Fabulous Friday!

Look at all our recycling in only 4 DAYS! We looked at pictures of landfill sites today. We were very proud that we are recycling more and sending less to the garbage dumps. We felt the garbage dumps didn't look very peaceful. we want to help our Earth by recycling.



Look at All Our Canadian Symbols!

 We Are Almost Finished Our Water-Cycles!

Amazing Structure Built By Students At The University of Manitoba, Architecture Program!

Today we brought in Canadian symbols.-Savannah

We were working on our water cycles and some of us are finished! -Kolton

We had fun making our water cycles. -Jenna

We worked hard on our water-cycles.-Brady

Some people forgot to bring in their Canada symbols. -Hannah

I brought in a maple syrup candy!- Damien

All of our symbols of Canada were good!-Jonah

 We are having a lot of fun!-Alex

We had a practice fire drill today!-Easton

I LOVE SCHOOL!!-Khadra

I love Canadian symbols-Amy

We were able to look at wonderful pictures taken at The University of Manitoba of amazing structures designed by students in the Architect program!

BABY VISITOR!!

 

This is Emmit and he likes to jump.-Amy

Emmit and his mom came to visit in our class. -Jenna

This is a picture of Emmit getting ready to jump. -Easton

Emmitt is in the Jolly-jumper to jump. -Damien

Emmitt loves to jump in his Jolly-jumper. -Kayden.

Emmit loves to jump. -cassady.

Emmit loves to eat bananas. -Alex.

                                                               Emmitt is 7 months old. -Khadra

 Today we started to show our learning of the water-cycle using "Beautiful Stuff". Our teacher brought large foam circles that she got from ArtsJunktion. Everything she gets from there is free and may have ended up in a landfill. We thought we could use them for our water cycles. Check back tomorrow to see how they look!

Here are faces made at our "UNESCO Family Night" at our school. Everyone used "Beautiful Stuff" to create these original faces! It was a lot of fun to create!

Sculptures

Wow!!!!! Our class created their own marvelous sculptures using wood scraps and "Beautiful Stuff" that may have ended up in a landfill. Each student designed their sculptures using various sizes and shapes. Each child was engaged and did not want to stop working! Some kids want to keep them inside to play with and others want to put them outside.
 

Today we decided if we wanted to leave them natural or paint them. We used acrylic paint and chose one colour to paint our sculptures. Some children painted half of them and some painted the whole sculpture. We talked about being "the boss of the brush", not the other way around. It is important to only have paint on the bristles and not the metal.

This Week At School

This video shows how much our ducks and chickens (that we hatched in our classroom in the Spring) have grown!


In Math this week we were learning about adding zeros and how important they are. We read the book titled "Zero" by Kathryn Otoshi and learned a song called "You Are My Zero". Our class started practicing "Math Jobs" with our partners and have been doing a lot of counting forwards and backwards to and from 100.

"You Are My Zero"

(sang to the tune "You Are My Sunshine")

You are my zero

My only zero,

You make a number

Remain the same.

Just add a zero

To  any number,

And the number

Stays the same!

Making Paper For Our Nature Journals

           Design Project: Making Individual Scarecrows

           

 Each student designed their own scarecrow this week at school for Science. We were learning about objects, materials and textures. As a class our criteria included: 1) Size: about the distance from your elbow to your fingers 2) Aesthetics: is scarecrow secure or not secure(holds together) 3) Materials: 5-10 different materials/textures. We used our "Beautifil Stuff" from Artsjunktion.

As a class we had to decide how we would display our scarecrows. At first we wanted to stick our scarecrows in our individual pumpkins, but we will be using them for Math. Later we found our classroom gourds and pumpkins and thought we could fit them all in the large ones.

Special Package Arrives From Ms. Korlak!

      

Our class was excited when a special package arrived from British Columbia! Our Art teacher moved to B.C. and remembered we were looking closely at leaves. She found special leaves, wrote a letter and mailed it to us. We were very excited! During Exploration time we studied our leaves on the light table with magnifying glasses!

Some of our friends painted the really large maple leaf! Other kids used chalk pastels and represented the leaves. Some children decided to do leaf rubbings. Our class noticed so many beautiful colours and discovered a lot of veins!We want to make a special package for Ms. Korlak and mail it to her as a thank-you! We have our pictures up on display in our classroom. 

In Math this week we have been measuring our pumpkins. We were comparing Buttercup to our pumpkins. Most of our pumpkins weighed the same as 2 Buttercups!

                                               Stoneworks!

Today we went outside and explored with stones. We used stones to make a picture! Can you see the dragon?

Air Movement Design Progects April

 

Harvest Time!