Week of October 30th

Halloween Fun

This week was an exciting and busy week in Room 7! Thank you to everyone who was able to support our class at the Halloween Parade/Performance and the class party!

Minnie-Mouse filling in missing letters on the Morning Message.

Bat Girl writing in her bat book!

Writing and drawing in to our pumpkin, ghost and bat books.

Exploring with mirrors and Halloween Loose Parts Play.

Halloween Bingo

Creative Corner

Students had the chance to explore and sketch a variety of pumpkins, gourds and squash. They first drew the shapes they saw in pencil and then added colour using oil pastel. They made some great observations about what they noticed, and made predictions about what was inside. 

Science

Ms. Desilva asked the class for some help this week. She needed to figure out how to get 2 paperclips out of a vase filled with water. The students came up with some really interesting ways to solve the problem.

Solution: Put your hand into  the vase and pick them up.

Problem: Ms. Desilva didn't want to get her hands wet.

Solution: Pour the water down the drain.

Problem: The water was very special and she didn't want it going down the drain.

Solution: Pour the water into another container instead of down the drain.

Problem: We didn't have another container.

Solution: Stick a pencil in to fish the paperclips out.

Problem: We didn't want to get the pencil wet.

Ms. Desilva showed the class a magnet and asked what they might be able to do with it. The class was amazed when she put the magnet on the side of the vase and was able to pull the paperclips up the side and out the top! We had a short discussion on different materials and will be launching a Unit Of Inquiry about materials later next week.

Literacy

The letter of the week was Nn. 

To form the uppercase N we following these steps:

- Start at the top.

- Big line down.

- Frog Jump to the top.

- Big line down on a diagonal.

- Big line straight up.

*Make sure to lift up your pencil and do a "frog jump" for the uppercase N.

To form the lowercase n we follow these steps:

- Start at the top.

- Dive down.

- Swim up and around.

*We do not lift up our pencil when forming the lowercase n.

Jolly Phonics Song

Hear the aeroplane,

/n/ /n/ /n/.

Hear the aeroplane,

/n/ /n/ /n/.

Hear the aeroplane,

/n/ /n/ /n/.

Making lots of noise!