Monday 25 November 2013
Today was a beautiful fall day and Dickens Annex said goodnight to the school garden with the help of parent volunteers Kate (Alex's mum) and Kelsey (Eleanor's mum) and Sarah, a garden expert who helped with Hello Harvest at Thanksgiving. Division 4 enjoyed planting bulbs to beautify the garden next spring but what they enjoyed most, I think, was collecting lots of leaves to scatter over the bulbs to protect them from the winter frost. They had so much fun in the garden and worked so well together.
Beautiful Poems inspired by that incredible fog Vancouver experienced
The Web
By Fynn
The glistening rain drop
looks like a silvery sea pearl
that settles on the silky thread that the spider creates
The silky web that glistens in the sunset
I love spider webs.
Shimmering Sparkle
By Elaine
Pretty web is shimmering.
Shimmering web, sparkle spider web.
Shimmering web sparkles in the sunlight.
Spider Webs
By Elliott
I love the way
the drops on the spider webs
look like diamonds,
It also looks like glimmering glass.
Spider Threads
By Jacob
Spider threads glisten in the sunlight
Watch what happens when sunset falls
Red and orange colours replace the white colour of the
spider threads
The sunlight makes this happen like a colour dropper.
At night, it seems like it has no colour at all.
In the fog, it looks like Halloween.
Monday 4 November 2013
Patterns are fun!
We've done lots of work with patterns.
Here is one student's work where she
states where her pattern starts, and how
it increases each time. She also tells
you what manipulatives she used to
create her pattern. I love the way she
used different coloured counters to show
us how the pattern was growing.
Help each other!
At the Annex, we expect our students to help each
other when adults are not available. Here is a
beautiful example of an older student helping a
younger student sound out words during our writ-
ing time. Sometimes kids need to be asked to help-
not in this case!
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