1st Week of May

AMonday:

What an exciting start to the week. We were all surprised with a police officer from the Delta Police Department and his friend Safety Bear. The kids shared a lot of great questions with Police Officer and he reminded the students of important ways to stay safe in the community. 

After the visit we read a book called "Career Day" and all had a discussion about what the students might like to do when they grow up. We created a classroom book to share our interests. 

We were lucky to get our hands on a beautiful bouquet of flowers. We started the week by having the students use their observation skills to sketch the different flowers. 



Tuesday:
We started the day with another flower provocation. The students were invited to create flower art using various materials.









We are all working our way through a flower themed math booklet that focuses on different ways to represent numbers: word, ten frame, picture, tally, and number sentence.  



Wednesday: 

We talked about the different parts of plants and decided to start our plant inquiry by taking a closer look at seeds. The students were presented with various types of seeds and invited to guess what plant they belonged to. The students used their previous knowledge and all quickly identified the pumpkin seeds, but the carrot seeds really sent everyone for a loop. Thank you to those students who continued to wonder about seeds at home and brought in some different seeds that they found: Watermelon, lemon, and apple. 



As a class we cut open some different fruits and vegetables and the students had some hands-on experience digging out the seeds and making observations. 









Thursday:

I cannot blog too much about the other things going on in class right now, as they are being kept a surprise for Mother's Day.... but here is a little teaser. :) 

Friday:

I hope you all enjoyed the day off. As for me I had a wonderful day attending the Aboriginal Convention at Earl Marriot Secondary. We started the day with a traditional welcome from the Musqueam First Nation and a thought provoking lesson on reconciliation. 

My first workshop of the day was a history lesson given by the current Chief of the Semiahmoo First Nation, Harley Chappell. He shared some fascinating stories of about the land that we live on. In the afternoon, I attended a fantastic class on "Story Workshop" which is something that has been used by a fellow Kindergarten teacher at Rosemary Heights. I am super inspired by what I learned and in the next couple weeks should be ready to put my learning into action in our classroom. More information  to come.