Colourful Window Decorations

After the children coloured designs on their hearts, they sprayed them lightly with water and watched the beautiful results appear!

Marker/Colour Experiement

Last year we did an experiment with old ("dried up") markers. Our SK students remembered this and wanted to repeat it. We have been saving old markers in a basket. The basket was full so it was time to get started! First, the children retested the markers to make sure they were actually "old". Then they sorted the markers by colour and placed them in clear cups with some water.  They loved seeing the colour appear in the water right away. The cups of markers have been sitting on our windowsill for several days. Stay tuned for further posts on our experiments!

The Children Were Challenged To Count And Organize Classroom Objects Into Groups Of 10s To Show 100

We Celebrated On The 100th day Of School!

We Have Been Counting Our School Days!

Building Arenas With Classroom Materials

We Also Made And Played With Skaters And Hockey Players!

Making Banners

Another Change For Our Dramatic Play Area!

An Interest In Arenas And Skating

Famous Structures Continued!

Check Out What Was In Our Ice And Snow!

Making Patterns

We Can Build Famous Structures!

Cold Fingers In Our Water Table

All Kinds Of Cakes!

How Do Penguins Stay Warm?

This was a wonderful way to learn how penguins stay warm as they slide on ice and dive and swim in icy water.  The students got a kick out of putting one hand directly in the bowl of ice water, followed by their other hand (wearing a glove in a bag of Crisco).  The hand that went in the water in the bag did not feel the chill of the ice water!

An Interest In Penguins

The interest in penguins was sparked by some non-fiction reading material from the library.  The children were fascinated by the photographs. This interest has grown as penguin-related activities have been introduced in Room 106.

Our Dramatic Play Centre Is Now The Site Of A Birthday Party!

It was time to take down the New Year's decorations but the children didn't want to stop the party.  We have many birthdays in Room 106 during the month of January so we decided to continue the party with a birthday theme!  The children love writing out invitations and making phone calls to organize the parties.  Each child has a card with his/her phone number listed so the students are getting a lot of exposure to numbers!

We Made A Snowflake Snack!

Our gr. 7/8 Buddies taught the children how to make paper snowflakes by folding and cutting paper, coffee filters, and cupcake liners.  The children were excited to use their snowflake-making skills to make yummy snowflake treats! The tortilla snowflakes were a huge hit!