Oh, hey there!... Just hanging out, living our best life here in K/1. We had some fun in Science this week, hypothesizing about what would happen if we left a ziplock bag enclosed around the leaves of a tree for several days. We had all kinds of interesting guesses. ...In the end, one of the hypotheses that got the least votes as a plausible outcome was the one that turned out to be correct: the bag collected water! But, why? It didn't even rain this week! Maybe the leaves were wet when we put the bag on them? No...they were dry! We thought about it for a while and realized that the roots collected moisture from the soil, and that moisture travelled up through the trunk of the tree, down into the branches, and then finally into the leaves. The moisture dripped off the leaves every day into our bag, creating the little puddle of water that we found. Isn't nature amazing?! We've been having fun learning about shapes in Math and Mme Van Sickle made her own YouTube shapes song for us to sing and learn the vocabulary. Today she brought out some instruments for us to play while singing along. We are definitely enjoying our shapes dance parties and we're getting very good at recognizing the pentagons, octagons, semi-circles, etc that are all around us. Sometimes we even stop playing during centre time to point out the shapes that we recognize in our toys! Charlotte brought in a bee hive that she found at home (sans bees, thank goodness!) and we noticed that the entire thing was made up of hexagons! We've also been stretching ourselves lately with our numeracy work. We've even begun learning some Grade 3 Math - figuring out how to multiply. We're getting quite good at it when we do it in steps! Our kindergarteners are supposed to be able to count to 10 by the end of the year but the smart cookie in this photo decided to put off snack time so that she could casually do some complicated subtraction. ...you know, no biggie... We capped off the week by crashing the Intermediate students' "Colour Run Party". We were dying to participate, ourselves, but alas, we will have to wait... We still really enjoyed watching the chaos and were overjoyed when one of our regular lunch-time monitors came running over, throwing powder in our direction. (...at a safe enough distance to keep our clothes clean) ;-)
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