This week we said good bye to a fully bloomed butterfly who is ready for Kindergarten! We are sad to say goodbye but know that she will do amazing during this next step. We celebrated her last day with a PJ party!
Oh Canada! What a great week leading up to Canada Day! We were all really excited to say Happy Birthday to Canada and sang our nation anthem every day. We learned about what the Canada flag is and what a maple leaf is. We were fortunate to have a maple tree just a few houses away where we were about to snip a couple leaves off to glue onto our popsicle stick Canada flag. It was puzzling for some as to why this maple leaf was green and not red; good chance for us to revisit what happens in the Fall time! We also made a larger scale Canadian flag on a canvas where we had to work as a team to finger paint the red areas.
We explored our Canadian north by learning about Inukshuks and the Aurora Borealis. What is an Inukshuk? We built is using different types of blocks; exploring how different blocks can or cannot support the next blocks to be added to an Inukshuk. A question was asked about how the rocks could be moved since they were so large and heavy. There were a couple of guesses; a lot of people had to help and animals had to pull them because animals are stronger. Everyone was amazed to see the rainbow colours of the Aurora Borealis in the sky up north. We explored using watercolours on top of a wax drawing. It was neat to see how the lines showed up even as we painted on them. Then we used paper squares and rectangles to make an Inukshuk to be the foreground of our artwork.
Animals are always and area of interest here at Blooming Butterflies, so we brainstormed all the different animals we thought may live here. There were many great guesses! We then used images of Canadian animals and other images widely seen as Canadian to play a matching and memory game.
Some other things we did this week include creating a Canada Day firework craft using Q-Tips dipped in paint, a letter scavenger hunt, sponge painting with a favourite letter, word work with the letter P and an outdoor adventure that led us to a little valley where we saw many new things; trees, flowers, a creek, etc.
Xoxo Miss Audra
Oh Canada! What a great week leading up to Canada Day! We were all really excited to say Happy Birthday to Canada and sang our nation anthem every day. We learned about what the Canada flag is and what a maple leaf is. We were fortunate to have a maple tree just a few houses away where we were about to snip a couple leaves off to glue onto our popsicle stick Canada flag. It was puzzling for some as to why this maple leaf was green and not red; good chance for us to revisit what happens in the Fall time! We also made a larger scale Canadian flag on a canvas where we had to work as a team to finger paint the red areas.
We explored our Canadian north by learning about Inukshuks and the Aurora Borealis. What is an Inukshuk? We built is using different types of blocks; exploring how different blocks can or cannot support the next blocks to be added to an Inukshuk. A question was asked about how the rocks could be moved since they were so large and heavy. There were a couple of guesses; a lot of people had to help and animals had to pull them because animals are stronger. Everyone was amazed to see the rainbow colours of the Aurora Borealis in the sky up north. We explored using watercolours on top of a wax drawing. It was neat to see how the lines showed up even as we painted on them. Then we used paper squares and rectangles to make an Inukshuk to be the foreground of our artwork.
Animals are always and area of interest here at Blooming Butterflies, so we brainstormed all the different animals we thought may live here. There were many great guesses! We then used images of Canadian animals and other images widely seen as Canadian to play a matching and memory game.
Some other things we did this week include creating a Canada Day firework craft using Q-Tips dipped in paint, a letter scavenger hunt, sponge painting with a favourite letter, word work with the letter P and an outdoor adventure that led us to a little valley where we saw many new things; trees, flowers, a creek, etc.
Xoxo Miss Audra
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