An Entertaining Play!

Today the students of room 4 were entertained by some of their classmates, as some of the girls in our classroom performed a short play of "Little Red Riding Hood". The students had a director and a narrator, and organized the costumes and the practices themselves. We were all very entertained!

The Final Day of Our Outdoor Education Challenge! Mud, Water and Sand Day!

Thankfully the forecasted thundershowers have held off, and we are able to be outside for our final day of the outdoor challenge. Today we have new sand, water and mud for the students to use along with their imaginations for creative play. Not all students chose to partake in the mud play, but those who did sure looked like they were having fun!

Finding more "friends"

The wind helped with our bubble blowing!

Happy to See the Sun! Day 4 of the Outdoor Challenge!

The weather was much more cooperative today! Everyone had a relaxing laid-back day of fun.

Chasing the "earth" ball on the hill

Outdoor reading and writing during Daily 5

Quiet spots for reading

                             

Spray painting beautiful designs

Painting glitter stones

More fun in the sand

A game of human tic-tac-toe

Soggy but Smiling! Day 3 of the Outdoor Challenge!

Today was another soggy day, but it did not stop the students of Room 4! We started our day with a walk to the Leo Mol Garden to do a colour match scavenger hunt with plants and flowers with the Kinders and Room 8.

Once we were back at the school, it was time for some fun in the puddles!

Our "umbrella parade" heading to the Leo Mol Garden

Students demonstrating kindness and concern for others by sharing their umbrellas with each other

A purple colour match!

A brief stop at the nature playground.

There were lots of water-logged worms on the path. Ben found one that was HUGE!


This afternoon we worked on a team-building activity where we collaborated to build a large sand castle complete with a moat!

Day 2 of our Outdoor Education Adventure!

Neither wind nor rain was able to deter us for our second day of the outdoor education week challenge! We managed to create a makeshift tarp shelter over the play structure, the building of which provided some hilarious moments for the first hour! After that we explored various wet stations such as building sand castles, chalk painting and water play. We also headed off to Truro Creek to do some "critter dipping", which was very exciting when someone caught a "critter" in their net!!

Our shelter!

Heading off to Truro Creek!

  

Dragonfly nymph

                                           

Tadpoles, a damselfly nymph and a minnow

                                           

Colour blending in the puddles (powered by wind)

Outdoor Education Week Has Begun!

What a great day to kick-off our outdoor education week! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the tent caterpillars are crawling and we are embracing the joy of learning and playing outdoors! We will post photos on the blog this week to share with our families some of the experiences we are having. Enjoy!

Spending "tarp time" in our outdoor classroom

Working on a scavenger hunt

Outdoor music class with Ms. Versteeg


Painting sticks and rocks


Weaving on the fence






Enjoying the "sea" of dandelions


Making beautiful pictures with loose parts