April Showers!

Spring has finally arrived... We can finally go outside without ski pants, we will celebrate Easter and Earth Day and we are in the final stretch of the school year! Check out our new art projects, our non-fiction animal posters, penpal writing and what we have been learning about in science. 

Our study of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia inspired us to create sailboat art!

It's raining, it's pouring!

Reading and writing all about a variety of animals.

Name that liquid...

We learned a few new words such as absorption, transparent, translucent and opaque.

We wrote back to our penpals at Royal School.

Easter math... the equations were hidden in the eggs.  We had to use magnifying glasses to find the tiny equations.

Find an egg and answer the question inside.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Winter (and Christmas)!

We have been extremely busy throughout the month of November and now the beginning of December. Students worked very hard to have their portfolios ready to share with their families. We are now busy finishing up our final winter concert rehearsals and look forward to concert day on Thursday! We have begun a countdown in the classroom to winter break and we will all need the break after these past couple of exciting and busy months.

Below are a few pictures to highlight what we have been up to.

We designed bird feeders

We  began our gingerbread man theme

We are learning to compare and contrast stories

We are learning about primary and secondary colours

We are learning all about place value and the value of a digit depending on the place it is in

Animal Research and Habitats

We have been working tirelessly on our animal research and habitats over the past month. We have finally completed our non-fiction books, habitats and voice recordings of our non-fiction books. I am very proud of all the hard work my students have put into each project. They are eager to share what they have learned with their friends and families.I used Amanda Tervoort's non-fiction writing project template from TPT to create the non-fiction books. I also used a website called Voki to create the voice recordings. They are quite funny and we enjoyed listening to each of the recordings.

Writing out the "good copy" of the non-fiction book!

The finished product! Each student chose a different animal.

We worked with a wonderful artist that helped us create a zoo incorporating all of the Manitoba animals researched.

We planned out where each animal should go in the zoo.

The monarch butterfly habitat!

The tundra swan habitat!

The Arctic fox habitat!

We put the zoo together! Looks FANTASTIC!!

Jobs That Involve Taking Care of Living Things

We created a blog post together today. Check it out below!

We learned about how to take care of living things. It was exciting to watch the videos about all of the different jobs.
Here is a list of some of the jobs that we learned about:
1. gardener
2. zookeeper
3. vet
4. landscaper
5. doctor
6. dentist
7. teachers/parents
8. scientists
9. nurses

You have to learn about these jobs before you do them!
Be sure to take care of all living things!!

Here are the ideas we came up with!

We Have Been Busy!

I'm glad to have completed report cards and now I'm looking forward to a restful Spring Break... My students have been busy designing pencil crayon holders as a culminating activity to our Science unit on Objects and Materials. They did a great job and are very proud of their finished products.  Before beginning their pencil crayon holders they created a design plan and we created a list of criteria as a class. 

Criteria for the pencil crayon holder:

- Must hold at least 20 pencil crayons

- Must be easy to carry 

- Must look nice

- Be CREATIVE!
Click here to download a copy of the design plan template