Week 26: Luck and Worms

Books We Read
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Scaredy Squirrel
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Diary of a Worm

Song of the Week
To Find a Four Leaf Clover

To find a four leaf clover
Go looking in the yard
You look around all over
You need to look real hard

It doesn't cost a penny
It doesn't cost a buck
But when you finally find one
It's sure to bring you LUCK

oh, Little four leaf clover
It's sure to bring good luck
Little four leaf clover
It's sure to bring good luck

Weekly Centres
March Break Five
We're picking five things we did over March Break, big or small, and drawing pictures of those things inside our five squares.

Clover Sprouts

Using construction paper and popsicle sticks, we'll be adding green clovers to our window while talking about both St. Patrick's Day and spring!  Those who finished their clovers were also able to make flowers for our "window garden."

Predicting Dice

Can we predict what number we will roll the most when using dice?  We'll be trying this week as we roll dice, chart our results, and then compare them with the rest of the class to see if there is a most probable result.

Drama Centre

Our drama centre was completely redone over March Break, and there will be some small group play in the area so we can get more familiar with it.

Other Things We're Doing

We helped each other brainstorm our March Break 5 activity by talking about what we did over the break and learned that, even though we didn't do exactly the same thing, we all did a lot more than we thought we did!

We looked at a box of carrots and made predictions about what worms would do to the carrots in a week.  Almost everybody thought that we'd just be left with extra big worms in the box.

We're talking about the idea of "luck" and what it is and, using the adventures of Scaredy Squirrel, have begun talking about the idea of possible vs impossible.  We also talked about things that were likely to happen versus things that are unlikely to happen (a beaver is more likely to bite you in a tree because it eats trees, but a rabbit is unlikely to bite you in a tree because it can't climb and eats grass, not squirrels)

We also talked about the different between things that are impossible (like jumping higher than a helicopter) and things that are possible, but not allowed (like eating paper towel).

The letter S and the letter A will be the focus of our printing activities this week.

A theatre company came into the school and performed a play called "The Great Mountain".  The play talked about the environment and how we could help save it for the future.

For Earth Hour, we talked about all the different things we need electricity for.  We then went down the gym to see if we could have our gym class with no electricity.  We found out we couldn't, so we figured out that we could have gym in room 207 because we had windows.

We learned a game called "Clover, Over!", where we had to search the room for a four-leaf clover but, when we found it, we couldn't say "Found it!"  We had to say "clover over" and go back to the carpet, hoping our friends would use the clue of our voice to find it for themself!