Week 30: We Won't Pass on Re-sort-clying

Books We Read
The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah
Bear Feels Sick
Have I Got A Book For You!
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Weekly Activities
Recycle Sort
After collecting recycling for a few weeks, it was time to do something with all of it!

First, we talked about what recycling is, why it's better to recycle something than to throw it in the ground.  We let Mr. McCullough know that it can make things look dirty, pollute the ground and even kill the polar bears!  He told us about recycling, and how machines can take a box apart and make a brand new box out of it, so we don't waste the paper in boxes.

After figuring out what things were made of, we sorted by four different rules - things made of carboard, metal, clear plastic and non-clear plastic.  Big plastic bags were hung up and we managed to fill up a garbage bag with enough cardboard to make it bigger than anybody in the class!  Even with all that cardboard, though, we were able to lift the bag.

Writing Workshop: Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road
Mr. McCullough read us Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road, which was illustrated by some of our favourite artists!  After listening to some of their reasons why the chicken crossed the road, we had to figure out why our chickens might have crossed the road.  We tried something new called "Writer's Workshop", where we put at least fifteen minutes into our drawing and writing, putting down whatever letters we could with no help from Mr. McCullough (aside from the occasional sound out).  It was hard work, but ended up being a lot of fun!

Easter Ovals and PassOvals
Our big craft this week involved working with an oval as a "base", and then adding to it with a variety of shapes, colours and textures with stickers, markers and paints.  Everybody made one oval for the classroom and most people made an extra oval (or a shape of their choice) to take home!

Other Things We Did

Our "Number Dance Party" continued, as we started working on our simple seven and our figure eight!

On Tuesday, when we had that crazy snowy day, we talked about how this kind of thing happens in spring once or twice, how spring isn't cancelled, it's not winter again, and how it would be warm again soon enough.  Then we all had a chance to draw what we thought the crazy weather looked like.

We checked in on our cele-trees, and some of them weren't doing too well!  We though that some more clear water might fix the red and green trees.  Unfortunately, it didn't, and we had to make a choice about whether we should feed the dead trees to the worms.  After some discussion, we decided it would be a bad idea because "if the food colouring made those trees sick, maybe they'll make the worms sick, and then they'd die."

An "Egg Hunt" happened on Friday, but it was a bit different from egg hunts you may have tried in the past.  Instead of searching for eggs that Mr. McCullough hid and keeping what we found, we hid eggs with our own names on them!  Our friends then had to find our eggs and, when they found one, they had to give it back to the person whose name was on it.  That person then had to hide the egg again, all while searching for other people's eggs.  In the end, everybody got to keep their own egg, which was really easy to find, since we all hid ours in the first place!