Category: Theme Activities

Exploring Plants

We have begun our exploration of all things plants. Students planted seeds into little pots – they had a choice of four different seed types: Cosmos, Forget-Me-Knots, Zinnias, and Asters.

We put soaked overnight Lima beans into Ziplock bags with paper towels and taped them to our classroom windows.  We hope to see growth soon.  A few are looking promising, as of this afternoon.

We did an experiment with white flowers and celery placed into jars of water. One was the ‘control’ – meaning that it was just in clear water. Two other jars had food colouring (one blue and one red) with celery and white flowers in them.  Another set had one large bunch of flowers with one stalk that was divided into two jars, one with red and one with blue food colouring.


Students noticed that the food colouring had moved up the stems into the leaves and the flowers.

We also planted peas into a large pot.  Most were planted on the right-hand side of the pot straight out of the package.  On the left we soaked the peas overnight.  Our objective is to see which side grows first / fastest.


We will be continuing with our explorations tomorrow … stay tuned …

Arts Alive – “Out of this World” – what excites us …

For this biennial event, from the Burnaby Art Gallery, we started by reading a storybook called, “Dream You’ll Be”, by Joseph T. Garcia.  We had a few discussions on things that we like and those that excite us – maybe exciting enough to pursue as a career.

Students then did a ‘draft’ drawing of their ‘exciting thing’ before making their ‘good’ copy.  The grade two girls prepared the canvas (the required size by the BAG of 18”x24”) with paint.  They were given black, blue, purple, and white.  This was their result …




After all the students completed their final planet Saturns (what excites them), the grade two boys glued them onto the canvas.

Now it looks like this …

I will deliver it to the Burnaby Art Gallery next week.  They prepare all the art pieces, from the classes at schools who choose to participate, for proper display. We will all be invited to the Grand Opening Night.  I will let you know when it is.  It is usually in April.

I will share the students’ “artist statements” via an email.  They were very thoughtful in what they chose and how they said it.

100’s Day Busy-ness

We had a great 100’s Day.   Mrs. Temple had a baggie of 100 M&M candies. This is how they balanced out. We all got to eat five of them 🤤

Then there were three jars of candies.  We had to guess which one had the most.  Most thought that Jar B had the most. We found out that that all  three jars had the same number – 100 🤔

We had fun making Fruit Loop necklaces by doing ten groups of ten alternating colours.



We made twenty groups of five-set tally marks on our 100 Day crown headbands.

To see us all in our crowns / necklaces check out your parent email.

Here are our 100’s Day collections on the bulletin board in the hallway.




We are still working on our 100’s Day booklets.  These should be done tomorrow.