Fresh Air Friday - Arctic and Winter Games

Today we had a discussion about Math Night and shared some of our favorite memories. The most popular, it seems, was Race to 100 against the parents! Afterwards, we worked on creating our math board games - those that were finished were able to try playing the game boards made by other students in the class. Many students have taken home their math booklets to work on over the weekend - practicing numerical patters - please complete as much as you can and return these by Monday, Feb 25th.

For Fresh Air Friday, we created our own "Arctic Games" in spirit of our exploration of the Arctic. Our Big Buddies came out with us to help.

We had various Arctic-inspired games and other winter activities set out outside:

One Foot High Kick

Sick & Bone Toss

Building with Snow

"Harpoon" Throwing

Seal Crawl Race

Distance Jumping

Snowshoeing 

Curling

Afterwards, we came inside to enjoy our snack while watching a documentary about Arctic in the Summer. We learned about:

• animals will work together to protect each other
• Adult Muskox protect their young from arctic wolves by making a circle around the young and point their horns on the outside of the circle
• Algae and Krill flourish in the summer - arctic animals depend on the krill, such as:
• Humpback Whale, Minke Whale, Killer Whale (Orca)
• Penguins
• Other animals live in the arctic: Elephant seals with large noses, polar bears, lynx, narwhal, walrus, reindeer, snowy owl, tern, beluga whale

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Reminders:

1. Special helper for Monday Feb. 25 is Aadhya - please prepare to share about your special talent

2. Clay for Kids will be coming again on Feb 26th

3. Treat day is Feb 26

4. Return Math booklets for Feb 25