When playing outside, Tammy and Alessa decided to make a rock collection. Then they sorted their rocks based on certain proprieties that they selected such as size, color, and texture.

Click here to listen to Alessa and Tammy explaining how they sorted their rocks: Tammy and Alessa`s rock collection



Chili, our pet frog, likes to eat crickets. You can view the video about crickets that Sean made. Do not forget to read our inquiry on crickets under the "Our Inquiries" tab.

 

 

At recess, Anthony found a leaf . We noticed something growing straight up from the leaf. We brought the leaf inside to ask his friends what they thought was growing on the leaf. Here are their answers:

- pointy stuff (Joanna-Lee)
- spikes (Colin)
- branches
- egg from a creature
- leaves growing on a leaf (Devin)
- pokes
- something spiky that turns into a color and you get to pick up the spikes (Adam)

After looking on the Internet under Leaf Spikes, we found this picture. It explains that the spikes are some sort of leaf gall, possibly caused by an insect.



 

The children got to explore yellow Space Sand. Here are a few observations made by the children:

- soft (Tianna)
- not wet, feels like glue (Devin)
- it`s kind of wet and "sinky" (Christina)
- dried (Jackson)
- cool water (Brandon)
- it feels like sand (Giuliana M.)
- "saltly" and soft (Alessa)
- soft (Tammy)
- soft (Arman)
- sand (Sean)
- softly- It reminded her when she went to the beach with her cousin. (Giuliana G.)

Yellow Space Sand in our water table

This afternoon, Alessio, Brandon, Antonio, Folu and Jackson had a little competition going on, who would build the longest snake. They took turns counting cubes. James and Adam helped count the very long snakes who had more than 80 cubes. They discovered that Alessio`s snake was the longest and Folu's the shortest.

Christina, Alessa, Arman, James, Adam and Tianna wrote words starting with the letter A phonetically.

Tianna wanted to make an Egg Hunt outside for all her friends. With the help of Christina, Giuliana M., Ava and Kaitlyn they wrote the names of all their classmates. The names were put inside plastic eggs. Some students practised their fine motor skills by cutting ears for their bunny hat. Students had lots of fun looking for eggs and at the same time learning new friends' names.



In the Science Centre, the students are exploring with glass beads.

Tammy's pattern: small circle and acorn

Tianna and Christina's design

                                           

In our Science Centre, we have placed a light table. The children were encouraged to collect things in their outdoor environment and to observe them on the light table. Devin noticed that some objects were more shiny than others. He explained that the objects that were less shiny had more material and the ones more shiny had less material.

Mrs. Cole, Tianna and Christina sorted the objects in two categories: opaque and transparent.















Adam made a list of the objects collected.

 

List of objects collected: wood chips, leaf, rock