Yesterday was a very exciting day in our class! Seven of our eggs have hatched! Six of them hatched over night. We we lucky enough to watch as one chick broke out of it’s egg. Now we are watching closely as the chicks learn to eat and drink and become more and more mobile. The students are noticing small changes throughout the day!
After much research, inquiry, building and creating we have engineered a classroom farm!
It all started with the delivery of the eggs. Thank-you to a student’s family for donating the incubator and eggs! We are eagerly awaiting the hatching sometime next week!
Then we talked about things we knew about farms – some students knew a lot as we do have some farming families in our class. Many students had questions, especially when it came to animals. So we moved into some inquiry projects around farm animals. Students broke into small groups, did some research with books and videos, recorded their thinking and learning on a poster, and then presented it all to the class. Reading, writing, oral, and cooperative skills were all at work!
Then the engineers got to work building a barn, a silo, a farmhouse, a pasture, and a pen for the pigs and cows complete with a mud puddle! The students created animals for the farm including chicks, horses, cows, and pigs. They even managed to turn 2 big boxes into tractors!
Now, we’re all having fun playing in our classroom farm! Students are building relationships and social skills as they engage in the dramatic play. What a fun way to celebrate all of the work we engaged in with this farm inquiry!
It is such a beautiful day for school outside! We started out with a partner singing game: “Hey There Friend”.
Then we talked about some signs of Spring. Now that it is sunny and warmer, the bees are starting to wake up!
Then it was on to free play and choice learning. Students made cakes and muffins, sandcastles and craters. They had a fun game of hide and seek happening. Some students even worked on a special project for the classroom that we’ll reveal later this week!
The Year Two (SK’s) have been learning a new math game – Five To Win. We started out playing in teams and instead of holding the cards in our hand we laid them out on the floor.
The next step is for them to teach the Year One’s (JK’s) how to play.
You can find game instructions on the math games page on this blog. Look at the top of the blog for the page.
Lots of exploration and learning is happening in our Literacy Centres this week!
