Week 33: Canvas and Cops

Weekly Centres
10 Groups of 5
As we keep moving towards the 50th Anniversary of Jackman, we reversed what we knew about the number 50.  This time, instead of making five groups with ten things in each, we made ten groups with five things in each!

Life Cycles
Mr. McCullough gave us words to follow so we could write out the different parts of either the life cycle of a butterfly, the life cycle of a frog, or both!  We then drew the different stages of those life cycles.

50th Anniversary Canvas
We had lots of parent volunteers this week, which helped us a lot when we were painting our 50-themed canvas!

Block & Bucket Centres
To make sure that the canvas wasn't too crowded, we made good use of our block centre and building bucket centres, giving our hands a break from all the painting.

Books We Read
I'm A Caterpillar

Other Things We Did
We couldn't get the feed from the International Space Station to sing with Chris Hadfield on Monday.  So, instead, we met up with our Reading Buddies in the music studio and everybody practiced singing the Jackman school song.

Papier Mache Cocoons
Thursday was a big day in the classroom, with three parents and two Reading Buddy volunteers helping us create our papier mache cocoons!  It was the first time most of us had used papier mache!  They've hardened well and, next week, we'll be painting them and hanging them near our caterpillar!

We went around the classroom and found fifty items to share on five pieces of paper.  Then, we doubled the paper and split the groups (which were even tens) and still have 50 items, even though they were grouped differently.

Officer John came in to talk to us about neighbourhood safety, introducing us to Elmer the Safety elephant.  We learned important things like always wear a bike helmet, don't play in between cars, look both ways before crossing the street and hold and adult's hand while doing it!

We figured out that our sunflower had grown an extra four cubes this week, making it 13 cubes tall in all!  Then we talked about the difference between how tall something is and how much it grew in a period of time.

Some of our parent volunteers led sing-songs in the class, giving us a few different versions of "Never Put a Frog in the Kitchen Sink!"