Week 31: Earth Week

Books We Read
The Lorax

Song of the Week
The 3D-D-D
You put your sphere in, you take your sphere out,
You put your sphere in and you shake it all about!
You do the 3D-D-D and you go and seek one out
And that's what it's all about
(sphere is then replaced by cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, pyramid)

Weekly Centres
Build-A-Snickerdoodle
With the help of a few different parent volunteers, we created our own recipes for the Jackman Cookbook!  Mr. McCullough made sure we used ingredients that were as healthy as possible (brown sugar instead of white, whole wheat flour instead of white, and unsalted butter instead of salted) and we chose how much of each ingredient we were supposed to add to our mix!  We'll be having a "Taste Test" next week and the favourite version of the recipe will make the cookbook!

Planet Earth
Using round coffee filters and blue-and-green food colouring, we created our own version of Earth!

3D Frames
Our box of 3D shapes served as models as we tried to make toothpick and plastecine frames of pyramids, cubes and rectangular prisms.

Spring Word Book
Using the words worm, bud, flower, robin, rain, and sun, we created some picture books about spring.  We had the choice of using traceable letters to make the printing easier, or to use the word wall to spell the words on our paper freehand!

Other Things We Did
We talked about what "healthy eating" meant, and decided that it meant eating food that would help you grow strong, big, and not make you sick.  We then talked about how eating too much of anything can make you sick, what the right amount of unhealthy food is, and healthy alternatives for snacks and recipes.

Our school had our Earth Day assembly on Tuesday, and we were treated to songs, movies, plays and other performances.  We learned a lot about why taking care of the earth is important, and about some of the things we can do to help!

We asked if the worms and our new class flower could help each other, and we decided that they could because they could give the dirt some air for the plants and make the soil more healthy with compost.  So, we added some worms to our flower to see what would happen!

We learned about plurals, which means more than one.  You show something is a plural by adding an s to the end of it.  Some of us tried that in our Spring Books, where we wanted to draw more than one flower, worm, or even more than one sun!

Friday was the day we used all our recyclable material to create whatever we wanted!  There were a lot of boats, but also some a jewelry box, an alligator, the Easter bunny, and a hole that transformed into a cardboard box!  Thanks to all the parent volunteers who came and helped us make our creations real!