Well, that escalated quickly... Our bean plants were barely beginning to sprout on Friday and by Monday morning, we arrived to find them looking like the photo above! We were so excited to take them home mid-week! It's amazing what you can grow from a little seed. Flowers and plants have continued to be a theme throughout our week. We enjoyed taking a closer investigative look at some different kinds of flowers, as well as one of the bean plants that Madame dug up. In Math, the measurement theme continues... this week with paper airplanes! We couldn't believe Madame was actually teaching us how to make paper airplanes in class! The folding part was a little bit tricky, but we persevered. Then we took the planes outdoors and did throwing contests with a partner, measuring the distance between our planes with our feet. We carefully recorded our measurements using 10-frames and numerals. Our Kindergarten students have come so far with their numeracy skills that they have started doing their own version of problem solving questions in their journals along with the Grade 1s! French was fast-paced, with relay races to get all the pieces for assembling our dictée words. While the Ks don't have to do the weekly dictée assessments with the Grade 1s, they are still benefiting from practicing with us and learning how to sound out the different parts of each word. We had a special surprise in class this week! A chick came to visit! A student in Madame Towne's class lives on a farm and brought some chicks in as special guests for the day. And in other animal news, our tadpoles are beginning to sprout legs! And yes, these are REAL legs this time... not the poop that we previously THOUGHT was legs before...heh. We are excited to have begun a new column on our tally sheets! In the forest, we continue to work on our knot-tying and even have some Ks who are beginning to do the bunny-ears knots! We worked so well as a team on all kinds of projects that we invented for ourselves this week! We built forts, chopped wood to build a fire for the king and queen of the Arctic, "painted" trees with red bark, forged swords, made potions, and much more... Ms. Angela from Stardom continues to send us weekly photo updates of the garden that we helped to plant! And we got so busy on Friday that Madame forgot to show these to us this week!! We will look at them next week, but here they are for everyone to see for the first time. We hope to go back in June to see the progress for ourselves. In her walk by the garden, Ms. Angela also saw some fun animals! Who knew there were beavers living just steps away from the community garden?! Comments are closed.
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