Week 34: How Things Live

Weekly Centres

Sight Word Tornado

We all played our favourite sight word game, as everbody did his or her best to work with our tops to find all the sight words they could.

5 groups of 10?  Or 10 groups of 5?

Using sorting circles and coloured bean, we made 50 by making either 5 groups of 10 or 10 groups of 5!

Painted Flower Pots

Decorating first with water soluable markers, and then with watercolours, we decorated the pots of our bean plants before taking them home!

Monarch Cocoons

Using green, grey, gold, green, black and white paint, we decorated the cocoons we made last week.  It was unbelievable how hard they got!

Rooted Flower Diagrams

We once again worked on drawing flowers, but this time we added a root system by using straws to represent how flowers "drink" water!

Books We Read

Jump, Frog, Jump

The Windy Day

Poem of the Week

Jump, Frog, Jump!

This poem is actually a cumulative poem/book, similar to the Old Lady Who Swallowed The Fly.  Each line starts with This is/these are and builds from there.
This is the basket put over the frog
by the kids who pick up the net
that wrapped around the turtle
that slid into the pond and ate the snake

that dropped from a branch

and swallowed the fish

that swam after the frog

that was under the fly that climbed out of the water.

How did the frog get away?

JUMP, FROG, JUMP!!!

Other Things We Did

Three new sight words this week:  HIS, THEY and WITH.

We talked about how flowers ate and drank, and we discovered that the roots of the flower help it get water and nutrients through the soil!

Mr. McCullough asked us if our class caterpillar would turn into a butterfly before it's string got too heavy.  Trick question, though!  Our class caterpillar will not turn into a butterfly because it's made of paper, doesn't move, can't spin it's own cocoon and, therefore, is not alive.  We then talked about what makes something alive before introducing our REAL class caterpillars, which should be turning into butterflies in a couple of weeks!

We kept working with the idea of "How Many More" by hanging our Monarch Cocoons everyday and asking "How many more are there today?"

We talked about problem solving in class, doing some role play and discussion about how we can solve problems before they start by talking to the other person (instead of just finding the teacher).