Our Snow Families

When you come to the Christmas concert tomorrow, check out our art pieces on the bulletin board outside of the classroom. We spent several days, in many stages, creating representations of our families as snow people. Here they are:

Gingerbread Houses

We had a great afternoon today building our gingerbread houses. Students worked on skills such as planning, structures, and decoration. Students also showed their incredible generosity as they freely shared resources amongst themselves.

A huge thank you to Jen for coming in to help out!!

All About Me Robots / My Name

As we are wrapping up our unit on self-discovery we have finished off the last two activities. The first was our All About Me Robots. Students needed to decide and state their preferences in a number of different areas.

The second activity was putting together all the bits about our names. This included the sheet that was sent home for family input.

Our bulletin board did not manage to accommodate all of this work so we have some mounted on our white board underneath our Word Wall.

Who Am I?

As part of our Social Studies unit we have been exploring our sense of self. Students created these wonderful word and picture maps that depict themselves and things that are important to them.

They worked very thoughtfully and put in a great effort to ensure a very fine finished product! Here they are individually:

These are mounted on the bulletin board at the back of our classroom.

We are thankful for …

After discussing Thanksgiving, and all that it means, we brainstormed things that we are thankful for. Students worked in partnerships to create these lovely thoughts.

I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!!

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🦃

Nutrition – Four Food Groupings

We wrapped up our unit on Nutrition with a small group collage project. Students worked in groups of four or five to cut pictures from grocery flyers to represent the foods in their category. These were glued onto chart paper and are seen below:

The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

After reading The Lorax, we brainstormed ideas that the Once-ler should have done to protect the environment and nature. Devastation happened to the area because of the Once-ler’s greed. Students then chose one of our ideas, or wrote one of their own. These were written onto Truffula tree templates. All of these can now be seen on the bulletin board in the hallway,

Yertle, the Turtle – and a few friends

As part of our unit on Dr. Seuss we looked at a variety of real turtle shells online. Students then created and designed their own turtle shells (top and bottom) out of paper plates. These turtles are now gracing our bulletin board in our classroom.

Animal Habitat Dioramas

Students began by looking through science books and thinking about what sort of animal they were interested in studying. They then looked at the sort of habitat in which their chosen animal would survive.

Students created their animal out of plasticine of various colours, due to our supply, and then learned how to meld the correct colour of plasticine as a coating on top. They used photos of their animals as their models. They did a great job!

The inside of the shoe boxes were painted to represent the parts of their habitat (sky, grass, jungle, desert, etc.). Students decided what they needed to complete their habitats. I got various supplies for them (coloured papers, coloured plasticine, liquid glue, hot glue gun) and they collected natural materials (sticks, stones, sand).

I enjoyed watching their creations develop. They are now completed and on display along the window ledge in the Library. You can see them there if you are attending the Volunteer Tea tomorrow afternoon. I have taken pictures of each which are below.