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Special Visitors in Our Classroom

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Special Visitors in Our Classroom

The Grade 1/2 students have recently enjoyed several presentations by special guests.  Fire fighter Clinton taught us about fire safety.  We learned how to stop, drop, and roll, and how to stay low and get out in case of a fire.  We made fire escape plans with our families and marked our emergency exits and safe meeting places at home.

Mrs. Prasad visited to share information about Diwali.  We learned about the celebrations and traditions of the festival of light, and  sampled some of her delicious cooking!  We love having visitors in our classroom!  Would you like to visit us?

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Science is Fun!

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In Science we have been learning about Soils. We have been exploring the different layers of soils, and we did an experiment where we used food to represent the different layers of the soil. We had a lot of fun doing this experiment!!

This week we did another experiment where we learned about where water travels inside soil. We used water, rocks, and soil and explored ground water, and precipitation. We observed how the soil absorbed the water and noticed that some of the soil was dry the next day.

We have a lot of fun doing our science experiments!

The Grade 3/4’s

Hiking and the Corn Maze

Hiking and the Corn Maze

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In this class blog I’m going to tell you about the trip to Frontenac Park that the 7/8 class went on last week and the corn maze trip that the whole school went on. The hike in to Campsite 8 where we where staying was usually 2 Km, but we took the 12 Km route instead. We stopped multiple times for water breaks. When we stopped at campsite 12, we did some water color painting and filtered more water for the hike ahead. We took our time hiking in and got to camp site 8 at around 2 pm. When we got to camp, we put our packs, which had all of our gear, in the tents. Then we just hung out around the campground until it was dinner time. Dinner was fajitas. Once we had all had dinner, we filled our water bottles up and had smores around the fire until it was time to go to bed. In the morning the forecast was for rain at lunchtime, so we left camp at about 10 O’clock in the morning. Since we didn’t know what the weather was going to be like, we took the 2 Km hike out and did more watercolor painting at campsite 11. After campsite 11 it was about a 30-minute hike out. Once we had hiked out, we got in the trucks, got ice cream, and went back to the school.

The next week we went to the corn maze on Wolfe Island. We left school at around 8:45 and got to the corn maze at about snack time. After we had a snack, the owner of the corn maze told us the rules and gave us walkie-talkies so we could communicate when we were in the maze. We split into different groups. The primary classes split into groups with teachers and so did the 5 /6 class. The 7/8 class split up into two groups. We got walkie talkies and went into a different maze that had 26 wrong ways rather than 12 wrong ways which is where the primary classes went. It took the 7/8 class about 30 minutes to complete the whole maze. The primary class took a bit longer. When we all finished the maze, we all had lunch and then got to see the two goats and rabbits that were at the farm. Once we’d seen the animals, we found out that the ferry had been backed up by an ambulance call. So, we had to leave right away, and we barely caught the ferry. When we were on the ferry, we got to go up to the top section of the boat and see the view. We also got splashed by the waves on the boat.

By Anders

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Falling Into Fall!

Falling Into Fall!

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Fall is here, and we have been busy exploring it!  We have been talking about all of the changes that are beginning to happen and the changes that will be happening in the next few weeks.

We started with Thanksgiving. We discussed what being thankful means and brainstormed things that we could be thankful for.  We had some great things to be thankful for!  We made placemats and wrote down what we were most thankful for.

Then, we made turkeys for Thanksgiving!

We visited Little Cat Creek for the last fall session.  Queen Autumn came out to join us and shared some autumn tea.  We climbed on rocks and went for a beautiful autumn hike.  What a gorgeous day!

We played some fun fall games in Math, focusing on shapes, measurement, and counting skills.

We learned a poem called Dingle, Dangle Scarecrow and made scarecrow masks .  Each child had a turn pointing to the words as we learned the poem.  We also picked out words that we already knew to help us read the poem.

We went on a fall hunt to find any signs of fall.

Lastly, we went on a trip to the corn maze! We took a ferry, completed a corn maze, petted a few bunnies, had a snack, ate a picnic lunch, and learned about corn.  When we returned back to school, we coloured a corn picture and practiced copying the sentence under the picture.  It was a great day!

The Kindergarten Class