Flower Science

This week we were magicians and made flowers turn blue!! Well, kinda.  We saw a cool experiment during a clip we were watching about plants.  Since we love science we decided to give it a try.  To conduct our experiment we needed white flowerS, a vase, food colouring (we used blue) and some water.

Here some of the conversation that we had about our experiment...

Mrs. M "what are we doing in this experiment?"

M:  "we are turning flowers blue"

Mrs. M: "how are we going to turn our white flowers blue?"

M: "we're going to put water in the vase, and then lots of food colouring, put the flowers in, then wait."

Mrs. M:  "how long do you think it will take to turn our white flowers blue?"

M.G: "the whole morning"

J.R: "15 seconds"

M: "15 minutes"

L.W: "16 minutes"

C.H: "a whole night"

Mrs. M: "What is our Hypothesis?"

L.W: " The ones in the water will be white, the others will turn blue."

We watched our flowers for  the rest of the day.  at 3:00 we noticed that some of the white petals had specks of blue.  By Friday there were lots of specks.  We decided to leave them over the weekend to see how blue they would get.  Monday morning the petals we slightly blue with lots of blue specks!  Take a look at our pictures below!

Word Families

Today we are learning about word families.   At circle we played a fun game where everyone was given a card with a word on it (cap, hat, bat) that belonged to a word family.  Just like yesterday, the kinders had to find their friends who belonged to the same family. Here are some pictures!

Reminder...

Purple forms for the movie day on March 28th are due tomorrow (Friday).  Please note that pizza will not be available to buy at the door.  Tickets to the movie are free but donations will be accepted :) Thank you.

Also,

This weeks library books are due back by Friday, March 28th.  Please note that if your kinders book are not returned they are unable to take anymore out until they have brought them back.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Math

This week in math we are learning about 3D shapes.  We've been sorting them, watching videos, making discoveries, and singing songs. Today at circle we did a fun activity where the kinders were given shapes then had to search for friends with the same shape.   After, we were able to share with the group what our shape was and describe it.  We had a blast.  Here are some pictures of our sorting game and the poem we are learning.  Also, click HERE to see our favourite 3D shape song!

Spring Science! (Wishful thinking)

This week we've been working hard making discoveries about plants and trees at the science table!  Yesterday and today we learned about the different parts of plants and what they look like.  Here are some pictures of our plant activity and some of the flowers we invented today at the art table.

Green Thumb Award

Our class has won the schools Green Thumb award!  It is awarded to classes every month who do their best at recycling in all areas.  We set up a recycle centre with a green, blue and black bin  in the Fall and did research on what goes into them.  After months of being great recyclers we were presented with our award yesterday to share between the other winners.  We are  very excited and are enjoying having the green thumb on display in our classroom,  here are some pictures!

Check the Mail..

Two important notes went home yesterday.  Please make sure you have seen them.  If participating, the purple form is due back by Friday, March 21st. 
Thanks :)

Welcome Back!!

Our kinders were back all rested up and ready to learn after march break! Here are some pictures as we celebrated St. Patrick's Day, started learning about 3D shapes and planets, and opened the kindergarten garden shop.