JK has been busy learning about colours. We read “White Rabbit’s Color Book” by Alan Baker, and have become deeply interested in mixing colours to create new ones! We’ve so far tried watercolour paints, and have been using old markers dipped in water to see what colours are hidden inside the ink. We discovered that black markers can have some green pigment, and purple markers have some blue!
Stay tuned for our walking rainbow experiment…
Today we began a new unit: exploring the weather. We will be tracking the weather for the whole month of November every morning during our circle. Your children will be bringing home a weather wheel on Friday so that they can track the weather over the weekends and report back on Mondays.
As part of our exploration, we had our first official STEAM challenge! We followed the scientific method to discover what happens to the ground (earth, piles of leaves) when it rains. Each student shared a hypothesis. Some predictions were that the ground would get harder and it would turn to mud. Then we conducted our experiment by raking, shoveling, and piling some dry earth, leaves, and pine needles. We used a watering can to simulate the rainfall and learned that next time we need a bigger watering can! We observed that the brown earth changed colour to black, the dry dirt changed to mud, and the pile we made got flatter. We concluded that rain can flatten earth and that brown dirt changes to black mud when it gets wet.
We had a great time experimenting and are looking forward to the next one!
What an awesome day JK had! This year, the challenges for JK were about designing and building simple structures and objects like castles and bridges, cars and machines or creating dinosaurs. Our class has so much fun making and building a creative noodle recipe, haunted house, a chicken coop, boats for babies, an ant house, a big comfy chair, a rocket ship, and so much more.
Congratulations JK on your designs and creations!
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Calling all JK makers!
Global Maker Day is happening on Thursday, October 20th and we excited to take part in the challenges!
We are collecting items such as toilet paper and paper towel tubes, cardboard boxes (think cereal, pasta, crackers, tissues, etc. as they are easy for us to cut) and clean plastic tubs (think yogurt and sour cream). Please feel free to send in any other items that might spark our class creativity. The class that brings in the most recyclables wins a prize!
Important dates to remember:
Monday, October 17 and Tuesday, October 18 – NO SCHOOL for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
Friday, October 28 – 3:00 pm dismissal begins
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach!