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4 Hour Class - SEAs the Day!

This week our classroom was being painted so we had to get out alot. Luckily we had great weather! Our first adventure took us to Centennial Beach in Boundary Bay.

It was a little cold, but we were brave and ventured closer to the water

Making many discoveries along the way

There were SO many interesting treasures to find!

Ashton found one of many crab shells

Clayten uses a stick to turn this crab shell over

It was foggy when we arrived, but it cleared up

Adam throws seaweed to the sharks...

Ashton is curious about what Adam is doing...

So Adam demonstrates!

Noa and I discovered this -

A heart-shaped piece of driftwood!

It was quite windy at the beach, which made it pretty chilly, but we were all very brave and fought off the cold as best we could! We also spent some time playing at the playground.

We did alot of careful climbing,

Tried alot of new and different equipment,

And played tag

We jumped on the climber,

Practiced safe balancing,



And did some swinging.

We also saw alot of really cool spider webs!


We also continued our exploration of the human body by making x-rays for art:
We outlined our hands

And glued the "bones" inside


And in the hopes of getting to take our exploration even further, we went to the Bio-Diversity Museum at UBC. 
When we walked in we saw this skeleton - We thought it was a dinosaur

But when we read the information, we found out that it was a blue whale!
We talked about what our jaw is,  where it is, and noted how 
small our jaws are in comparison to the whale's!

There were so many cool things to discover -
We did a scavenger hunt, but got side-tracked alot, 
because there were just so many interesting things to look at!
Weston, Ashton and Clayten are looking at some eggs.

This display case was full of animals with horns and antlers,
Some were skeletons and others were stuffed.
There was also a crocodile skin in this case -
It was very cool to some and a little frightening to others


There was so much to see and do at the Bio-Diversity Museum that we ran out of time - we hope to be able to return in the future! Stay tuned for photos from the scavenger hunt, which we will probably have on the board in the hallway...

We were all very impressed this week by how well our whole class handled our big out trips - we did alot of walking, faced some unpleasant weather, and spent some significant time in the bus, but it all went really well and a great time was had by all!

Thanks,
Nicole

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