Me to We Fair

    

The Me to We Club students organized a fair for today. The objective of this fair was to raise money for the pillar we are supporting this year: Clean Water/Sanitation in developing countries. Students in room 2 brought in donations today and participated in some fun games!

  

We have butterflies!

  

All of our butterflies have come out of their chrysalis! We will be observing them today and tomorrow and releasing them on Wednesday!

Lobsters and Butterflies!

Today we learned more about atlantic Canada. We learned about their major industries and natural resources. We talked about the importance of foresty, coal mining, tourism, and lobster fishing to the people of the maritimes provinces. Students then had the opportunity to create their own lobster and lobster trap!


It was also an exciting day in our butterfly world! We arrived this morning and one butterfly had hatched. We then got to watch the second one come out of its chrysalis! I'm sure more will hatch this weekend!

 

Summer Slide...

Summer slide is a term we use to refer to students slipping on their reading abilities over the summer. Many students/families forget how important it is to practice the skills we've acquired. This is especially important for beginner readers.
Today we visited the public library and listened to a presentation about a summer reading program. Your child is bringing home information about this program and other programs the library offers. Please take some time to review these programs and talk about the importance of reading every day (even in the summer!).

Watercolour pencil crayons

Today we worked on our Father's Day cards with water colour pencil crayons.  We based our cards on the metaphor of a toolkit.  We talk about toolkits in health a lot. 

We defined a toolkit as a collection of tools we possess to help us fix things or solve problems. 

We often talk about the strategies in our toolkits to solve problems with our peers, or to solve math equations.   Today the class thought about all the wonderful things our fathers do for us and how amazing they are.  To do all these great things, we decided they must possess great traits and attributes.  Children talked about their fathers as being thoughtful, kind, funny, patient, caring, gentle, responsible, hard working and being good listeners.   These were the tools our father's have to do such a great job. 

The kids worked really hard with this new medium.  Children practiced creating dark perimeter lines and creating texture patterns inside.  Some children noted that next time, they would make their lines darker as they faded quite a bit when they added the water. 

Pollinators and measurement

Today we watched a video about pollinators then went to the community gardens to collect some first hand data on what kinds of pollinators there were. 

In our video we learned how many types of creatures help fertilize plants by transporting pollen (often accidentally) from the stamen of the plant to the pistil of a plant.  We used a chart to collect observations.  Children placed a tally mark on their chart every time they witnessed an creature crawling on these flower parts. 

Back at the class we totaled our tallies and wrote about our observations.  Most kids had the most tallies for bees.  Children saw some butterflies flying in the field but not visiting the flowers.  Kids found other insects pollinating on the flower parts like wasps, ants and beetles. 

This afternoon we explored measurement some more.  We looked at what made a good referent for measuring.  We determined that rocks were too varied and irregular to be good referents.  Good referents are uniform and identical in size and shape.  We also looked at some standard referents like centimeters, meters, pounds and ounces.  Look around your house for standard measurement units. 

Then the kids had fun measuring different objects in the class from their shoes to their water bottles.

Informational Reports

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Today we started our final informational report. We are going to be working on our researching skills over the next 2 weeks. Students will be reading through books and using the iPads to gather information about a bug of their choice. Today we just started looking through books and creating our title page for our non-fiction book. We're talking about the different between information we gather from books versus information we thinking we know. These will be informational reports, so entirely true information. Talk to your child about their bug and what they think they know and how they're going to gather information to write in their report. Also if you have books at home that your child would like to use, they are more than welcome to bring them into the class.