L,ast week we planted our first seeds and they are now starting to sprout! It has been amazing to see that in the past few days the sprout has gone from hardly visible to about an inch and a half tall. We recorded this growth in our journals at six days. We look forward to seeing how much they grow this coming week!
While we are waiting for our flowers to grow we have taken lima bean seeds and planted those in wet cotton balls. I was asked if it was going to grow or not, because it did not have any soil, and based on what we have been learning about what a plant needs to grow that was a very good question. So we waited a couple days and the lima bean seeds started to grow roots! I was told that the lima bean was growing much faster than the flower plants were. Very true.
On one of the beautiful days we had this week, we explored a couple different kinds of dirt outside using magnifying glasses. We identified similarities and differences in the dirt and over the matter of 10 minutes or so we even began to notice that the moist soil was drying out on the top. I was informed by the kids that “the sun is taking the soil’s water just like it takes our water when we are outside; that’s why we have to drink so much water Ms. Audra. We should water the soil!”
We painted our own version of a garden; painting flowers, grass, trees, squirrels, our family members, rainbows and a cow. Very creative thinking on these ones and great for practicing colour mixing!
On Monday, we adventured to a new park where we practiced new skills; climbing nets and different types of ladders, walking along moving bases, and climbing rock walls. It was great that there was a number wall there to practice identifying numbers! The kids were also amazed to see an ant hill where the ants were guarding the entrance to their home…we could tell they thought of us as enemies. At the park we used the teeter totter to investigate weight. Why does the teeter totter lean to one side when there are bigger people on that side? What about when there are more of less people on one side? How can we make the teeter totter level? It was a lot of fun investigating this!
This week we re-visited the letter sounds for A and B and brainstormed of the words that start with those letters. Everyone is getting really good at coming up with these words! By the end of the week we had almost 50 B words! After brainstorming our initial words that start with a particular letter we have been practicing our copying and letter formation by writing some choice words. The day after we begin brainstorming, words everyone chose their favourite ie: letter A word and wrote that word and created something to represent that word.
With our circle time calendar routine, we have started to not only spell out the days of the week and month of the year, but also sound them out; identifying when vowels are using which of their two sounds.
On Thursday we explored Nosehill. We explored “Porcupine Valley” where we hiked up higher than we ever had before, spotted many beetles which we had to stop and water every time, saw new growing plants, and stumbled across porcupine quills. We even found some words that started with the letter B while we were there (bug, beetle, bud, butterfly).
Some other things we have done this week include; threading beads onto a pipe cleaner and then twisted it in different ways to form a flower, and creating a seed craft where we cut out our hand print, glued a seed onto that hand and wrote the word seed.
See everyone soon!
Xoxo Miss Audra
While we are waiting for our flowers to grow we have taken lima bean seeds and planted those in wet cotton balls. I was asked if it was going to grow or not, because it did not have any soil, and based on what we have been learning about what a plant needs to grow that was a very good question. So we waited a couple days and the lima bean seeds started to grow roots! I was told that the lima bean was growing much faster than the flower plants were. Very true.
On one of the beautiful days we had this week, we explored a couple different kinds of dirt outside using magnifying glasses. We identified similarities and differences in the dirt and over the matter of 10 minutes or so we even began to notice that the moist soil was drying out on the top. I was informed by the kids that “the sun is taking the soil’s water just like it takes our water when we are outside; that’s why we have to drink so much water Ms. Audra. We should water the soil!”
We painted our own version of a garden; painting flowers, grass, trees, squirrels, our family members, rainbows and a cow. Very creative thinking on these ones and great for practicing colour mixing!
On Monday, we adventured to a new park where we practiced new skills; climbing nets and different types of ladders, walking along moving bases, and climbing rock walls. It was great that there was a number wall there to practice identifying numbers! The kids were also amazed to see an ant hill where the ants were guarding the entrance to their home…we could tell they thought of us as enemies. At the park we used the teeter totter to investigate weight. Why does the teeter totter lean to one side when there are bigger people on that side? What about when there are more of less people on one side? How can we make the teeter totter level? It was a lot of fun investigating this!
This week we re-visited the letter sounds for A and B and brainstormed of the words that start with those letters. Everyone is getting really good at coming up with these words! By the end of the week we had almost 50 B words! After brainstorming our initial words that start with a particular letter we have been practicing our copying and letter formation by writing some choice words. The day after we begin brainstorming, words everyone chose their favourite ie: letter A word and wrote that word and created something to represent that word.
With our circle time calendar routine, we have started to not only spell out the days of the week and month of the year, but also sound them out; identifying when vowels are using which of their two sounds.
On Thursday we explored Nosehill. We explored “Porcupine Valley” where we hiked up higher than we ever had before, spotted many beetles which we had to stop and water every time, saw new growing plants, and stumbled across porcupine quills. We even found some words that started with the letter B while we were there (bug, beetle, bud, butterfly).
Some other things we have done this week include; threading beads onto a pipe cleaner and then twisted it in different ways to form a flower, and creating a seed craft where we cut out our hand print, glued a seed onto that hand and wrote the word seed.
See everyone soon!
Xoxo Miss Audra
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