Week 36: Flutterby, Butterfly!!!

Weekly Centres

Monthly Portfolio Writing

We added another page to our monthly portfolio.  A lot of us are writing small words and sentences, and we know that we can look at our sight word wall to help us with spelling!

Foam Butterflies

Some easy to use foam butterfly kits from Dollarama have helped us learn more about symmetry, as we have to make sure that one side of our butterfly looks the same as the other side of the butterfly.  It's also helping us with our fine motor skills.

Magnet Math

Using both our bear counters and subtraction circles, we've been representing our math facts using magnets on our new portable magnet board!

Water Lego

We've been using Lego to build things all year.  We've never tried to build with Lego in the water table!!!  We're noticing some of the differences, like the pieces being more slippery, the challenge of trying to find a place to put things as we're building, and how we can make our structures float.

Todd Parr Drawings

We're working on creating faces and drawing of people by using the drawings of Todd Parr as an example.  Every day, we'll be reading one of his books, and then trying to copy the pictures from the book so we can make our own Todd Parr style portraits next week!

Books We Read

It's Okay to be Different

The Grandma Book
The Peace Book
The Earth Book

Song of the Week

Flutterby Butterfly

Why did the butterfly flutterby?
Why did the butterfly flutterby?

Why did the butterfly flutterby?

'Cause he saw the dragonfly
Drink the flagon dry!
Flutterby, butterfly, flutterby!
Flutterby, butterfly, flutterby!
Drink that flagon dry, dragonfly!
Flutterby, butterfly, flutterby!

Other Things We Did

Our butterflies are coming out of their cocoons!  At the start of the class on Monday, we had 4 butterflies.  By the end of the class, we had 8!  By Thursday afternoon, we had over twenty!  On Thursday afternoon, we released the butterflies into nature.  We had a class vote on where we should let them go and we decided the Butterfly Garden was the best since it had lots of shade, flowers for the butterflies to get nectar from, branches for them to hang off of and trees to protect them from predators!

We looked at the drawings of Todd Parr and looked at how to draw people like he does.  We discovered that he doesn't use noses, puts hair in small lines or big shapes, uses black dots for eyes, and uses simple shapes for body parts.  Mr. McCullough also had us look at Todd Parr pictures he drew.  We had to guess who he had drawn and then prove our answer by using different parts of the picture as part of our reason!

Show and Share was back, with one student reading us a Piggy & Gerald book!  We also got to see a manatee, a Transformer jet and an owl backpack with a baby in it!!!

We kept looking at the idea of symmetry and talked about how making something perfectly symmetrical is hard, whether it's folding it over with paint or trying to do it by hand.

Our new books for our Book Club arrived in class!  We've really enjoyed using the words and sounds we know, picture clues and patterns in the words to help us learn how to read!