Skip to main content

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

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mosaic Garden Stones

Today our children had an amazing opportunity to work with Glen Anderson, a local artist specializing in mosaics. You can see his work at http://www.mosaicplanet.net . I met Glen last year at Urban Weavers Studio in Strathcona. I asked him many, many questions about mosaics, all of which he patiently answered with expertise. I was gearing up for an art project in our preschool class so I really wanted to get any pointers I could from him. The plan was to have our students make mosaic tiles to place along our fence at the garden plot at Terra Nova Farm. They worked out very well, thanks to Glen's great advice and it was a beautiful moment when child and parent hung the stones at the farm on our last day of school. It was a moment of great pride for all of us. The garden that they cared for with their own hands- tended to its needs in sunshine and in rain. They will always remain part of that space, that land and their stone will remind them of this connection. Even though they turne...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Love for Cabbage

Another day of working with cabbage-our prized cabbage that I babied throughout the summer. The cabbage that I saved from the demise of cabbage worms, watered, and surrounded with copper to scare away slugs. So, yes, babied. After all that care and love I was hoping the children would enjoy working with this gorgeous vegetable and like the taste of it. The coleslaw was a hit last week but would cooked cabbage get the same positive response? We assembled our ingredients for cabbage rolls and showed all the children. They smelled all the spices that were in the recipe and many of them loved the smell of the fresh garlic! They took great pride in recognizing onion, salt, pepper, tomato sauce and ground beef. I wanted to introduce them to another herb so we passed around marjoram, which many agreed smelled sweet. We pre-cooked the meat just so the children could work with the food without any cause for concern. The smell of the onions and meat simmering sparked the interest of many ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Volunteering at Richmond Food Bank

Today was our last day volunteering at the Richmond Food Bank. I am so grateful we had this opportunity– it has been an extraordinary experience for all of us. I, myself, have been very lucky to work in a community where I have seen dedicated volunteers working countless hours for people and projects they believe in. In my own community centre, the staff devote extra hours for many events, all to help strengthen our community. From these experiences grew a desire within me to try to share this with our children. How can we make them generous with their time and energy for the good of others? How can we teach them to be giving people– people that think of others? Are they too young for these concepts? In my need to answer these questions, I sought to find a volunteer opportunity for them. I thought about many different ideas but the food bank always came out ahead. I was lucky enough to come across an open-minded and risk-taking individual– let's face it, preschoolers gett...
Post a Comment
Read more