Our week started off with a presentation on bus safety! This is such a fun time for the kids every year! We get to hear from Sarah the Bus Riding Puppet and practice save behaviours around the bus and on the bus.
Also a big thanks to Nurse Lorna, who showed us how important it is to take our time and wash our hands!
Everyone put on some fake germ lotion and then went to wash their hands! Using a black light we could see how many "germs" stick around when you don't scrub enough!
We have become excellent scientists this week!
With our colour mixing unit we practiced colour mixing two different ways!
First we use play dough! (Thanks parents for making this possible!) Each student got a plain white play dough ball; except when they started to squish and moved it - a colour showed up! Each ball was either red, blue or yellow - our primary colours!
Afterwards we read mouse paint to find out about how our primary colours mix to make new colours. Then we went back to our desks and acted out the book with play dough! It went awesome!
Later in the week we mixed up some delicious Jello! We started with red and yellow and made predictions what would happened when we added blue! They were all blown away when the jello started to change!
To see more pictures from our experiment click here.
In Math this week we're still working on representing numbers to 10. We made little counting books about items in our fridge that shows we can draw a set of objects to match a number 1 - 10. We also did our best spelling, by sounding our the letters we heard in the words.
We also had our second week of math centers! Math centers is a hands on time where we get to practice the skills we've been working on all week. As the students are in smaller groups, it also gives me the chance to review and reinforce some ideas with students who need a little extra help. PLUS, they're always fun! 
In Language Arts we are working on our 3rd group in phonics, the letters - G, O, U, & L. We have been listening for these consonants at the beginning and end of words.
We also read a story about Apples! After reading we talked about what apples have, are, and can make! We worked on writing our very own apple sentences! They did pretty good!
Looks like my boy is loving school. And thanks for being a great teacher. All your time and work and patience is truly appreciated. Thanks so much for loving my boy. I can tell he feels it and really likes school A LOT.
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