Filling the hallway with love!

Thank you so much for submitting all of the things you love about these special little people :) The hearts are beautiful and touching.

Igloo Construction Begins!!

I was a bit leery about mixing hot glue with 4 and 5 year olds, but it has provided a great discussion about safety and asking for adult help! Keep sending those milk jugs and check out our progress so far!

Hibernation Party

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Hibernation Party! The kids had a blast baking birdseed biscuits with you, showing you their favourite centres, and most of all, reading with you! Here are a few pictures from our fun event. I will be adding additional pictures to your child's portfolios as well :)

How do Arctic animals survive?

As we explored winter animals, we asked ourselves, "How do animals that live in cold temperatures survive without having houses like us?"

We did an experiment to see how fat helps to insulate animals. 

First the students stuck their hands in icy cold water... Brrrr! 

Then I filled a plastic bag with Crisco and put another bag inside of it to keep our hands clean. 

We submerged our insulated hands in the water and were shocked at how warm they stayed! What a "cool" lesson! 

Winter Silhoutte Art

We have gotten so many compliments on our winter silhouette art. The kids did an amazing job recreating images from the book Hopper by Marcus Pfister through a variety of watercolour techniques. Aren't they beautiful?

We used plastic wrap on the blue water colour to provide an icy texture, and salt in the sky to make crystals like snow! 

The students then used textured paint (acrylic and flour) to fill the animal stencils. 

All About Everett

We had a wonderful opportunity to listen to Everett share his All About Me book today. Did you know that his favourite song is "Black Betty" and that he knows his whole phone number? Wow! We were very excited to see his special guest Lulu which gave us a great hands on way to talk about dog safety with a very polite role model :)

Thank you to Linda for bringing Everett's special guest and working so hard with  him on his special book! 

Snowman Art

We used puffy paint to make snowmen today. We linked this to informational writing and following step by step instructions with the Vera Trembach book, "Make a Snowman". Check out our first two steps:

1) Mix together shaving cream and glue

2) Make the snowman's body

Stay tuned for step 3!