Pajama, stuffy pizza day!

Tomorrow room 10 will be having a make-your-own pizza lunch. The dress code is your most comfortable pajama's! Feel free to bring a stuffy friend too.

Poetry

Room 10 students are writing poems about animals and bugs. We wrote this poem together:

If I were a Painted Lady Butterfly 

By: Mrs. M and the students in room 10

If I were a Painted Lady Butterfly I would start my journey as a little blue egg. 

I would hatch out of my comfy egg and eat my delicious shell. 

I would eat, eat, eat yummy green leaves until I’m too big for my skin.

I would wiggle out of my skin, molting the too tight layer.

I would wrap my silky layer all around my body forming a golden chrysalis.

In a few weeks, I will push my way out of my cozy home and flap my wings until they dry and then I start to fly.

I would use my tongue as a straw to drink sweet nectar. 

I would hunt for the leaf that I was born on.

I would lay some tiny blue eggs continuing my butterfly lifecycle.

This weeks math centres

This week room 10 students are working on the following math centres:

1. Tug of war
2. Doubles Math
3. Odd and Even
4. Make 10
5. Solve the dice problem. What groups do you see?

We are focusing on addition and subtraction strategies.

Bug Lady!

We had a bug lady as our guest today! She had some really amazing bugs with her that we got to see, feel and even hold. We even invented a new word "ticklish"! This is how it felt to have the painted lady dance on our hands. We had a Isopod (Rolly Polly) walk over our hands but he kept trying to escape. The millipede was named Mr. Mustashio because it look like his little feelers were a mustache. One student described holding him "it feels like a little massage"-Sam. We also met Camilla the tarantula, we didn't hold her because she was shy but we did get to "shake her hand". Lastly, we learned about and held a great, big Vinegerou, which sprays vinegar out of his tail when he is frightened and as we headed out the door we looked closely at a scorpion. It was all super interesting and we learned a ton about their exoskeletons, what they eat and what kind of defenses they have.

Scientific Sketching of Flowers

Today room 10 looked closely at three types of flowers two of which we have in our outdoor classroom and one that came from my sister-in-laws house.

Lily of the Vally (smells amazing!)
Bleeding Hearts
Lavender

We started with the Legend of the Bleeding Heart, this is a story about how the flower was given it's name (the students were very interested in this). We then talked about where we might find these flowers and if they have other purposes like calming or medicinal. The students enjoyed using our art materials to sketch and record what they saw in their visual journals.

Nature Sketching

With this beautiful weather we have had this week room 10 students have been enjoying our outdoor spaces. We have been spending time in our outdoor classroom scientific sketching, writing, using a variety of art materials, collecting and studying bugs as well as spending time with our grade 3 buddies. The students have been working hard at drawing what their eye sees and adding descriptive words and labels to their work.

Maple Ridge Talent Show

Maple Ridge will be having a Talent show this year for Grades 1-4. There will be 2 shows; June 11 @ 2:30pm and June 17 @ 11:00 am. Auditions for Grade 1 students will be held during music class. If your child takes music/dance lessons or has a planned routine and would like to perform for the whole school they are asked to audition in front of their peers beginning this week. The last day for auditions will be Wednesday, June 5. Each student will be given 90 seconds for their performance. Song choice must be appropriate (no bad language or negative messages)

If you have any questions please email jmhebenton@cbe.ab.ca

Thank you

Mrs. J Hebenton

Music Teacher