'Sprinter', a Walking Rainbow, 'OW', & our Class Photo!

What a week! I find that when the weather does a 180, our perception of time shifts, in this case back to winter yet it is nearing the end of April!

'Sprinter' is fun!

On the whole, the children had a great attitude about our continued appearance of winter weather in springtime — 'sprinter' — and profited from the excellent building conditions outside! It is so rare that we get snow that binds well in our dry climate, but the shoulder season weather this week gave us that opportunity and the kids definitely took advantage of it. Once balls became too large to roll solo, they worked well together in small groups until they could make them positively monstrous in some cases! We also talked about fair play and if it is/n't acceptable to wreck someone else's creation.

Walking Rainbow

To continue our study of liquids this week, we did an experiment that involved capillary action with water traveling up (and down) paper towel. We also took advantage of the opportunity to work in some talk about primary and secondary colours.

The set up:
  • 7 clear cups
  • 4 cups were about half full with tap water; 2 had red food colouring, 1 had yellow, and another had blue [the primary colours]
  • Alternate cups as follows: red-empty-blue-empty-yellow-empty-red
  • Fold one sheet of paper towel and connect one cup to the one beside it, bending the paper towel into an arch
  • Repeat until every cup is connected to the adjacent cup(s)

Capillary action in action! Here are some pictures from the next day:



And the final results!

'ow' as in Cow

Our sound of the week was 'ow' as in cow. The students generated a large list of words that match this sound:

This coming week we will begin the same sound but spelled with 'ou'. 

Class Photo!

And, this Thursday we had the chance to have our class photo taken. We look forward to sending them home with you when the prints arrive!

Upcoming Events

On the morning of Tuesday, May 3rd, we will be trekking over to the coulee for some more work on the land with Stephanie and Karen. Please check your email for more information on this volunteer opportunity, we would love to have your helping hands, if you are able.

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