Thursday and Friday

It was so much fun celebrating Spirit Week with the kinders.  As you'll see by the pictures, we have been moving and laughing a lot this week.  Here are our last couple of days:

Thursday

Pretending to be butterflies: Did you know butterflies hear with their antennae, taste with 

their feet, and drink nectar through a straw-like mouth (a proboscis) that they unroll and roll back up?

Here are our little caterpillars.  They've already doubled in size in only a week! 

Friday

We had a Gym Blast today, which was a series of silly games.  Each child in the entire school got to participate in one of 12 games.  The kindergartners had to bounce ping pong balls out of their Kleenex box by jumping and shaking.  It was a lot of fun!

Learning About Butterflies

Today was 'Dress Like a Teacher' Day at Bannatyne.  There were so many cute little teachers running around.  These miniature Mme Katie made us all laugh.  Evelyn and Cayden both had little monster stuffed animals under their shirts and Evelyn laughingly told me that my baby would be cuter than hers! So much fun!

We also officially started learning about the butterfly life cycle. We looked at pictures and props before acting out the stages.  Did you know a caterpillar pops its head off as it gets too big for it?!  It sheds its head five times before building its chrysalis.  Another interesting fact: a butterfly isn't just a caterpillar with wings.  When it enters its chrysalis, it breaks down into black goo, a pile of cells which rebuilds itself into a whole new creature, the butterfly.

We are eggs that have been laid on a leaf.  

We are the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

We've come out of our eggs and we are little caterpillars who spend our days 

eating, pooping(!), and resting. We also pop our heads off as we outgrow them.

 

We are spinning our silk chrysalises as we dangle under a leaf.  We break down into black goo before rebuilding ourselves as butterflies.

We emerge and pump coloured ink into our wings and wait for 

them to dry before we can fly.  Then we lay new eggs!

Farm Field Trip

Today we had an amazing day at Six Pines Farm.  We did so many amazing things:

Met and pet kittens, bunnies and one very lucky dog named Houston

Met and pet Norman the rooster and a fluffy little chick

Saw emus, peacocks, ducks, and all sorts of geese

Played in the farm's playground

Fed milk to a noisy, slurping calf

Climbed into a tree fort for a group picture

Rode a Morgan horse and a Palomino pony

 

Ate a picnic lunch in the grass

Went on a hayride

Met and pet donkeys and miniature horses

Met and pet lambs who were as young as 7 days old, and met a cranky goat

Met and pet three gentle, smiling llamas