New Post Trouble!

Unfortunately I have been having some difficulties uploading pictures to the blog. This is the reason for the delay in posting. It appears I can post text but it's the pictures that really show what we have been doing.
Please keep checking and I hope to get this figured out soon!
Thank you!!
Mrs. Van Ravenswaay

Egg- sper-iment continued, Signs of Spring? & Goodbye Mrs. Webster!

This week we finished our "Egg-speriment".

 When we checked the eggs after Easter weekend the hard shell was completely gone and a squishy, bouncy kind of thick skin left.

 We thought we might bounce it like a ball...

 ...nope! That did NOT work, but we saw some cool stuff!

Ask your child what it looked like when the egg splattered in the bin. 

 Ask them what they could see through the green skin too!?!

 

Is it really spring? We found lots of signs!

 

 

 We even found a few bugs!!

 

 On Wednesday at our spaghetti dinner we said Thank-You, Good Bye, & Good Luck to

Mrs. Webster who officially retired.  

 We enjoyed a great lunch organized by Miss Donaldson and her snack team.

We would like to thank all the volunteers who helped cook and serve that day!!

Mrs. Nash made a huge "Rice Krispie" cake for the whole school to enjoy.

Mrs. Webster was presented with a book and a framed print using ideas and thoughts from all the students at AMMS.

On this note, we will miss Mrs. Webster and welcome back Mrs. Gross to our Little School With The BIG Heart!

 

Happy Easter!!

We had a very busy short week!

Take a look at a few things that happened!

Baby Kade came on Wednesday- he has more teeth and he can move!!

Ask your child how he likes to move to get to a toy, below he is checking out Baby Dani - our Roots of Empathy doll.

This week we also talked about Palm branches and Easter.

 We also have some mystery seed pods. No one knows what they are from yet.

With Easter approaching, we decided to try an egg-speriment!!

Below we used 3 raw- uncooked eggs and added vinegar and a few drops of food colouring.

 

 Within a few minutes something started to happen!!

 Ask your child what they saw. 

 

This is what we could see by the end of the

day.

 They grew and there's lots of bubbles around them.

The next day we changed the vinegar and added some more food colour except the green one- just vinegar to see if it made a difference.

 Ask your child what they observed and felt when the eggs were taken out to change the vinegar.

We will see what happens over the weekend!

 

 We also mixed up some chalk.

We used Plaster of Paris, powdered Tempera paint and water.

 Then mixed it up.

 

 It was very stiff once mixed.

 Then we filled plastic eggs and put them on the heater. At the end of the day we used a butter knife to crack the plastic open and found an egg shape- it needed more time to dry completely for a sidewalk chalk egg!!

Happy Easter!

 



We Are Art-astic!!

We have been busy with painting, cutting, pasting, chalk and even a little glitter!

We had a challenge from Home Hardware to create a spring poster to hang in their store from March 12 until early April. Please stop in and take a look for our poster. Below is the poster in process, lots of fun with fingers in paint and glitter!!

 

 

Our Kandinsky art continued with chalk!

This time we started in the middle and made our circles work outward to the edge of the paper.



Students wanted to try the ice cube experiment with the sand and salt this time. There was one bowl with just sand, another with just salt and one with both sand and salt.

 

Students predicted which would melt the ice the fastest ...

...then we waited...

...and waited...

...then it happened, and they were right!



Students are using our new number wall for lots of things!

Our challenge to the rest of the school...

Finally, we had a lot of spring painting happening this week!!

  HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!

 We hope you all have a wonderful March break and will see you on Monday March 21!