News for April 15
This week the students focused on spring and lego!
The big project this week was working with lego and using what we know about making structures and buildings to create models. First we learned about the toy lego. Did you know that it was invented in Denmark over 60 years ago? "Leg godt" means "play well" in Danish.
The children learned about a man in England named James May who, as a child, had a dream to make a real house out of lego. In 2009 he did it and we looked at a book of pictures that showed the lego house and all the lego furniture inside. There was a lego bed, lego slippers and even a lego toaster! As always, more information about the books we read can be found at our sister blog:
The students did an amazing job creating their lego models. There were cakes, fire trucks, castles and even a horse! Then each child sat with me and orally told me a story featuring what they had made. I typed the story into my computer and these will become, along with a photo of the child and his/her model, a book. When we are done, we will have 41 lego story books!
The class practised the "One Bottle of Pop" song and actions and learned how to read all of the words to the song. A copy of the words was sent home with your child on Friday.
In math, the students reviewed counting backwards starting at 3, 5 and 10. They also learned about skip-counting by 2's (that is 2,4,6,8,10).
The class continued to monitor our rose plant. The plant is still alive but the flowers are dying and the students looked at the petals and seeds from the flowers with magnifying glasses.
The children used what they know about the seasons to help them figure out the order of the seasons (that is, What makes sense?) . We also reviewed the names and order of the months of the year.
The weather was nice enough this week for the children, during outdoor play time, to play with balls, hula hoops and tricycles. The afternoon class even had a chance to draw on the ground with chalk!
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