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4 Hour Class - Taking it to the bank!


First thing is first - This week we welcomed a new member to our family: Erik!

Erik is showing me his new Ninja Turtle water bottle

Welcome Erik! It's wonderful to have you join our classroom family!


 We also had the privilege of visiting the CIBC Banking Centre at Seafair.  We got to see the vault which had a large safe inside and alot of Safe Deposit boxes. We learned that people can keep valuable things in a safe deposit box and that the bank has a key and so do they.  For security reasons I was unable to take many pictures on this field trip.  But here are a few that I did manage to take:

Lining up to get a chance to put some bills through the money counter

Ashton points out a brochure on "money cards"

Walking back to school...

...with our new... 

...pens!

Thanks CIBC!!

Next week we will be making a Thank You card. I asked the children what they wanted the card to look like, and it was agreed - we will have a card that looks like money! A bill to be exact - denomination to be decided. Look for a picture in next week's blog!


The Kitchen
The kichen area was a popular place to be this week

Many cookies were baked...

...And eaten!

Mayu uses an oven mit to take hot things out of the oven

Weston makes cookies

Clayten prepares a tray of food

 Patricia and I wait for the lunch that Weston has made for us...

...Weston serves us our lunch!


Magnetic Blocks
Another popular toy this week: the magnetic blocks

Everyone rallied around these toys to play with them

Cooperation, creativity and alot of comprimse ensued

The children waited patiently to get the blocks they wanted

And came up with many, really cool creations! 
Here are a few of them:








 Foody-Doody
Weston: "I'm making cat cookies"
Me: "What makes them a cat?"
Weston: "The knife."


At the Snack Table
Domenic and Noa both had hard boiled eggs for snack


The Letter 'G'

Adam practices writing the letter 'G' 

The list of 'G' words we generated 


Who Am Eye?
Noa and Mayu can tell you exactly who each of these sets of eyes belong to!
Can you?
Come on in to our classroom and try for yourself sometime!


The Playground
Playing in the sandbox - everyone takes turns with the big shovels

We didn't have to dig very deep to find water this time!




This old container came in handy!


And speaking of 'HANDy' -

Ashton made some hand prints!

Our play in the sand was briefly interrupted to watch 
the garbage truck empty the garbage bin 


Erik expertly crosses the monkey bars

We all line up to go in for lunch

A moth took a rest on my hoodie.

When we went to Terra Nova there was a dead seagull in the parking lot. The children wanted to take a closer look.  We talked about the fact that birds can carry germs that are dangerous for humans and that we shouldn't touch them - not even with our feet.  We also talked about the fact that there were flies on it because flies eat parts of dead animals.  The children thought of ways that the bird may have died: hit by a car, fell from the sky, it got shot, it wasn't very good at flying yet... here is a picture:




Once our curiosity had been satisfied, we headed to the park where, of course, a zombie attacked:

Running away from the Zombie


THE ZIP LINE

This week on the zip line the children were taking turns pulling their friends

And a few brave children tried it for the first time!



Safe Deposit Boxes
For art we made our own safe deposit boxes

Check them out on the documentation board!

We also asked everyone what they would put in their own safe deposit boxes, and here's what they had to say:

Ella: Fairy dust
Erik: A spiderman toy
Clayten: Pokemon cards
Dominic: People - doors people
Domenic: Little cars
Noa: Money
Mayu: Box
Adam: A batman toy
Ashton: Worms and bugs
Weston: Fire truck
Matthew: Mail box
Justin: Turtles

Once again, it has been a delightful week - and we can BANK on another one next week :)

Thanks,
Nicole

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