All This In One Day!

Today was one of those days when Mrs. Allan and I just can't believe all the things that happen in one day!  Check out the photos below to find out what happened at school today!

We wrote some observations and conclusions to our "bread" experiment.  Two weeks ago, we put pieces of bread in a ziploc bag.  Bag #1 contained bread that was only touched by the teacher with plastic gloves on.  Bag #2 contained bread that was touched by children who had dirty/sandy hands.  Bag #3 contained bread that was passed around our circle and touched by all our hands.  After days and day of  waiting, we observed that Bag #2 (dirty, sandy hands) got moldy first.  We also noticed that Bag #3 started to develop some mold too.  We made the conclusion that we need to wash our hands very very carefully, even if we think our hands look clean because germs can be everywhere!

 

 We read another story by Robert Munsch.  Today's story was called "Stephanie's Ponytail".  What a funny story!  We used paper, crayons, markers and yarn to create our very own hairstyles for Stephanie.  

 Have you heard that we use iPads in kindergarten?  The children have become very skilled at using the iPads to explore a variety of educational programs that focus on letters, sounds and numeracy activities!

Hanging out with magnetic letters, exploring letters and words.  Can you see what word this friend made?

Many of the students worked together to build this unique block structure.  We call this cooperation!  What happened next was really great!  Mrs. Ducharme wrote down some of the children's words about this block creations.  Everyone was so excited to share their input and ideas about this building.  After seeing the their words being put down on paper, a small group of boys got very excited and decided they wanted to do some of their own writing about what they had built.  Using some best guess spelling and by copying some print, these boys set to work on printing letters all by themselves!  Fantastic!  That's what we call a great day of learning.  Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!