Marble Painting

Today some students experimented with marbles and paint. They learned what happens when you mix colours, and had so much fun doing it!!!

Let's start adding

Today the class worked on an addition math problem in partners. We have started teaching addition by showing different ways to make a number. For example, 4 and 1 make 5, 3 and 2 make 5, also 5 and 0 make 5.

Patterns Everywhere

Today we looked for patterns in our classroom, on our clothes and in our school. Patterning is an important math skill. For beginners, patterns using two objects are easily identified. Once the students can identify, create and extend simple AB patterns we encourage them to explore more complex patterns. Here are some pictures of patterns we found while we went for a 'pattern walk.'

Silly rhymes

We have been working on rhyming. It is a tough skill to learn and is best taught through repetition. Mrs. Kidd wrote a funny poem today, and the students filled in the words. "Fred" is our funny monster we created. We have also spent some time singing down by the bay. The students enjoy creating silly rhymes. Ask your child to rhyme things around the house, or things that you see while driving in the car.

Hard at Work!

Today during free play, Ryan worked so hard to write her letters and numbers to 26!
Great work Ryan!

Creating our own marble runs

After our playground experiment the students were challenged to create their own marble runs. They could use anything in our class, and the objective was to get the marble from the table to the cup. Here are some pictures of their neat ideas:

Gravity as Energy!

Today we explored how toys use gravity as a source of energy. They were challenged to find a way to make their toys (cars and balls) move without being pushed, pulled, or thrown. The rules were that they could use the play equipment and they may carry the toys someplace, but once they let go of the toys, the toys have to travel by themselves without a push or a pull. Here are some pictures of the students experimenting. They were quick to discover that they could drop their toy, or put it on the slide to make it move by itself