Plants!

 

Hello! It was great to be back in the classroom today. It sounds like the K's had a wonderful time on Friday with choosing winners for the drawing contest. They also won a pizza party for being the top sellers of the most recent SCC fundraiser! There was definitely a happy dance about that today.

 

We also had some additional excitement in our classroom this morning- new plants, two tubs of soil to play in, artificial flowers, and a large picture of a greenhouse.

Briefly, they did run a flower store, but the biggest thrill was playing in the soil and planting bean seeds!

 

Some plant-related books are on display right now too.

 

 

 

A few students also took it upon themselves to water some of the plants that we've had in our classroom since the beginning of the year.

We did some ABC practice today. Students worked to fill in the missing letters in the alphabet.

 

They also did some matching with the letters.

 

Some 3D shapes and structures were also built during some extra free time today!

 

 

 

In Science, we further discussed what we know and what we want to know about plants and gardening.

 

 

 

In math, we talked about the number 7. We read a poem about stars and then students coloured their own nighttime scene. They had to count out seven stars and then find the number seven amongst all of the other numbers from one to ten.

 

We also read the final story from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids: Sleepy Sophie. Sophie was fatigued (we learnt a new word for tired from Sophie!) because she was staying up all night reading. Her mom gave her the advice to not only take care of her mind with reading, but to also take care of her heart, body, and soul. So, Sophie coloured with her friend Lily to make her heart happy, she played sports with Jumper to get some exercise, and she made her soul happy by listening to Pokey play music as she laid in the sun and daydreamed. The lesson was about how balance is best.

 

In gym, we played a tag game and then practiced catching and throwing balls. :)

 

Hopefully our excitement about plants will continue to 'grow', as we'll be doing more learning about observing plants in the next few weeks. I'll meet you back here on Thursday! Thanks for visiting our blog.