We're Back!

I hope that everyone had a fantastic break! I had forgotten to get a photo of the bunnies and flowers that the students made before the break. :)

Chester Raccoon and I had a wonderful time at my parent's farm for Easter and then we headed to Edmonton. I hope that the students enjoyed looking at photos of Chester's adventures on our class Facebook page. :) When we talked about it in class today, the students seemed quite excited to say that their parent had showed them the photos. In fact, our morning meeting involved a lot of discussion about everyone's week off and what Chester got up to. :)

 

We also had some math review today to get us back into the mind frame of learning numbers. We re-read Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 and then students played a dice game where they rolled the dice and then had to highlight or colour in the number that they rolled. Afterwards, students went to the library.

 

After lunch, our planned schedule was to do an introductory lesson into talking about different materials in Science and then to move onto some literacy practice with sounds and letters (oh yes! We also learnt about the /oi/ sound this morning.) However, our Science discussion really grew into a lot of great questions and 'research'. When talking about the different types of materials, someone said paper. One students said paper is made out of trees and another said paper is made out of mud. So, we did a Google search and ended up watching two different videos about how paper is made. Then, someone asked how coloured paper is made. So, we watched a video about how coloured construction paper is made. Our conversation turned to compost, so we did a bit of brainstorming about what compost is and then we found a video to teach us more about it. We got back into talking about trees and someone asked how trees make oxygen. The video that we found also taught us about different reasons why trees are important!

 Our discussion rounded off by going back to talking about some different types of materials and why we use materials to make certain items. For example, why do we make houses out of wood and not paper or fabric? Why are our clothes made out of cloth/fabric instead of metal? With that question, we had to look up what suits of armour looked like that a knight would wear! I was very impressed with where our learning went today. :) I am hoping that the curiosity and questions will continue as we talk more about materials, recycling, and taking care of the Earth!

We will see where our questions take us on Wednesday!