Fresh Air Friday

Highlights:
Fresh Air Friday:
Because it was so cold today and many children were absent, we enjoyed a longer Big Buddy time.  We shared books and we played board games together.  We also spent some time working on our Nose Hill animal diagram.  To go along with our animal research we started watching a documentary about  a family of Grizzly bears. We had already learned a bit about Grizzly Bears from Ms. Boyer who went on a Grizzly Bear safari in September with her family. The documentary we are watching does a great job telling us about bear family, diet, habitat, survival, appearance, and enemies. These are all the categories we will be thinking about as we begin researching our own animals. 

Photo taken by Jeff (Ms. Boyer's husband) on their Grizzly Bear Safari in September

Next week we will begin to work on number patterns in math.  In science we will continue with our animal research.  In Literacy we will begin to work on a story response page in our art journals to go along with the work we have been doing with Karen Gummo.

Dates to Remember:
Monday March 16th - Storytelling with Mrs. Gummo
Thursday, March 19th - Last day of school prior to spring break.
Friday, March 20th - No school.

Math/Science Night Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is our math/science curriculum night. Please join us between 5pm and 7pm to try some science and math activities related to the work we are doing in Room 2!

Highlights
This week we started working on our animal research by creating diagrams of our animals. We are working to include a detailed, accurate drawing, clear labels, and a title to our diagrams. Next we will begin using books and websites to find out information about our animals. We will be learning about our animals' home, food, predators, family, survival adaptations, and other interesting facts.

We have also been working on an exciting art project about Nose Hill. We are creating a huge mural of Nose Hill outside our room. We hope you will enjoy looking at it when you come tomorrow evening.

Today we also had another visit from Mrs. Gummo! She told us another bird story about Magpie and Mallard Duck. Ask me to tell you this story! We are beginning to think about how we could tell our own stories about Nose Hill and the animal that live there.

Tomorrow we will excited to have a visit from Saa'Kokoto!

Dates to Remember
Thursday March 12 - Visit from Saa'Kokoto
Thursday March 12 - Math/Science Curriculum Night 5-7pm

Nose Hill Trip

Highlights:

Today we went to Nose Hill! We worked in groups to investigate some of the animals that might live on Nose Hill. Our groups were tasked with finding evidence that our animal could survive on Nose Hill. We took notes and took photos of our evidence. When we got back to the school, we took turns sharing some of our findings. Here are a few of the things we had to say:

We studied porcupines. We saw willow trees that the porcupines would use for food and shelter. ~ Ansif and Zoe 

Porcupines would also eat berries. We found rosehips and buckberries.  ~ Shemuella, Renaud 

We studied hare. We saw rosehips that the hares could eat and we also saw hare tracks. ~ Declan 

We saw a burrow where the rabbits could sleep or hide. ~ Kipling 

We studied red fox. We saw a really good place for a fox to sleep. It was a place that would hard for people to get to. ~ Aaron 

We studied coyote. We saw coyote tracks and we followed them. We enjoyed the view. We also saw a flipped over car! ~ Landon 

We saw a lot of berries and deer track so we know there was food for coyotes. ~ Kais 

We studied red tailed hawk. We say mouse tunnels and tracks. The red-tailed hawk would eat the mice. ~ Finn 

We saw coyote tracks. They would be an enemy or competitor for red tailed hawks because they would eat the same things like rabbits and mice. ~ Max 

We studied lynx. We saw a chickadee that a lynx might want to eat. We also saw bunny tracks. ~ Hank 

We studied the american badger. We found a lot of food prints. ~ Ayaka 

We saw a lot of holes that could be from mice. They would be food for the badger. ~ Chrystal 

We saw lots of coyote tracks and honey. ~ Inaya 

Here are a few photo of our evidence: 

Dates to Remember:
Tuesday March 10 - School Council Meeting
Wednesday March 11 - Art Club
Thursday March 12 - Curriculum Night! (5-7pm)

Nose Hill Friday!

Important

We are hoping to go to Nose Hill on Friday (weather permitting). We are looking for 2 more volunteers so that we can go. Please email Ms. Boyer if you can join us. 

Highlight
This week we started our story telling work with Mrs. Gummo.  On Monday Mrs. Gummo shared a story called Cormorant and Eider Duck. When the story was finished we imagined some feathers and drew our feather ideas. The next day she told us a story called Granny Owl and Granny Raven. After we heard the story we practiced re-telling the story in groups of three. Ask me to re-tell these stories to you!
 

We also continued our animal research this week. We continued to learn about food chains and the impact that animals have on their ecosystems. Here is a short video we watched that related to the story we read on Friday. Some of us were really interested in this video and we wanted to have it on the blog so we could watch it again at home.

Dates to Remember
Friday March 6 - Trip to Nose Hill