February & March

Our class has been busy studying our five senses and making observations using sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.  Lots of fun and interesting work with Snow Investigations, Exploding Snowmen, Melting Snowmen, and Dancing Popcorn!  We have also been working on a novel study of Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, highlighting story elements such as character, settings, and events.  We created our own Flat Characters (by putting our bodies through the sensory equipment we've named 'The Squisher') and are currently writing our own adventure stories.  This will lead us to some letter writing work in the upcoming month.  Mathematic activities using probability and positional concepts will also be part of our curricular focus.  

November, December & January

Happy Fall!  We've had many opportunities to discuss the season cycle and use harvested foods for sensory activities.  It turns out our class is a crew of great chefs and we have had lots of fun using recipes to cook and reinforce everyday concepts of sequencing, quantities and measurement.  We have also enjoyed having opportunities to cook, create, and collaborate with our neighbours from Krista's class!  Socializing with others is a big part of our learning process and we have enjoyed 40 days of interactions, communication and play with our friends!

September & October

What a great start to our school year!  We are happy to have Aria Rae, Charlie, Cohen, Kailani, Messiah and Sukhraj return to our class this year, and are very excited to learn about our new classmate Aria!  We began with shared readings of If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff and have used the story as inspiration to create our own sequence stories with our favourite places around the school.  We will move forward with a study of school and family communities, and discuss similarities and differences in our families as a context for data collection and mathematical thinking.  Our staff team of Carly, Emily, Nicole and Colleen are all looking forward to an amazing new year of learning, friendship and fun!