Fairy Tale Land!

Building a Fairy Tale Land

This construction project began in the second week of October and has not stopped! Our students have developed an interest in castles and fairy tales. It started with just a few towers then expanded into a whole Fairy Tale Land.

We collected fiction and non-fiction books on the subject of castles and several fairy tale books.The students looked through these books and decided what our Fairy Tale Land needed. 

"I see a Bridge".

"They have windows".

"Castles have big towers"

"Kings and queens and prince and princesses live there".

"I see pathways". 

Students worked together and created such beautiful pieces of art such as, towers, bridges, carriages, treasure chests, princes, princesses, kings, and much more.   

After reading many Fairy Tales we learned more about the princesses we love and added things to Fairy Tale land that were important to their stories. The students added an ocean and a ship for the Little Mermaid and a forest for Snow White. The students also thought the princesses would like a place to relax and have fun, so they made a tree house!

Our Fairy Tale Land has allowed students to engage in conversation, ask questions and use their imaginations to create stories with the characters they love.

Here is our castle! The fun continues.

Looking ahead…

Students are developing an interest in writing letters to their favourite Disney characters. We are hoping to send these letters out to Disney Land!

What is Peace?

After reading Todd Parr's book called "The Peace Book" students reflected on what peace could be.
This book inspired our class to create a video as to what peace means to them.

Peace is when you share. Peace is helping the world be clean. Peace is being free. Peace is being nice. Peace is helping your neighbours. Peace is hugging people. Peace is being quiet. Peace is when you don't hit people. Peace is when someone loves you. Peace is helping people. Peace is when you share with friends. Peace is when you share a flower to somebody. Peace is being helpful. Peace is when everyone has a home. Peace is making a world a better place. Peace is when you love your mommy and daddy. 

What Can You Do With a Pumpkin?

Last week each math group was given a pumpkin and the question - 'what can you do with a pumpkin?'

 

We read a number of pumpkin stories and non-fiction texts and got to work!

 

Each group measure their pumpkin in a variety of ways to see how tall, how fat, and how heavy the pumpkin was.

 

We asked a lot of interesting pumpkin questions:

-Why do pumpkins turn orange?

- Why is one side of the pumpkin flat?

-Do pumpkins grow on trees?

-What animals eat pumpkins?

 

And we experimented with our pumpkins to find some answers:

 

Do pumpkins float in water? Yes, they do!

 

 

How can a kid move a pumpkin when it is too heavy to list it? We can attach it to string and pull it!

 

How far can we push a pumpkin? Let's have a bowling race!

 

 

We opened our pumpkins and sorted the seeds. We made predictions of how many seed were in our pumpkin, and we discussed together different ways to count our seeds. By 2s, by 5s, and by 10s.

 

 

Then of course, we made faces on our pumpkins. One is happy, one is a star, one is scary, and one is a picture of Sad Monster!