We did it! We finally succeeded in going on a "forest" walk! And we even managed to find a sliver of sunshine for it. A huge "merci" once again to our volunteers for making this happen! Coming on the first big walk with a K/1 class requires a certain amount of bravery. ;-) And since snow (la neige) appeared on the ground this week, it also appeared in our classroom. We found that our class tree had finally lost all its leaves and had gotten a dusting of white, and snow even showed up in the sensory bin! The Christmas season has been spreading even more of its cheer around the classroom, too, with our felt Christmas tree. We love moving the ornaments around throughout the day. We got our hands nice and messy with our big buddies this week as we formed our handprints into clay for our upcoming trip to the high school. We really do need to give a shout-out to our big buddies for being so incredibly awesome! They come and read with the Grade 1s every morning (and sometimes play alphabet games with the Ks), they are our lunch monitors, they do art projects and activities with us, and they even helped us rollerblade this week...twice! One thing that Madame learned from doing conferences with us is that there are a whole lot of us that love the Science experiments. So we decided to pull out an old classic this week... Mentos and Coke. It did not disappoint. We tried putting Mentos in water and many predicted that it would have the same reaction. We were surprised when it didn't. Even when we shook it in a bag full of water, nothing happened other than the water getting cloudy. We learned that soda has carbonation in it, which is made from carbon dioxide. As the Mentos fall into the soda, more and more carbon dioxide bubbles are formed, causing an eruption of bubbles. Madame is constantly amazed at how much we learn, just through playing. We learn to be good humans - how to share, care, and speak nicely to one another. But we also make all kinds of discoveries. This week's discovery theme, completely lead by the students' own play, was all about magnets. Many of us learned that magnets have two ends - a north pole and a south pole. When we tried to put two like poles together (two norths or two souths), they repelled each other. But when we put opposite ends together, they grabbed onto each other! We had a great time testing out how the magnets reacted to one another, and also trying to find magnetic surfaces around the classroom. We even discovered some magnetic cars that could "drive" along the metal bathtub and race down the whiteboard. No children were harmed in the making of this photo. Extra photos...
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