June 25, 2013

Today we had some fun with bubble gum.  First we talked about the steps you take to eat bubble gum:

Then we tried three different flavours and used tally marks and a graph to describe which flavour we liked best:

Finally, we interpreted the results of the tally's and the graph:

In science we learned about boats and buoyancy.  We watched the following Bill Nye video:

We then made our own sailboats:

Have a great night!

June 21, 2013

Yeah, what a beautiful first day of Summer!

In our Plants and Animals unit today we talked about classifying animals into families.  We talked about 5 different families of animals;

We then played a fun fame where we sorted the animal attributes into the different families.  Click here to play the game online.

For our Building Things unit we learned about building teepees.  We began by watching the video below:

Then using paper, straws and tape we made teepees of our own:

Have a great weekend!!!

June 20, 2013

In LA today we finished our Stuart Little book.  In the last chapter Stuart continued on his journey North looking for his friend Margalo.  We then began watching the movie, which the kids loved.

In art today we made log cabins out of popsicle sticks.  The kids are bringing them home today and they look great.

In Science we talked about wild and domestic animals.  We sorted the following:

Finally, we had our year end liturgy today.  One of the main songs was the classic Lean on Me:

Have a great night!!!

June 19, 2013

Sorry for no blog yesterday, I got a little sidetracked and it totally slipped my mind.

In LA today we read chps 13 and 14 in our Stuart Little novel study.  Stuart stopped in the town of Ames and met a young girl named Harriet who was the same size as him.  He invited her for a canoe ride, but before they could head out his canoe was destroyed.  Poor Stuart.

In Science today we talked about house building.  We practiced building houses our of lincoln logs and talked about all the important parts of a house and what we may need to build one:

1. walls
2. a roof
3. wood
4. doors
5. hammer and nails
6. power tools
7. bricks

Finally, we played the following game on the internet.

Have a great night!

June 17, 2013

Only 2 weeks left....

For Building Things today we made skeletons out of pipe cleaners and straws.  The goals for building the skeleton were:

• Have 2 legs, 2 arms, a torso and a head
• Legs bend at the hips, knees, and ankles
• Arms bend at the shoulders, elbows and wrist

Here are some pics of the kids hard at work:

In our Plants and Animals unit we talked about animal life cycles.  Two specific animal life cycles we learnt about are:

We also talked about Animal Habitats.  A habitat is a place where animals can find the food, shelter, and water that they need in order to live.  We then sorted animals into their correct habitats:

 Have a great night!

June 14, 2013

We started our morning with a Father's Day Liturgy presented by the kindergarten classes.  They closed with an all time favourite; "If I Were a Butterfly"

We finished reviewing our No Excuse Words today.  Over the summer continue to work on spelling skills with your child.  You can do this by playing spelling games on long car or plane rides, playing some of the spelling online games or apps you can find on the class website, or by doing some of the activities on the No Excuse Word link on our class website.

In Art today we made pop up cards for Father's Day.  This is also part of our building things unit as we built something with moveable parts.

In Science today we talked about how animals make adaptions in order to survive.  Click on the link below to play the game we played in class:

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/

Have a great weekend!!!

June 13, 2013

Just a reminder that we DO have school tomorrow.

In LA today we read the next 2 chapters in Stuart Little.  Stuart decided that he wanted to go find his friend Margalo.  He decided to stop off at his friend Dr. Carey's dental office to get some advice about which direction to go.  While he was there Dr. Carey gave him a small car so that he could drive instead of having to walk.  In his travels he met a man who was looking for a substitue teacher.  Stuart volunteered to help out.  Stuart skipped all the subjects he was supposed to teach and instead he gave the students a lecture about rats.  Oh, Stuart!

In art we made...oops it's a Father's Day Secret so you'll have to wait until Sunday to find out.

In Science, we did an animal sorting activity:

Have a great night!