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!

Science, Laser Beams & Kandinsky-Oh My!

This week we saw changes in how the "big boxes" were being used.

Below are a few pictures of the boxes with added mail boxes and if you look close- laser beams!!

 There are "laser beams" - yarn strung around each of the boxes and across the carpet for protection. A lot of role play and sneaking around came from this idea and it lasted a few days.

 Earlier this week we read the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds which is about a little girl who thought she couldn't draw and was inspired by a simple dot she drew and an encouraging art teacher.

 

Sometimes we forget how hard it is to tackle something we don't think we are good at. This book is great for simplifying the idea of a task that can seem so overwhelming by taking the risk of simply "trying" and that just trying is good enough. 

 We then looked at some art by Kandinsky and noticed how a lot of the circles the girl in the story made were similar to Kandinsky's.

 We tried to make our own "dot" art using coloured paper. We started with the outside circle and cut more -smaller each time using a different colour.

The most challenging part was making sure the circles we cut were big enough that another colour could go on top!

Stay tuned next week for the finished product on our board!

 

Then came a cool science experiment.

The question: Which ice cube will melt first?

We put one ice cube in each of 4 glass dishes.

Then we added something to 3 different dishes and left one just ice on its own.

One had salt added to it.

Another had lemon juice,

and the third had flour added to it.

Students then chose which one they thought would melt the fastest.  

 They tallied the results and most thought salt would melt the ice the fastest.

After 32 minutes we had our answer! 

 After lunch when we came back in there were no ice cubes left!

 There was a lot of discussion about how when there is icy weather like the freezing rain or snow we just had that snowplows put salt on the road to help melt the ice. We saw this. Students decided that the ice all over the playground would definitely melt if we put salt all over it! Actually there was discussion about how sand and salt are put on the roads and the sand helps for tires gripping the pavement and not slipping. So next week we will be trying out sand and ice.

Above, students are joining in on a game of "POP" which is a game that helps them with learning how numbers can be represented like on our new number wall!