Pumpkin Investigation

Its... Halloween season! And our children at SES are super pumped to be doing a lot of Halloween activities. Today we did a few jobs. We predicted whether a pumpkin will float or sink and these are the some of the predictions that the children made (we compared it to a small basketball and a few coins):

Juleah: the pennies were different kind of shape. The ball is round, that's why it floats

Chase: the coins are made out of metal

Gavin: if you put holes in the pumpkin, it will sink

Rocco: the seeds inside are making the pumpkin float

                  Hmmm.... interesting predictions!

We also did a pumpkin estimation! We had two sizes of pumpkins, a small one and a big one! Can you guess which one has more seeds?

Big pumpkin

Small pumpkin

What are the children counting by?

Inference

What has the Grade 1s been working on lately?

IN-FE-RENCE (try saying it!)

Inference is using good clues to make good guesses. This is a reading strategy that the students are trying out! Try it at home with their home reading

Busy Week Ahead Of Us!

Hi Parents!

I haven't had the chance to blog lately about the classroom. We have been working a lot on behaviour issues.

On a good note, it is Friday! Your child has a few things to work on this weekend. We have the Weekend Web, and the -an Word Family worksheet. Those are to be completed for Monday.

It is also picture day on October 15. Please wear something nice but no blue jeans allowed. Bring a nice big smile!

Playdough Recipe

We have had some curious workers during literacy center time. They have been wondering about how to make the playdough we use in class. Here is the recipe I used!


Kool-Aid Play Dough


Ingredients:
• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 pkg. unsweetened Kool-aid (just the dry Kool-aid, don't mix it into juice)
• 2 cup boiling water (Can heat it in microwave)
• 3 Tbsp vegetable oil

Directions:
1. In a bowl, mix flour, salt and Kool-aid.
2. Stir in water and oil
3. Knead with hands for about 5 minutes.
4. Store in ziploc bag for up to 2 months.
5. Use like playdough.
6. Smells great and will be brightly colored.

(Cut the recipe in half if you don't want a large ziploc full of playdough)

Rainbow Words

Dear Parents,

I've noticed a few confusions regarding the spelling homework from last week. This is what rainbow spelling looks like. Your child is going to write the assigned spelling words in the 'Word' section, and copy it a few times using different writing utensils. They are more than welcome to use different colours to spice it up!