We ate on chairs We ate on stairs We ate in a tree And with good company We ate on a hill It was such a thrill We sure love our picnics. The weather couldn't have been more gorgeous ALL week! We tried to take advantage of it with lots of outdoor literacy activities... running to our dictée words as Madame yelled them out, spelling while kicking and throwing a ball, hangman, etc. We have also been practicing for a French play that we plan to perform in the next month or so. We took our rehearsal outdoors and ended up with some curious audience members from other classes. In Math, we have begun a unit on measurement. In Kindergarten and Grade 1, we don't yet begin to use standard units for measurement (ex. centimetres, inches...) but we introduce the concept of measurement with non-standard units. We started the week by measuring the length of the classroom with our bodies. We estimated how many people we thought it would take and some of us were quite surprised by the actual answer. Would the number be the same if we measured with babies? How about with full-grown adults? We realized that our bodies can actually be great measurement tools because we always have them with us! Ears and knees don't work so well for measuring, but hands and feet are great! We enjoyed going around the classroom and using our hands to measure all kinds of things (even our friends!), and then comparing our results with students that have smaller hands or bigger hands. The problem with using our hands, we found, was that not everybody has the same sized hands so it was difficult to trust our results. We needed a unit of measurement that was always the same size. ...enter the cubes! In Science, we continue to monitor our tadpoles closely every day, always looking for signs of them sprouting little legs. Here is a super cool little documentary, filmed in BC, that we watched in class today about tadpole migration... And some other fun photos... A new pencil holder was born!... Some of us have been super diligent savers with our classroom money and were able to buy some big-ticket items today!
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