Just some everyday moments

Waiting to see what will happen to the little beads when we add water.

"The little balls are thirsty and they drinked the water. Now they're big."

"Girls, I think we can be done with finger painting now."

"But Mrs. Looooonnnnggggg, I'm making a pattern."

"Ok, keep working." (How could I say no? ;)

On the science "wonder" table is a tray full of sand, shells and coral from my trip to Fort Lauderdale. I left it out for the children to explore. 

"Look Mrs. Long, I drew this coral. Those little holes, that's were little creatures and fishes used to live along time ago."

I left a box of rhyming things on the carpet. And my friend here has found them all! He then challenged his friends to try.

"Hat cat, spoon moon, hog log...."

And who can resist a chocolate pudding moustache!

Spring photo day

Just a reminder that this Monday is Spring photo day. 

The children usually go down first thing in the morning for individual pictures. 

Please remember that we will be going outside, weather permitting. So send warm clothes if it is cold (long pants under dresses) or send play clothes to change into since we have a lot of mud.

March break 1 page entry

Happy March break everyone! We hope you and your family enjoy some great moments together, whether away or cozy here at home.

We sent home this note the other day. We would like the children to write one sentence telling a favorite moment of their vacation time. Then to draw a picture or a picture clue that represents their words. We call this a story. 

If you look on the back of the note there is plenty of space for one sentence and one picture. 

I wonder...all about rocks

       

        

        

            

"The big rock is heavier because that side goes down"

         

"These are my rocks"

"I'm drawing the scale. This side is heaviest since it has the most"

        

"I made a square"

"This string is the longest.  I'm drawing them"

"I'm measuring each of these rocks"

"I'm drawing pictures of the rocks and colouring them. 

"I put this here so I can see what I'm doing" (mirror)

        

"I'm making all the colours of the different rocks"

        

"L and I are measuring which side is heavier"

"Me and M put rocks on each side.  He put 6 and I put 12 in the other"

Sink or Float?

This inquiry started with our water table. The children were estimating how many frogs do we need on the lily pad to make it sink? Why do the lily pads float but not the frogs?

So the children chose things from around the classroom and we predicted if it would sink or float. They documented their findings through illustrations.

Math expectation - begin to use information to estimate the number in a small set

- collect objects and data and make representations of their observations, using concrete graphs

Science expectations - make predictions and observations before and during investigations

- select and use materials to carry out their own explorations

- communicate and record results and findings after constructing things either individually or in groups

Eleanor's Eyebrows

What would you do if your eyebrows disappeared? Would you notice? Would you care? When Eleanor's eyebrows disappear, she doesn't care one bit. After all what's the point of eyebrows - they're just two silly, scruffy, hairy little bits of fluff!
This hilarious and surreal book follows the eyebrows' adventures as extra legs for an ant pretending to be a spider, a twirly moustache for a magician and a furry exclamation mark

The children are decorating their own eyebrows. They are using many different kinds of supplies to create their eyebrows.

     Language expectation met:

• use illustrations to support comprehension of texts that are read by and with the ELK team
• respond to a variety of materials read aloud to them

What a great connection these girls made. And it was a few after we read Eleanor's Eyebrows! As they were making handles for their Easter baskets out of paper, they discovered they looked like eyebrows! 

The learning I see, the "ah-ha" moments I witness, how inquisitive all your children are is the reason I love what I do!