Our class has had another amazing opportunity to work on designing, creating and programming using the Lego WeDo software. It is impressive to watch how the kids collaborate and persevere and their creations are so unique.

During our workstation time in math workshop, kids participate in different activities and games to practice and extend their math thinking. The pictures below show a geometry workstation which focuses on composing and decomposing shapes, as well as thinking about their defining attributes.

Solving word problems using objects to model the situation and representing with an equation.

Comparing two numbers and recording comparisons with symbols <, >, =.

Today our wonderful Nature teachers taught us all about birds and their nests. We saw real examples of a variety of nests and we identified the birds that built them. We ended our time with trying to build our own nests!

Today during our writing workshop we partnered with our friends in kindergarten. We shared, listened and gave feedback to each other. We are working on convincing people through our opinion writing.

Pictures coming soon!

Today we made our special snack of corn muffins and we made our own butter. It was extra fun to be in our jammies and to have our stuffies.

In our latest science mystery, students learned about melting and the solid and liquid states of matter. We discovered why plastic was invented, as well as the "meltable" property of different kinds of candy.

Today in science we discussed the various reasons why we wear clothes. We observed and noticed the properties of different materials. We used our observations to help design and construct a hat that would help protect us from the sun.