Water Beads
We added water to the beads.
Observations made by the students:
Alyssia: "Theyare gooey and squishy."
Camille: "They are squishy and round."
Saanvi: "They are slippery and when you squeeze them, they brake."
Talia: "Some of them broke."
Antonio: "I think they are going to go small. It makes stuff look bigger."
Badri: "It look like water and balls. It is squishy, bouncy and really fast."
Sean: "It looks like a brake ball."
James: "They are really squishy. It get squishy when wet."
Heather: "They are jelly."
Alessa: "They're kind of squishy."
Alyssia: "They feel like jelly."
Isabella: "They are light and they can grow. They are delicate. If you step on them, they are going to brake."
Sofia: "They are really big."
Naomi: "They are bigger than the other. If you put them in the water, they get bigger. It fee like kind of wet after."
Tammy: "cold and soft."
Olivia: "They gre bigger."
Talia: When you put them in the water I think they are going to go bigger. They are so they can suck up the water."
Gerril: "It is really wet. I like it because it is soft."
Koren: "They are very very squishy. They are wet too."
Sean: "They are brake balls. Me and Antonio feel them and it is like braking."
Observations made by the students:
* They are necklace beads.
* If you add water to the beads they will float.
* They are blue, green, and silver beads.
* They are little beads.
* They look like circle beads.
* They will get smaller when we add water to them.
* They feel hard.
* They feel like squishy eggs.
* They are sticky balls.
* They are Ora beads, they grow bigger and bigger.
* They look like beattles and they will drown in water.
* They look like marbles.
Life Cycle of the Butterfly
Day 28
After many days of rain, we finally got a warm day to release our butterflies.
Day 22
Some of our butterflies have hatched. See one butterfly breaking out of its chrysalids.
Day 14
Observations made by the children:
"Hanging", Aysha and Ms Handerson
"Soft", Gerril and Ms Handerson
"Beg", Ryan
"Cacune", (cacoon) Brickelle
Days 7, 8 and 9
Observations written by students:
"Legs", Zoltan
"Big", Fabiana
"Lots of legs", Devin and Mrs Tina
"Gron op", (going up) Christopher
"Litt Hair", Tara
"Making a cocon", Antonio and Mme Maklin
"It is not moving", James and Mme Maklin
"Dad", (it is pretending to be dead), Isabella
"It is not moving", Heather and Mme Maklin
"Moving``, Alyssia
"Rle Beg", Sofia
"Big", Camille
"Grow", Talia
"Tie", (tiny) Olivia
"Black", Ellio and Mrs Tina
"Looks like a cricket", Lucas and Mme Maklin
"Stiky", Sofia
"Moyen", Naomi and Ms Handerson
"Huge," Olivia
"Litle", Alessa
"Gros," Saanvi and Ms Handerson
"Small," Tammy and Ms Handerson
"They hatch from eggs", Jacob and Ms Handerson
"Is looking scared", Keira and Ms Handerson
"Gros", Heather and Ms Handerson
Day 2
Obervations written by students:
"Up", (They go "up" the container) Emilia
"Tane", (tiny) Tara
"Up, up, up", Chiara
"Smill" (small), Lucas
"Small", Gabriela
"Spice", Kaylee
"Groweng", (growing) Siena
Making lists
We have been reading procedural texts to create an art activity and to make a recipe. Together, we are learning to make lists of food, flowers, material and lists of steps to make or create something.
 |
| Art Activity |
 |
| Recipe |
 |
| List of flowers |
 |
| Grocery list |
Growing Wheat Grass
Children are using their Five Senses to explore the wheat grass.
Dry:
- Looks like birdseed or beads. (Jacob)
- Small and cold. (Keira)
- Seeds are brown and hard. (Annamaria)
- Some are white and oval. (Alexandra)
- Tiny seeds. (Saanvi)
- They are made from wheat and smell like a pumpkin. (Naomi)
- It is seeds and they are brown. (Sean)
- They are soft and smooth. (Antonio)
- It smells like a rose. (Alyssia)
- They feel soft and are light brown. (James)
- The tips hurt your fingers, they are a little bit hard. (Camille)
- They feel like dried up rice. (Sofia)
- They are small. (Tara)
- They are tiny. (Summer)
- They have a crack in them. (Jermmaine)
- You can see inside of them. (Luca S.)
- They are light brown. (Zoltan)
Wet:
- It looks like strawberry seeds. (Antonio)
- They are bigger now. (Antonio)
- They are soft. (Ryan & Alyssia)
- Brown. (Tammy)
- It smells like corn. (Talia)
- It is mushy and smells juicy. (Alessa)
- It grew and now it smells funny. (Heather)
- It is a little sticky. (Josie-Ann)
- It is a little soft and it smells like porridge. (Annemarie)
- They smell the same as when they were dry. (Kaylee)
- It has a stronger smell. (Summer)
- They are kind of small. (Tara)
- They are squishy. (Tara)
Train
Naomi: "We colr in the train wf flawerz n hrts nda trez. We put aplz."
"We colored in the train with flowers and hearts and trees. We put apples."
Gerril: "I put tirz. I put drawin."`
"I put tires. I put drawings."
Sean: "I ded du welv. I colr v snaq."
"I did the wheels. I colored the snake."
Aysha: "I de ye cemputr."
"I did a computer."
Alessa: "I pt n o."
"I put an egg."
Heather discovered that the train measures 8 eggs.
Train Tickets: The students made train tickets and left Ottawa for Forida, the ocean or other wonderful destinations.
Castle
Lucas wanted to learn to build a castle. He wanted to make a round castle. First, we used tubes and tape to make the base. The students added walls, a drawbridge, a door and a throne. Finally, they dressed up as prince, princess or a knight and made jewellery and crowns to complete their costums.
French words that were used in this project: le château, les murs, le pont-levis, la douve, la porte, le trône, le prince, la princesse, le dragon.
Science Discoveries
We put food coloring in water and then the jars were put in the sun. The students made observations of what they observed. Here are their observations.
Chiara: It leaks.
Mme Maklin: Where did it leak?
Chiara: It was raining and then it turned down and then it was down.
Siena: The water went lower?
Mme Maklin: Why?
Siena: Because...
Luca M.: The water went lower.
Mrs Banks: Why?
Luca M.: Because of the sun.
Christopher: The colors are darker. First the colors were lighter then it went darker.
Summer: The water melted from the sun. The water is getting lower and it's going away slow, slow, slow! The sun gets in it.
Naomi: Last time there was a little more and this time there is less. There is less water.
Antonio: The water evaporated.
Adam: There was more water.
Mme Maklin: What happened?
Adam: It went to the ground to make plants grow.
Making connections
Sofia: Orange makes me think of the Little People Kitty.
Olivia: Blue makes me think of the magnifying glass.
Talia: Red reminds me of red jello.
Heather: Green reminds me of the grass outside.
Naomi: All the colours remind me of the jars and the rainbow.
Alyssia: If you mix the blue colour you can make green. It reminds me of water.
Isabella: The blue makes me think of the blue tables in our room.
Antonio: Blue reminds me of my mom`s bed and my dad`s football team.
James: The red reminds me of the story Apple Trouble in Mrs. VanWesterop`s class.
No comments:
Post a Comment