News for May 19
The big news for this four-day week was the sprouting and planting of the student's bean seeds. The children learned about the roots and stems and leaves and when planting the sprouted seed, to put the roots in the soil and the stem outside to get the sun. The children took home their plants this week. Now the class knows beans and bean plants very well, we also read aloud the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. We compared the bean seed to the seed of an avocado, which is much larger and a different colour. Students also had a chance to taste avocado at the snack table.
In math, we started a unit on money. The children learned about the six different Canadian coins. We learned about the different names, sizes and colours of the coins. The first activity was to take a box of "play money" and sort the coins into the six different types.
The senior kindergarten students reading levels were formally assessed this week as required by the school board.
We reviewed the different ways to tell a story by reading Robert Munsch's book, Moira's Birthday and watching the video. The students are getting very good at paying attention to the differences in the story book and the movie. As usual, more information about the books we read together can be found at our sister blog:
The big news this week was the arrival of our new fish! Beta is now in our fish tank to be a new friend to Alpha and George. The children were all very excited and made some very good comparisons to the "old" Beta. For example, they were able to comment on the size of the fish (much smaller - Alpha now looks like a giant!), the colours and the shape and size of its fins.
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