Monday, 18 December 2017

The past week has continued to busy as the children have been participating in several Christmas activities. We made wooden ornaments with our Grade 7 buddies and hung them on our school's outdoor Christmas tree in Gerry's Garden. Then we joined our buddies in their classroom for some hot chocolate.


  Last week, Evie brought in a menorah for sharing and we read a few stories about how Hanukkah is celebrated. Today we learned how to play dreidels and the children had a blast!
 In science we have been finishing our inquiry about Patterns in the Sky. The children researched the constellation they were born under, and we made models of them using marshmallows and toothpicks.

In our most recent Outdoor Learning afternoon, we continued to discuss animal adaptations in winter, specifically camouflage. Then Mrs. K and Mrs. Batista gave each pair of children a potato, and the task of taking materials from the forest in order to camouflage the potato. Afterwards, we hid the potatoes amongst the forest and then searched for our friends'.