Well hello, sunshine! It DOES still exist! We were more than happy to have the sun shining for our nature walk this week. Due to Spring Break and our Rocky Point field trip, it had been about a month since we had been to Hoffman Park so the students were eager to see if their forts were still standing. Unsurprisingly, the forts had been stripped to the bare bones, but the kids were more than happy to pick up the reins and start again. In fact, the forced restart saw new groups of builders intermingling. Where it was once largely divided into a boys' camp and a girls' camp, the whole class seemed to be mixing more, both during and post-construction, and during their epic fortress battles. In the spirit of Spring, we welcomed a new addition to our classroom - caterpillars! We love watching them try to climb the edges of their containers and we are excited to see them form their cocoons and sprout their wings in several weeks! (Edit, because this is bothering me: the word on the wall behind Graison is supposed to say "je suiS"...apparently an 's' has been erased. I can't handle looking at that. I'm leaving my computer right now to add the "s" back on...) And we can now return to our regularly scheduled blog post. We also got to spend some time with baby chicks! Mme Towne had chicken eggs in her classroom and they have now hatched into adorable, fluffy yellow babies. Today was their last day at school and they are now off to a special sanctuary where they will get to live out the rest of their lives. And it's not just chickens and caterpillars that have been growing around here... our grass heads have also started to sprout! It won't be long before they have full fledged hair-dos. In other exciting academic news, we attempted a Science experiment this week to show how rain is formed, and why it falls from the clouds. If you asked the students, their favourite part of the process was when Mme yelled, "Get back!" and had everyone rush to the back of the room. Alas, mason jars should not be substituted for beakers when placed on a bunsen burner. Thankfully, nothing too exciting actually happened, other than the bottom of the mason jar falling off and watching Mme Van Sickle eat some humble pie. But we learned a valuable lesson...and then brought in our good friend "YouTube" to show us what was supposed to happen. We also got to see blue food colouring fall through shaving cream, demonstrating how rain is heavier than clouds and when the water droplets inside the cloud become too heavy, they eventually fall to Earth. To end another great week, we joined with the other Kindergarten and K/1 classes for a great, raucous play time in the gym.
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