Friendship Fruit Salad

One of our favourite activities so far this year was our friendship fruit salad. I asked the children to each bring in a fruit from home. The students shared what they brought and described their fruit in three different ways. We talked about what we could make with all of the fruits...(hint-fruit salad). We talked about how because we all brought in something our fruit salad would be so much better than if we just eat our own fruit. I wanted to show the students that we truly are better together. We are all different and special and all bring different qualities with us that makes the group so much better than us alone. We tallied the fruit and graphed the fruit and then cut it all up and topped it with whipped cream. Yummy!

The children also wanted me to share a video we have been watching about eating healthy so that they can watch it at home too.

http://youtu.be/AEuRM5YSyGo

Enjoy!

Happy Fall!

Happy First Day of Fall!
This week we spoke a lot about the changes of the seasons. I asked the students to collect leaves whenever they saw some, at home, recess, or out for a walk with their families. When leaves were brought in we celebrated the uniqueness and similarities of each leaf. Our carpet conversations led to talking about the life cycle of a leaf, how trees and leaves get food, different colours we see at different times of the year and so on. Friday the students were excited to try an art activity with their favourite leaf.

I opened the art centre as part of our daily play/choice time. We used acrylic paint and dipped our favourite leaves in a whole bunch of colours.  We then used the leaf as a stamp. We had fun trying to the perfect amount of paint on the leaf to make the best stamped leaf. We posted our finished product on our "Masterpiece" wall. This wall is where students put up their best work in squares that look like little frames. Throughout the year they choose what work they would like to showcase.

Welcome

Welcome everyone! We are so excited that you came to visit and are going to share this journey with us. This blog is an online journal that we will use to share our day to day learning with you.

See you again soon!
Mrs. Luke