Students are learning about Life Cycles in this unit. We are building our understanding of life cycles, and as we do this we add to the board. We are doing this in both English and French! So far we have looked at the life cycles of the bee, butterfly and frog. Students are having fun learning words like chrysalis and metamorphosis! Students have realised that the life cycles are similar in many ways.
We have been reading, discussing, singing, and creating actions for the story "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" by Roxanne Lanczak Williams. Today we made a web about things that we can reuse based on the book. The students talked about making crafts out of unwanted items such as boxes, egg cartons old paper etc. I encourage you to help your child create a "junk box" at home with items that can be reused for many purposes including crafts. The students were discussing making crafts out of these items. If you do this please send it in to school. This is a great way students can take action at home by applying what they are learning at school.
Our unit is about exploring through the arts. As a class we read the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" and then students enjoyed acting out the story in the drama centre.
Students have learned the letter G this past week. They enjoyed exploring letter shapes using bendable was sticks called wiki sticks!
Last week we were brainstorming different community helpers, and different types of communities. This week we have been adding community helpers to the different types of communities they belong in. We discovered that many community helpers are necessary in all types of communities, but some like news reporters are mostly found in the city while farmers are mostly found in the country.
This week we have started a new unit on communities. We have been discussing how there are different types of communities and different people in them. For example we had been talking about how farmers are found in rural (country) areas. While making a chart of urban, rural and suburban communities. One student looked at the fish tank and said "The fish tank is a community, because it has 3 fish all together in it".
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April 2016
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