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Happy Groundhog Day!

Maple Ridge Park

Yesterday we walked to Maple Ridge Park and had a wonderful time exploring outside.  We took our "private eye" (magnifying lenses) to see what we could discover.  The lenses didn't last long as they found a hill to play on.  To Ms. Meedin's and my surprise, they had so much fun running up and down the trail hill.  There was lots of cheers of joy and excitement!  They had pure joy participating in outside physical activity, it just made us smile with pride.  When asked most kids said that the hill was their favourite part of the trip and wanted to do it again.  We then played on the playground before walking back to school.  Now that the weather is getting nicer, we plan to explore and have more physical play at Maple Ridge Park.  Here are some fun photos of our afternoon!

 

The Hill:

The Playground:

Meet Sophie!

Ms. Meedin introduced us to Sophie today!  Sophie is teaching the class all about the life cycle of the penguin and how they survive in the wild.  It was so cute when the kids asked Ms. Meedin, if Sophie flies to the Antarctica every night back home :)  Sophie is sometimes shy and needs the kids to help her feel safe and brave.  

Check out the great way Ms. Meedin and Sophie taught the kids about survival in the very cold Antarctica!  The kids were so excited for the Science experiment!

 Which hand is protected from the cold Once with blubber or without?

Teachable Moments

Today we had an interesting but well sealed Black Widow Spider for sharing.  I had never seen a real one but had heard stories from my husband from working in a grocery store.  We took the time to let everyone see the Spider (in the jar of course) and talk about how their venom is 15 times worse than a Rattle Snake's.  We also took the time to talk about how to be safe and to tell an adult if they see one.  Thank you Luke for showing us your spider find and we really appreciate how well it was sealed!

Grey Cup!!!

Look at us with the 'Actual' GREY Cup!!!!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Happy Chinese New Year!  The Year of the Dragon!

Ms. Meedin and the kids decided to create a Dragon.  They did a wonderful job working together to create a creation all together.  Wow, that is no easy job to get all 23 kids to agree and work on one project.

By working together we worked on:

-building our class community
-listening to others ideas
-sharing ideas and problem solving
-voting
-math (deciding how many could be on one side and how to time it to make it fair, which came from the kids)
-being valued as knowledgeable learner!

-waiting for a turn

-getting along with others

-planning ahead and planning with others

-paying attention even when it's hard
-being creative and using their imagination
-use art tools


and many more...

Then it was parade time through the school!


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