Happy New Year! January 6 - 10, 2020!

Hi Families,

Happy New Year!! After listening to each other in our sharing circles and sharing our holiday journals, it sounds like everyone had a wonderful winter break!

Here are some stories from our week!

Measuring
We all grew over the holiday so we took turns measuring how tall we are. 

Classroom Critters!
On Monday, we wished our pet fish a happy new year and we cleaned their fish tank. We also checked on our vermi composter worms and cleaned out their home. We gave them some fresh newspaper and some coffee grounds and vegetable scraps so they have something to eat.


Sorting
Some of us brought beautiful junk collections to school that we collected over the holidays. We took turns talking about our collections and then worked as a class to decide how we could sort them. Most collections we sorted by colour, shape, and size!


Not a Box
We read the story 'Not a Box' and used boxes, tubes, bottles, and beautiful junk to make him and we called him Mr. Robot. He likes to read books from our reading centre.
  

Chicka Chicka Alphabet
We opened 2 new letters this week - our V and U. V was made of velcro and had violet flowers stuck to it. U was a unicorn and an umbrella. We have 10 more letters to go before we finish our alphabet - we hope they come in the mail soon!!


Forest Footprints
On Thursday, we went to the forest and found all sorts of animal tracks. We think some of them were bunny tracks and some were squirrel tracks. We followed the tracks all around the forest. We went up and down hills, under branches, and through bushes! We never found the end of the tracks but it was so fun to follow!


New Plants
We have lots of new plants in our classroom. We planted one that came already growing in a box! We have watched it this week and even though it is starting to flower it is growing sideways! It must have been very squished in that box.
We also are trying to grow our own baby spider plants by pulling them off the big plant and floating them in water. When the roots are growing we'll know they're ready to plant.