We sure had a fun, and exciting first week back at school. We started our own businesses, we began our Science unit on living things, we created Snow people/animals using our "Good Stuff."
^ I just love this picture. I like to think this is how most of the kids feel as they are learning in this classroom. Learning is so much fun!
We started our Science unit on living things and our first task was to find things in magazines that are living and not living. We had a good discussion on what characteristics define something as living.
In Writing, we started this game called Monster Match. If you want a better idea of how this game is played I have the link to the video which is where I got the idea from. The kids are so excited to play this game with the Beaverdell Elementary students. We will be video conferencing with them this Wednesday to see if they can draw the monsters we will be explaining. This is also a great game to play with your children at home. We started the lesson with a really bad example and the kids were very frustrated that they couldn't draw the monster because it was so poorly explained. They understood that they needed to think and write everything they had drawn on their monsters for them to match.
In art, we read the book Snowballs by Lois Ehlers. Lois is one of my favourite artists and I love sharing her world with the kids. They get so excited to read her books and create! This book inspired us to collect "good stuff" as she calls it and use that stuff to create interesting snow figures. The kids were created snow cats, dogs, Mom's, Dad's, girls, boys, etc. I am hoping to display their artwork this week!
^ I had two specials helpers that day! One helped organize, help students, and just overall helpful the other one was quite disastrous.
It was so much fun this week and I can't wait to see what next week entails. Have a great weekend everyone!
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