How do you grow a plant? Our Kindergarten children were very knowledgeable about growing plants! They used many key words such as "soil" "seeds" "sun rays" "water" and "oxygen". We started to plant tomatoes, beans and chia seeds! We can't wait to be observers as we watch our plants grow. Unit of Inquiry - Deepavali Celebration We also started our new unit How We Express Ourselves. This unit will be running for the rest of the year alongside other units. The central idea is: Cultures express themselves through celebrations.
We started to dive into this unit by exploring the upcoming holiday Deepavali/Diwali. We started to look at the features of the celebration, with Ms Smita coming in and telling us the story behind Deepavali. We also started to make connections to what meaning people assign to the celebration. We made rangolis out of sand, and even celebrated by lighting sparklers! What a fun start to our year long unit.
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Mystery Bags One afternoon Ms Bustamante brought out 5 bags with different colour spots on them. She asked us: “Can you order them from lightest to heaviest?” But there was one trick, we had to do this by using our observation skills, but we were only allowed to look not touch! Not only did we have to make a prediction ordering them from lightest to heaviest, but we had to justify our answers as well. "I think the yellow is heaviest because it's so fat" "I think the purple is the lightest because it's standing so straight" "I think the green one is lightest because it looks so small" Next, we agreed that it would be more fair is we could observe the bags once more but feel it in our hands. The order of the bags changed. But Ms Bustamante asked us, how can we really measure which one is heaviest and lightest? We came up with the idea of using scales! We measured each one until we found the one that was heaviest compared to all, and so on. We even found that two were the same weight, how sneaky! Experiential Week Experiential week was a great success! The Kindergarteners and Grade 1s worked together this week to develop their communication skills, social skills, and thinking skills by learning through doing and reflecting! Have a look at some of the activities we got up to this week.
Thank you for attending the Three Way Conferences on Wednesday and supporting your child's learning. It's so refreshing to hear everyones visions for their children.
We have continued to discuss our responsibilities this week, exploring what our personal responsibilities are in class and at school. We even had a special visitor come into class this week to talk to the Kindergarten students about her responsibilities. The special visitor was Ms Tilney, our principal! She told us she has three main responsibilities for the children: 1. Making sure we're safe 2. Making sure we're happy 3. Making sure we're learning Ms Tilney read us a hilarious story about a boy who's responsibility was to make sure Dragons didn't eat spicy salsa... And he failed! The consequences were disastrous. This got us thinking about what happens when we don't do our responsibilities. Take some time this weekend to discuss with your children what your and their responsibilities or jobs are at home and what might happen if they don't get done! |
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