I feel like there's so much going on it's hard to distill into a single theme each week and last week was especially busy with Halloween and the Costume Parade. I've left off photos of costumes, although they were very cute, in the interest of focusing on the learning happening around all that.
First we have the spider craft. We did some counting and some writing of numbers around the edges. Students placed glitter and eyes artistically, then laced their spider webs. Getting the string through the holes was challenging for many and I helped with knotting.
Next was the pumpkin. We voted on what shape the eyes, nose, and mouth should be, tallied the results, and made some graphs together.
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| Here's me demonstrating what a graph of Eyes would look like |
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| Here students graph the number of votes for each nose. |
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| Then, Ms. Moniz and students carved the pumpkin together. |
Next, the drama centre has been transformed into a Doctor's office. It began when students traced the skeleton puzzle in our science centre and asked for clipboards. The Terry Fox Run clearly had a lasting impact because they were pretending to look at the cancer in Terry Fox's bones.
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| Checking the ears |
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| Reception books appointments |
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| These are some of the Doctors in our clinic |
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| One student records the symptoms |
The water table also continues to be an area of great focus: Students are using tubes to play with air and water pressure.
We are looking for a couple of things moving forward that we'd love to have come in:
--Hospital or emergency helper themed costume items
--Syringe plungers
--Other medical themed items
(One of the things we keep talking about is what should go on the walls of our doctor's office. If you happen to visit the doctor, please draw your child's attention to elements that they might be able to use their writing and drawing skills to reproduce.)
--Flexible plastic tubing (The ones we currently have are on loan)
--Also, we're hoping to get a number of smallish clear plastic bottles in for a future craft/science experiment, preferably 750ml or smaller. (Soap bottles, water bottles, condiment bottles, etc.)
As always, library is tomorrow, Day 1.
Sincerely,
Ms. Goegan
