Week 32: The Growing Mystery

Books We Read
Walter the Baker
Mister Seahorse
Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Weekly Centres
April Portfolio
Portfolio time again!  This month, we're trying to use 8 colours and to write as many words and letters as possible by ourselves, even if we're not quite sure how!

Mystery Rolls
With our mystery creature(s) coming to our class late this week, Mr. McCullough gave us a clue, telling us that the creatures would have a similar shape to toilet paper rolls.  Our job was to paint the toilet paper rolls green, white and black, which might help us figure out what kind of living thing is coming.

My Flower
After picking a seed to plant, we tried to make a version of our plantable flower (either sweet peas, chrysanthemums, sunflowers or hollyhock) out of pipe cleaner, markers and tissue paper.

Seed Sort
We learned that all of our seeds look a little different, and we had to sort them back into their individual containers based on appearance.

Other Things We Did
Monday was our Snickerdoodle Taste-Test!  We tried all four recipes, with some of them tasting really good, and others tasting a bit like "play-doh" (our words).  In the end, we chose the tastiest recipe, number 4, and decided that it wasn't really a snickerdoodle cookie, but more of a snickerdoodle crumble.  We also talked a bit about what ingredient we could add or take away to make our crumble more like a cookie.

Our Reading Buddies took us outside for the Jackman Community Clean-Up, which was postponed due to bad weather on Friday.  We helped clean up different parts of the yard, wearing rubber gloves, with Mr. McCullough, Ms. Stillman and our Reading Buddies making sure we were only picking up "safe" garbage and avoiding things like glass.

We received daily clues about what our Mystery Creature might be.  Our first clue was that it starts life as an egg.  The second clue was that, as a baby, it crawls on more than two legs.  Our third clue was that it sleeps for a long time before becoming an adult. We used these clues to make and change predictions and then, for Wednesday's Writer's Workshop, we drew pictures of the animal and wrote down our predictions.  On Friday, we learned that we would be getting butterflies!

Everybody got to plant their own flower seed from the selection above, and some people brought in their own seed to be planted as well!