Peek at Our Week (and Oh! What a Week!)

We completed our shark study this week.  After painting and cutting out our 12 metre whale shark, it was time to tape him up on the long wall beside the office.

 

On Wednesday we had bus ridership with the grade 5 students.  We got to sit on the bus and learn all of the bus rules from Bus Driver Bob.    

 We did our shark activity baskets all week.  They were a hit.

 Shark Puzzles

 

 

Shark Research 

 

 Shark Directed Drawing

 

Shark Pokey Pins

 

 

Shark Playdough

Check out these awesome hammerheads!

Our caterpillars arrived in the mail!  We will start learning about butterflies next week.

 We made shark tooth necklaces.  We shaped them out of clay and waited a day for it to dry.

We added wire and cord to make our cool necklaces.

Making Progress...

Today we finished our shark puppets and brought them home.  We also got a chance to look up close at some REAL shark teeth!  We also drew our gigantic whal shark and started decorating him.

Sharks in Kindergarten!!

Today we continued our shark study by folding our chomping Great White shark puppets, gluing on a dorsal fin, drawing his scary teeth, and painting him all gray.  Tomorrow we will add some finishing touches.

We will also start drawing, cutting out and decorating our 40-foot requin-baleine (whale shark).  He's the biggest fish in the world and he ranges between 12 and 15 m long.  We had to measure out our paper in the hallway!  Mme Boyko said we could post him on the long wall by the office so all the other kids can see him when we are finished.  Can you believe how long he is?!

Peek at Our Week

We started our week with Music Monday.  It started with a K-2 talent show in the gym.  Five members of our PM class were chosen to perform!

Next we went to the library for a drama clinic.

 After that we went to the music room for a dance clinic.

Finally we went to a music clinic with JP Hoe, who is a well-known Winnipeg artist.  We got to sing with him.

We also started our shark study.  We made a shark sensory bin habitat with water beads.  We got to watch thousands of beads grow and grow before adding our sharks (which we can name!).  We play with our new bin every day.

Earth Day

This week we have been learning about Earth Day.  We read books and talked about what we could do to help our environment.

Brody presented a scrapbook from his trip to Texas.  

We loved his drawings and we laughed and laughed at his stories.

We made Earth necklaces out of plasticine and went outside today to clean up our school courtyard.  Thank you to Mme Christy (Garcia's's mom) who came in to read to us today!  We also had an Earth Day assembly in the gym.  We watched dance club, drum club and the jump rope team perform.