We went on our first nature walk this week with our big buddies (thanks for getting in all of those permission forms!) and it was completely open-ended. The kids enjoyed jumping off big stumps, climbing inside of them, making pretend campfires, collecting "treasures" in paper bags, and, in the picture above, banding together to build a shelter with large branches they found. It was fun to see their imaginations come to life. A log placed on top of a stump became a "bench", and little nooks in the trees became their "houses". Some learned about mushrooms growing on trees and how they are different from the mushrooms that we buy at the store - we don't eat them!
We are also talking a lot about patterns these days in our Math classes. One of our favourite places to find patterns is in music. We discovered a great A-B-A-B pattern in the song "We will rock you" (stomp-clap-stomp-clap), and with the help of the trumpet, we learned that we can also find some AA-BB patterns ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") and A-B-C ("Hot Cross Buns"), etc. The students were very curious about the trumpet and loved touching the buttons and looking at their reflections in the bell. Comments are closed.
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