Mud Painting

At recess time the students were observed with sticks, a small puddle of water and some mud. When questioned, they said they were mud painting. So we introduced some paper and the students spent the lunch hour creating masterpieces with mud. 

The Stairs

An adventure in building this morning turned in to this staircase being built and tested. The boys said that it wasn't safe enough because the stairs kept moving when they were trying to climb. A discussion ensued about how a staircase is built and how it doesn't move in their house. In the afternoon, they recreated the staircase and then created a game. The rules stated that you could only go up two steps and then you had to try and toss the car car into the hole at the end. Later they placed a small log at the end and the goal was to try and land their car on the top of the log. At one point, they were measuring the distance from the stair to the end, trying to determine how much they had to move it closer to the stairs before someone would get it in.

Planting

The students have started talking about the plants that they are seeing growing outside. We have have started looking at the plant life cycle. They asked if they could start some plants. So we have beans, carrots, flowers and tomatoes started. Some are started in plastic bottles, some in cups and some in cartons. Thank you to Jesse for bring in the bottles for us to use. They have become aware of recycling, reusing and reducing from the stories that we are reading in class. They are really trying hard to lessen the garbage in their lunches too.

Our Visit from the Paramedics

Easter Fun

The Easter Bunny

Our visit from the Fire Fighters

Flags of the World

A while back, flags of the world were being researched. Look at the great work that has been done so far.

The Band

Yesterday some of the students started to make musical instruments. Today we brought in some musical instruments for the students to see and use. Although noisy, there was some great music being created. The interest in instruments continues to grow so we will explore them more of the coming days. 

Bernstein Bears

Continuing with our healthy eating discussions, Miss. Sokol read this story with the class today. The students are talking about healthy foods and the food groups while at lunch and snack. They are teaching each other. The question that was debated today was Are French fries and chocolate milk healthy or not?

App of the Day . letter tracing

This is free app that the students may use to trace the letters, name the letters and their sounds. When the students use a stylus, they practice the pencil grip and it is just liking writing on paper. Great free app.

Play doh Fun - Baking cookies for Grandmas House

The group of students at the play doh centre were busy baking cookies for Grandmas birthday. They were chocolate cookies. They were working as a family (Mom and two children) that were busy baking cookies for Grandmas house. When they were finished, they packed up the car to take the long trip to Grandmas house.

App of the Day - Grandma Loves Bugs

 

The students loved using the app Grandma loves Bugs today. It was great for spelling, information on different bugs and counting.

The Gingerbread Man

At play-doh I made a car and gingerbread man. Then It was decided that he needed as house and a garage. Off went the student to the magnetic blocks to construct those things. Now the Gingerbread Man is happily living in his new home. It's neat that how months later the students will retell stories that they heard before.