Week of May 27-31

Dear families,

We had another busy week in Room 166! The words of the week were FUN and FRIEND. This week we continued our inquiry on plants and seeds, and learned how dandelions grow. We also wrote a book with our Reading Buddies about how our sunflower seeds germinated and will (eventually!) grow into tall sunflower plants. This is all connected to learning about various Life Cycles, such as that of the butterfly which we learned in our previous inquiry. We planted our two extra sunflowers (egg cup and all) in our Kindergarten garden. We also learned about all the things that are in a garden - not just plants, but various flying pollinators, birds and nests, toads, worms, and insects! The children learned two poems called "What the Robin Told" and "A Little Seed." We are also learning about the many parts of plants we eat. The children also completed a colouring task demonstrating their understanding of symmetry, making both halves of the butterfly the same.

On Monday the children noticed the amazing Robin nest in our Kindergarten playground. This brave Robin is sitting on three beautiful blue eggs, and we spent a day learning about Robins, and watched a video about how the mother and father will take care of the chicks after they hatch! What an exciting thing for the children to have nature literally at our doorstep! They did a terrific job drawing a picture of the nest and are very respectful of the mother bird and know to not touch the nest or get too close.

The children also completed their "This is Me in May" drawing and writing, as well as their calendar. Shay played two songs for us on his beautiful violin, Ethan played us a song on the piano, and Rajan played the piano too! A big congratulations to Anilee, Ethan, Seth, and Shay for demonstrating the TDSB Character Trait of Integrity. Thank you as well to Olivia's mom who was this week's Mystery Reader!

Finally, we made still life paintings of real lilacs - the children were instructed to paint what they saw, and the paintings are beautiful and interesting!

I hope you have a wonderful time at Springfest if you are going! Have a wonderful weekend!