper.  They all did a great job!

The smaller poppies are made from four layers of coloured (red and green) construction paper.  We did these with our big buddies on Tuesday.  It was great to see the buddies working together!  These small poppies are a lovely complement to the larger, painted ones.  Check them out when you get a chance.

What We KNOW or Think We Know …

We had a brainstorming session where the students talked with their partners and came up with things that they knew, or thought they knew, about bats.  All answers were accepted.  As we learn about bats we will confirm or debunk these thoughts and ideas.

Students then came up with a list of questions that they want to know about bats.

These will form the basis of our inquiry into bats.  We are currently reading, “Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats”.  So far students have learned that bats eat mosquitoes (so they won’t bite us) and help protect crops for farmers by eating grasshoppers, moths, and other bugs.  The Little Brown Bat can eat 600 mosquitoes in one hour!