Division 16 is One in a Minion!

Div. 16 has been learning about the autumn (fall) season. When asking them what they see in the fall, many children replied seeing, “leaves fall from trees” or “different coloured leaves”. Students collected different coloured leaves to graph. These same leaves are now at the provocation table for a Leaf Man activity. Students are invited…

Last week in Art, we used our fingers to mimic fall leaves. We learned that leaves in the fall comes in a variety of colours- red, orange, yellow, green, and brown. Come check out our artwork in the classroom!  

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were…

STEM Challenge: Build a gate and put the pumpkins sitting on the gate. Materials: Plastic pumpkins, clothespins, popsicle sticks Task: Without given instructions of how to build a gate, the students kept trying different strategies until their gates stood up by itself with pumpkins sitting on top of them. Connection: Students learned the poem, “5…

Happy Halloween! Enjoy your candy-filled weekend! Here are two fun activities related to Halloween: Halloween Stem Challenge: Challenge: Can you trap the ghost inside a haunted house? Materials: Ghost, paper plate, unifix cubes and snap cubes Challenge accepted! The students were ready to build a haunted house to keep the ghost inside. Look at our…

We have been learning about colours in Science this term. The class was asked to find items with solid colours and sort them into different colour groups. Colour groups were: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, and black. The students enjoyed looking around the classroom and collecting items of various colours. Take a look…

Beware readers! Our pumpkins have exploded! Confetti have flown out of the heads of our pumpkins! Perhaps our pumpkins have too many great ideas!     Please read: I’m curious to see who has been checking the class blog on a daily basis.  If you see this, please write your child’s name and the word…

The students are learning about the autumn season through a variety of ways. One of the things they learned is that many trees lose leaves during this time of year. Leaves fall off of trees and can be red, orange, yellow, green, or brown in colour. Each student collected a leaf and we graphed it…

Do pumpkins sink or float? Hmmmmm… as scientists, we were wondering what happens to a pumpkin when we put it in water. Will it sink to the bottom or float like a boat? We each came up with a hypothesis (fancy science word for “my guess”) and drew our guess. Then we observed what happened…