Continuing Learning About Planes

Today some students decided to improve their plane designs, after learning new ideas from Mlle Themelis and Mlle Vien's class. Take a look!

Air Planes

Some of the students recently became interested in flight. They had some wonders about flight. Both Q.G and C.A asked "How do planes fly?"

Soon more students became interested and built more planes. 

They wanted to fly their planes and see how far they could fly. G.F. set up meter sticks so they could measure how far their planes traveled. 

The students had many more questions about flight and planes. We knew that Mlle Viens and Themelis already did an entire inquiry on flight, so we sent some of our students over to learn more from their class!

These students came back with new ideas and suggestions on what they could add to their planes to make them fly better. Stay tuned to see what happens..........

Fan Day & Building!

We hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the Fun Fair if you went :)

Our class had a great time on Friday participating in Fan Day. We had all sorts of different characters in our classroom:

We noticed that our classroom caterpillars are already much bigger after just one weekend!

 Another creation at our overhead projector:

 Q.G. found a plan for a bridge in one of our building books, and then he made it:

 J.M. enjoyed some time at the art table making this creation:

 C.A. and Q.G. are following another plan to create something different:

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Some Learning From This Week

The students have been having a great week. Take a look at some of the things that they have been doing over the past few days.

 

C.A. and Q.G. were very excited to see that some of our plants were growing. We discovered the importance of plants and sunlight, as many of our plants have not been growing. We placed a few of these plants into more direct sunlight and all of a sudden they started growing!

Some of the students requested special materials for the art table. They wrote a list when they requested these materials (ie. cotton balls, string).

 The students used these art materials to make cotton bears! How cute!!!

 J.M. showed various ways to add at the math centre. She was very creative in showing different ways to add 4 + 2.

 Students are continuing to make plans before building.  The are becoming more creative in their creations using the connects.

A.J. made a car! She was very creative as she built the car around herself

 M.D. made me some letter cookies! They were yummy!! But after 3 trays, I was a little full. :)

 

 Some students made words they knew (i.e. the, there, for, is etc) and their names at the writing centre. We left out cookie trays, lists of words and magnetic letters to see what they would do on their own without any direction.

 G.D and S.M used the light books that are located at the light table, to help give them new ideas when creating things.

 L.M, M.A. and G.D. created a light show at the overhead centre. They even set up chairs for their audience and C.B, C.A. and D.P. used blocks to play their guitars to go along with the song L.M, M.A. and G.D. sang! They were so excited about this show, they felt the centre set up for tomorrow.

 G.F. invited me to a picnic. When I arrived, she had sorted all the food for the picnic into the 4 food groups.

 M.D. made me some more cookies at the play dough table. He explained how he made the cookies and used a stamp to create the happy face in his cookie.