Fresh Air Friday - Becoming Explorers of the World

Today we started looking at a great new book. It is called "How To Be An Explorer Of The World".

To start our day today we went on a native plant hunt in the Natureground. We noticed that bees are attracted to some plants more than others. They seemed to really love goldenrod. We learned to identify purple aster and white aster, wild blue flax, bergamot, yarrow, goldenrod, and cone flower.

We used Flower Power today to make some art. We used white fabric and we smashed flowers and other plants and the colours came out on our fabric. We discovered that when you pound the juice out of the flowers they dye the fabric. We didn't know that flowers had natural dye in them!

Sept. 10

Today we worked on our "colours in nature" project. We worked on naming our colours. We made leaf colour, wildrose colour, shadow colour, sky colour, grass colour, forest colour, emerald colour, slime colour, bluebell colour, sun colour and lots more.

When we were outside for gym we saw a Cat Faced Orb Spider! It was hiding between the two red sheds. It was very cool and soooo big!

Today we also added some new centres to our morning routine. We also had library this afternoon. Our library exchange day will be Thursdays this year. Please bring your books back every week. 

Please remember to bring your labeled bag of flowers and grasses for our Fresh Air Friday project tomorrow. We will be working in the Natureground and in the Sun Circle.  

Sept. 9

We have a new notice in our agendas.

We had our first read-around today. We went to visit a different teacher and they read us a story. We will do this each day until we have visited every teacher. Room 1 went to see Mrs. Saunders in Room 7. Room 2 went to see Mrs. Wolff in Room 1 (Mrs. Hamby was away today).

We started a new poster project today. The posters will be all about us! We also started a birthday graph. We have already 4 birthdays in our classroom this year!

Sept. 8

We have a new notice in our agenda.

Today we read a really fun book called "That is not a good idea!" by Mo Willems. Then we talked about some GREAT ideas for our classroom. Some of the ideas we came up with were:

- Clean up your space
- recycle
- Use both sides of the paper
- Share our books
- Share our tools
- Work quietly
- Be a good listener
- Focus on the speaker
- Be kind when you play
- Stay inside the fence
- Help each other
- Use a whisper voice
- Keep your hands in your own space
- Ask before you leave the classroom
- Be kind to nature

We are excited about having a GREAT year!

Sept. 4

Today we went outside and learned about finding explorer spots. Explorer spots are places where we stay very still and try to notice what is around us. We went to the whispering woods today. We did a rainbow chip walk to look for colours. Then we did some painting inside.

Sept. 3

Today we did a craft to begin our talk about classroom expectations. We also had our Welcome Back assembly. Don't forget that tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday. We will be learning outside. Please dress for the weather! We are bringing home our agendas today. There are 2 new notices in our agenda pockets.

Sept. 2

Please check your child's backpack for some important forms. Today we had fun painting something about our summer and then writing about it. We will be bringing these paintings home soon. We had a great day!