Sorting Shapes

In math right now, divisions 1, 2, and 4 have teamed up to explore geometry.  We are discovering lots about 2D and 3D shapes.  They have attributes which allow them to be sorted and compared.  We can see them everywhere!

Our Tree!

I was experimenting with a photo

app that I have on my phone.  And here

is a "groovy" photo of our big tree that

faces Glen Drive.  I think it looks amaz-

ing with this special effect.  This was

taken before the big snowfall and polar

vortex arrived - I'm just so far behind on

posting anything!  I am trying to catch

up but I do apologize for not being a 

regular contributor!

One Super Happy Cookie Maker!

Cookie Factory Day!  How
happy does she look!

Sock Snowmen

Grace's mum came in before Christmas

and helped us make these adorable 

sock snowmen.  They are so cute and 

so easy to make and the kids loved it!  

Thank you Nikki!

Cloth

With Mrs. Barr's help, we made this 

lovely piece of cloth!

Weaving

When Aika was our star of the week, she brought in a beautiful hand-woven scarf she had made with her Nana.  So we asked her Nana, Mrs. Barr, to come and visit the class and show us what weaving is all about.  The kids all got a turn to try out the mini, table-top loom.  It was fun and incredible to watch a piece of fabric being created in a very short period of time.

                                                                                  

Counting Seeds

Counting seeds involves a lot of work.  First we made referent piles of seeds (e.g., 10, 20, 25) and then we estimated how many seeds we had in our pumpkins.  After getting our estimates, we actually grouped our seeds in numbers that we could all skip count by in order to get an accurate count.  As you can see, some of the groups got quite sophisticated and kept their groups of seeds organized by using rulers as boundaries.  A lot of negotiating and cooperating go into counting hundreds of seeds.