The Rainbow Fish

One of my all time favourite book is, The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister. I remember listening to this book being read to me by my school's librarian when I was a little girl! So, I obviously had to share it with my class in the beginning of the school year. I also took this opportunity to dress-up as the Rainbow Fish! 

 

For art, we created a school of fish. We took bubble wrap and painted on fish scales. 

We also had a sensory station and explored the deep blue sea for exotic things! "I feel something prickly..."

At the end of the school day, I shared my scales with each student, just like in the book! They loved it!

The Perfect Square

We've been learning about shapes in class and read the book, Perfect Square, by Michael Hall. Afterwards, the children became creative cats in the making of their mathematical art masterpiece from a perfect square. Look at all of the shapes that they used!

Up, up & away!

At the end of last year, we read the Dr. Seuss book, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Afterwards, we made our own papier-mâché hot air balloons. What a fun project for the kids!

Gigantic Sunflowers!

All week, we have been reading the big book, The Sunflower Tree by Elizabeth Pulford. 

This book is about Mr. Potter who grows a gigantic sunflower tree that grows, grows, GROWS!  

STEM:  The children were challenged to build the tallest sunflower tree out of play-doh, pipe cleaners and Fruit Loops!

Science:  We also fermented our own seeds and grew them in plastic baggies. The children could choose from bean seeds, pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds. 

Art:  We studied Vincent van Gogh and created our own sunflowers that came to life! We even used actual seeds!

Goodbye Jitters!

A great way to make those first day jitters disappear, is to make and drink Jitter Juice with your class!

My kids loved the book, First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg. BUT, they loved making Jitter Juice even more! We combined punch, Sprite and sorbet to help us to get rid of our first day jitters! The kids were buzzing all day and the following day about how there jitters were gone! 

A New Year!

I welcomed my brand new class today! Hello 2017!