We read "Anywhere Farm"

 You can make a farm practically anywhere! All you need is soil, water, sunshine and a seed.

Where would you plant your Anywhere Farm?

"In a bench."

"In my basketball." (Can you see the flower growing from the ball?)

We are also learning a new song about planting seeds.

 This week is "ee" week.

To end off our Earth Month learning and in honour of "ee" week we are planting seeds!

Thanks to the Plant a Seed and See What Grows Foundation, we have seeds to plant and workbooks to make our observations in.

I hope to see everyone at the school this Wednesday evening (May 1st) for Primary Literacy Night! It is from 5:30 - 6:30 and there will be lots of activities and ideas for ways you can support your child's literacy at home!

 Happy Friday!

Today we potted another pineapple plant.

We talked about how it knows how to drink water with its new roots now. So it; has sun (from the window), it can get water with its roots and now there is one thing left we need to give it.

"It needs soil!"

Here is the pineapple in its new soil home.

Parents: I have two pineapples in pots now and I certainly do not need more plants in my home. If you are interested in continuing to grow the plant at your house (they can get very large!!! - see March 20th post) please send me a note and I'll make a draw for the lucky recipients of our class pineapples. They love to be outside in the summer, but must come in for the winter.

The Barred Owl Owlets are growing so fast!

The voting to name the Owlets is complete!

And the winner is...

Midnight, Star and Moon!

 

We have been reading more Earth Day books.

We are learning that little actions can make a big difference!

We are making trees out of newspaper!

We are creating machines that help the earth.

"My machine plants trees!"

 Today we read Earth Day Every Day.

Miss Big Mouth uses her voice to encourage others to save the earth through simple things like;

- composting

- planting trees

- trading toys we don't use anymore with others

In Math we are working on adding and subtracting.

You can try little activities like this one at home.

If we had $10 - what could we buy?

I have six grapes. If I eat two, how many will I have left?

 Happy Earth Day! We continue to learn about how we can do our part to help the Earth.

We read the book My Friend Earth.

All week we will be writing about ways we can care for the earth.

"I can plant a tree"

"I can ride my bike."

This week we are learning "oo" words.

Just like the vowels - OO can make two different sounds. Think 'soon' and 'hook'.

Today we checked in on our Pineapple plants.
 

This one has grown roots! So exciting!

"I counted seven roots!"

"The roots is how it drinks water."

"Its ready to put into the soil." - yes we will pot it next week.

This one is not doing as well.

"There are no roots."

"There is lots of brown leaves."

We looked at the potted pineapple. It's still looking good!

I forgot! Earlier in the week, I told the class I would post our new song that we are learning. It's about a whale.