Soggy Monday !

It was a VERY wet day today!  It rained all day, but we kept busy with all of our wonderful learning inside our classroom.

Here's what we have been up to over the past few days:

We are continuing our plant inquiry and last week Mme Ouellette helped us plant beans in two ways.  First, we soaked them in paper towel or cotton balls and placed them in a plastic bag.  All of the bags are taped in the window so they can get some sunlight and we hope to see them sprout.

Here are all of our beans taped to the window.  We hope they get enough sunlight and begin to sprout!

 Next, we planted a few beans in our sensory bin along side our grass.  Maybe they will grow big and tall just like our green grass! It is getting so long!  Today, we found some objects in the classroom to measure against the grass. Some blades of grass are as long as a pencil crayon, but they aren't as long as a straw yet!  We will keep watering the grass and it will grow taller everyday.  We also added some extra nutrients today...it looks like dirt, it feels like dirt, but it smells like coffee!!  That's right, we added coffee grinds to half of the grass in our sensory bin to see if it helps it grow even more!

Justin and Marcus made some plant signs to label where we are growing grass and where we are growing the beans.  Our grass is getting long!!

As for the beans, we are wondering if we can grow a tall beanstalk just like we read about in Jack and the Beanstalk.  We liked the story so much, that we built our very own beanstalk for the puppet theater.  We also made handmade puppets at the Art Center last week so we can retell the story at the dramatic play centre.  Some of the characters are, Jack, the Giant, Jack's mom, the old man etc... Some of the props in the story are the golden eggs, the golden coins, the harp etc...  We are having fun telling the story or being part of the audience.

 


You will never believe what we found in our classroom today...a spider!!!  But, we didn't step on it, we put it in a jar.  Mrs. Mendonca poked holes at the top of the jar....a few minutes later, the spider escaped because one of the holes was too big!  Oh no!  We quickly fixed the hole, and started to observe the spider.

This is our spider.

Alicia observed the spider and drew a picture of her observations.

"What do spiders eat?", we wondered.  So we did some research on the Ipad.  Most spiders eat bugs and other insects, some eat fruit and leaves.  Well, we didn't have any extra bugs lying around, so we put in one of Matteo's grapes from his snack, and a small piece of Bailee's banana.  We also added a stick for our spider friend to crawl on.

"What should we name the spider?" one friend asked.  So , we brainstormed a list and made a graph.  Everyone voted for their favouriite spider name.  Can you look at the graph and tell which name had the most votes?