Butterfly week makes our year come full circle! We started the year with monarch butterflies and we will learn more about butterflies in general in June.

Yesterday we read Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies

Today we learned about the differences between a butterfly and a moth.

This morning for Tuneful Tuesday, after singing our songs, some of us started to try our hand at composing music! The kiddos write it - and I play it. I LOVED playing their compositions.

This piece is called "Koocy" (aka Cookie)

You can see the happy faces where I'm to play happy chords (major chords) and the sad faces where I'm to play sad chords (minor chords).

This piece is called "Lover"

The happy/sad chord indicators are beside the notes

 Fun Friday #4!

Making Magic Potions!

Climbing practice

Thank you to Stephanie for bringing equipment and expertise to give us some soccer fun!

I LOVE when the learning we do at school continues at home.

Look at this beautiful suncatcher brought from home - it was perfect discussion starter to wrap up dragonfly week.

Today we read Dragonfly Kites.

 

We are making dragonflies out of maple keys (aka helicopters)

We are talking about if we would choose to live underwater and swim like a dragonfly nymph or fly like an adult dragonfly.

Do you see the labelled egg? Love it.

 This week we are learning about dragonflies! My favourite insect!!!

Yesterday we read Soar High Dragonfly! We learned that  dragonflies start off as aquatic animals living under water and then they come onto land to fly in the air!

Today we read What's it like to be a Dragonfly?

We learned that dragonflies have four transparent and independent wings. Transparent and independent are two big words - but we learned them anyways!

For Tuneful Tuesday, I brought in a trumpet and a djembe. We had lots of fun learning about how vibration makes sound and there are different ways of creating vibration for instruments.

We each tried playing the djembe.

We can't share the trumpet - but some of us tried holding it.

Then we did a survey to see which instrument we would choose to play.

 Our third Fun Friday in the park! What a beautiful day! There was sun but it was not too hot. Perfect.

Great helpers!

I have vivid memories of swinging like this when I was young - stomach down. Run, run, run.... lift up the feet and fly!

Climbing wall!

 Today we read the Grouchy Ladybug.

The ladybug seemed grouchy - but he was secretly scared! Ask your child what ladybugs do when they are scared?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1k8nly1ls&t=265s)

We are working on science colouring (as opposed to creative colouring).

Ladybug addition!

Ladybug symmetry!

 Today in our morning message we learned about the "Bossy E".

We were sounding out the word "hope" but it wasn't making sense in the sentence. So then we learned about the bossy E. The E on the end of the word hope bosses the O around and tells it that it must say its own name.

We read Dot the Ladybug.

We also learned that ladybugs eat aphids. Ask your child why this is so great!