The snow has finally arrived! We started an inquiry on snow, ice, and winter. We have had multiple opportunities to explore snow and ice. One of the first explorations was bringing the snow and ice into the classroom. Students had to guess how many days it would take to melt. During this time, students were able to touch and feel the ice and snow, in order to make better predictions. Another experiment that we did was the reaction of road salt and table salt on ice. Students again made predictions and got to see what happened first hand. They noticed the road salt made holes in the ice, and we added food colouring to see where the holes were. The salt melts the ice quickly and that is why we use salt tucks in the winter to de-ice our roads. We have been building inukshuks and igloos with our "ice blocks", working on our one-to-one correspondence by placing the appropriate number of buttons on the snowman, and writing in our snowman books. We have been painting,, measuring, and decorating snowman, matching and sorting snowflakes, and talking about winter activities in both French and English. In French we have started writing journals, where students are to pick a topic of their choice and write a sentence. A lot of children have been writing about winter. Winter is certainly not over and neither is this inquiry!
Books to Inspire Creativity and Writing
The students enjoyed reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert and discovering all the different leaf characters in the book. After reading the book, the students created and wrote about their own leaf characters.After reading Windblown, the students played around with their own scraps of paper. Everyone used their scraps of paper differently.After reading, It's Not a Box, the students were given a sheet of paper with a box on it. Students were asked to use their imagination to create anything they would like out of the box and write about it. For example: "It's not a box, it's a rocket". "It's not a box, it's a train"." It's not a box, it's a Nixon". Sorting objects by beginning letter sounds is a fun and playful way to reinforce letters and letter sounds. Students are collaborating and cooperating to build their very own alphabet! Students visit the Listening Center to listen to The Three Snow Bears. Students use pointers to track print as they read the charts, signs, poems, etc around the room. |
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