The odd day of warm weather lately has inspired us to get outside and get planting! We started by loosening the soil in the outdoor tubs, ready for planting some bulbs. After the outdoor planting was done, it was time to get started indoors. We had some small seedling that were started for us by … Continue reading
Last week we made it outside to write some poetry. I’ve been dying to get the kids outside during our poetry unit. since we are surrounded by such an inspirational forest! It was a beautiful afternoon and the kids worked so wonderfully on their poems. Here are a few for you to read:
It’s been a wonderful week of weather-cold yet sunny! We went outside with our big buddies to go on an ABC Nature Walk. The kids got really creative looking for things in nature that would match the alphabet letters. Thanks big buddies!
Thursday was a beautiful day and a great chance to go out and visit our Night Tree to see what had happened over the holidays. We had decorated our little cedar tree with popcorn and cranberry chains and pinecones covered with peanut butter and bird seeds. When we arrived today, everything had gone except for … Continue reading
In the last week of school we read the story The Night Tree. In the story, the family choose a tree in the forest and decorate it for the animals. We got together with Andrea’s grade three class and together we made pinecone ornaments with peanut butter and birdseed and popcorn and cranberry chains. At … Continue reading
Last week we went for a number walk around the inside of the school. Now it was time to take our learning outdoors! We went to our wonderful outdoor learning space to look for more numbers. See if you can find the numbers that we found!
We definitely needed to take quick advantage of the good weather yesterday, and out we headed for outdoor learning. We went to collect some items in order to finish up our unit on Sorting and Classifying in Math. Wow, what a nice day! No boots, and no coats even needed! The next day we began … Continue reading
Still getting lucky with the weather as we took our first field trip today to the UBC Botanical Gardens. We had a great time exploring parts of the garden with our guide, Marilou. We headed into the garden and passed through the Asian garden, with one of the coolest trees being a kiwi tree. We … Continue reading
Our school garden begins! I have to admit, I’ve only eaten kale once, so I’m not even sure how to cook it, but it sounds like it’s a great vegetable, hardy over the winter, and a great place to start with our school garden. Thanks to Nancy, Connie, and Kyoko for taking so much time … Continue reading
Last week we had one of those teachable moments where we had to stop the math lesson and go outside to see an amazing sight0a Pileated Woodpecker going crazy on a tree outside our back door. Here is a video I found about the Pileated Woodpecker.
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