Volcano's and birthdays :)

We had such a great week.  It was jam packed with fun activities. 

We finally got to do our volcano science experiment on Monday. We got to erupt our volcano :)  Sadly the volcano did not erupt the way we had planned.  Although we did hear it fizz.  We mixed baking baking soda, water and red food colouring.

E.L made volcano's at the free art table! 

This week we also talked a lot about Spring / Printemps.  We talked about what we need to make plants grow?

We discovered that we need Seeds (graines), soil (sol), water (eau) and sun (soleil).  

We made grass buddies this week with Mrs. S and also made a plant journal so we could document the stages of growth of our grass :)

Here are a few other things we got up too this week ... 

We have been practicing how to write our Spring words at the writing center. 

We have also started to learn about Les Formes (Shapes) with Mme. Cayci

We made a new addition to our classroom and made a Shape banner

A.T told us "I used 3 traingles to make a square" 

 We have been noticing les formes everywhere, including the blocks that we play with. 

Using various shapes / formes to make letters of the alphabet

C.S and A.T used many shapes to make beautiful pieces of work. C.S made a spaceship and A.T made a Monster :)

D.R (jk) and M.R were having a great time making patterns with the coloured alphabet pieces. 

We had a week filled with Birthdays ...

Thursday was Ms. Mallamo's Birthday and Friday was Mme. Cayci's Birthday :)

Friday we celebrated Mme. Cayci's birthday by making birthday crowns and balloons.  We also had the children decorate cupcakes and we watched the movie Frozen as a special treat.  We talked about all our French winter vocabulary that related to the movie. "l'hiver, la glace, la neige, and bonhomme de neige". The kids found it funny how the "bonhomme de neige" didn't know what happened to la neige in the summer, so we talked about the snow melting because of le soleil. 

We had such a great week!!!

See you on Monday. 

St. Patrick's Day and Spring

We hope everyone had a great March Break!!!  It is so great to be back.

Here is what we got up too this week...

The week before March break we made a paper mâché volcano to go along with our dinosaur inquiry. This week we were able to Paint it.  We are very excited to have our volcano erupt next week as a science experiment. 

Monday was St. Patrick's Day!!

A.T made some shamrocks using toilet paper rolls dipped in paint.

Some friends showed a real interest in making story books this week.  S.O and R.D made several books.  

First S.O painted a picture and then she wrote a story to go with it

"One day Julie woke up it was St. Patrick's day. There was a rainbow and clovers.  She put on her clothes, she got on the bus.  She waved goodbye to mommy. She wore green." - S.O 

 R.D's book of rugby players 

R.D's book of rugby symbols / teams

We have been building beautiful structures also.

We have been building castles, roads, and houses.

B.M was very proud to show us the cross he made out of blocks.

These building blocks were a huge hit this week. 

Thursday was the first day of Spring!
We asked what is Spring?

* "Its when the grass starts to grow" - L.M

* "It's a tiny green ball that turns into a leaf" - S.O

* "When we use lawn mowers to cut the grass" - A.B

We also asked if there were any signs of spring Thursday morning?

* "There is water outside.  The snow is melting" - D.R(jk)

* "It rains a lot in spring." - C.C

We have also been Learning about Canadian currency.  We talked about the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, loonies and twoonie. We also played at two centers related to Canadian money. 

We also read the book "Don't wake the bear". 

We discovered that it is a rhyming book. We also
 talked a little bit about hibernation and the many signs of Spring.  We also went over some Spring words that we are going to add to our writing centre. Various words such as: Spring, buds, flowers, chicks, eggs,   Etc.


We also worked on our fine motor skills this week with some fun centers. 

We also had our reading buddies visit us on Friday morning.  We had a great time having Mrs. Beardsley's class come to visit us and read to our students.

We had such a great week! 

*** if anyone happens to have any clear egg cartons that are not needed we would greatly appreciate them.  We plan on doing an activity growing grass seed.  We will also gladly accept regular egg cartons was well!!  :)

See you on Monday!

Dinosaur Jungle

We had a great week!!!  We continued to explore our new classroom inquiry "Jungle des Dinosaures / Dinosaur Jungle" 

We have been practicing how to spell some of our favorite dinosaurs

E.S and F.C wrote their favorite dinosaurs!

E.S doing a little research on Triceratops!

We also had some friends do research on a dinosaur of their choice.  E.S chose to research the "Triceratops".  She wrote down some very important facts! 

 

Duncan (Sk) chose to research the T-Rex!  

F.C chose to research the Stegosaurus! 

We have done a great job creating our dramatic play area into our Jungles des Dinosaures!!! 

E.L and B.M looking at the dinosaurs in the Dinosaur Jungle.  D.R (SK) made the asteroid that is hanging in the air heading towards our dinosaurs. 

R.T adding a few dinosaurs to the bottom of the tree that she made.

We learned some very interesting facts about these 3 dinosaurs.  The class is having a great time exploring this new inquiry. 

F.C is making a Pterodactyl 

E.L made two Pterodactyls

On our tree we have hung the Pterodactyls that the children wanted made.  

At the play dough center the children made bones and various dinosaurs.

C.C was playing with les dinosaures and making them a house.

At circle, we were learning about les dinosaures!  R.D revealed that this dinosaur was a T-Rex! 

We also made some hand print dinosaurs to put in our Dinosaur Jungle. 

We also made some dinosaur fossils using q-tips! 

We have some very creative children in our class  :)

We also turned our sand table into a dinosaur area.  There are some brushes in the table for the children to pretend to be paleontologists and find dinosaur bones  or they can use the sand table to play dinosaur land. 

B.M made a tent to hide from the dinosaurs! 

We have made some amazing structures this past week. 

S.O made a beautiful picture and also wrote a story to go with it. 

We also learned how to make pictographs this week,  The children enjoyed making their own :)

We were very busy crafting this week! 

We have been practicing our upper and lowercase letters! 

L.M was practicing how to write a words. First she would find the letters she needed, then she would write it out.  

Next week is Spirit week!!!   Here is the schedule ... 

Have a great weekend and see you on Monday :)