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Room 7 was busy this past week getting their art work completed on their mother’s day projects. All of their hard work paid off and their finished products looked great! Take a look at the pictures of the students in action…

The nursery pm students have been patiently waiting for Spring to arrive! They had a special guest Mr. Jamie come to the room and tell them stories about Spring and they brainstormed and created art work about Spring. What do you see in Spring? What do you hear in Spring? What do you smell in Spring? The sun finally appeared this week and the students were so excited to get outside for a little while and enjoy it! Check out our pictures of some of the students playing in our playground!

The nursery pm class has been having fun this past week exploring with castles, princesses and dragons! The class has read stories together such as The Paperbag Princess, George and the Dragon and In The Castle. During center time the students get to play with a pop-up castle and pretend that they are princes and princesses. Check out the students having fun with the castle in our pictures…

The nursery PM class has begun their Letter of the Day study in the month of March. The Letter of the Day gets incorporated into all aspects of the afternoon. At carpet time we do an alphabet chant, we practice letter formation, we brainstorm words that start with that letter, and we create a Silly Soup Bowl using the words we brainstormed. During centers there are various alphabet activties or letter specific activties that take place. Check out our pictures of what they’ve done so far with the letters A, B and C!

Room 7 was very busy in the month of February! The students had the chance to go to the Western Canadian Aviation Museum with rooms 5 and 22. At the aviation museum the students got split into two groups. The first group went on a tour of the museum to see all of the old planes. The second group went to a room to learn all about postion, and then they got the opportunity to make their own cars out of lego to see if they could get the car to move from one postion on the ramp to another position. After each group was finished they switched places and got to see the do the other activtiy.

In February the students also had the chance to make dog orgami bookmarks for I Love to Read Month! The students did a great job following the directions and are still using the bookmarks with the books in their books bags.

For the past couple of months the students in Room 7 have been learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects.  The class started off with learning about different 2D shapes and how they all have attributes. The class was split into 4 groups and each group was assigned 1 shape (either circle, triangle, square or rectangle). The students had to look through various store flyers and try to find items that matched their shape. Check out the finished products…

The students than had practice sorting 2D shapes according to varying attribute rules. For example shapes on one side if they have 4 sides and shapes on the other side if they have less than 4 sides. The class was once again split into 4 groups and as a group they had to create an attribute rule, cut and color a lot of shapes and paste their shapes on their sheet according to their rule. They did a great job!

The students in Room 7 than created Wanted! shape posters. They had to create a person or animal made completely out of shapes and describe the “Wanted” person, ie. he has a square head and a rectangle body. The class did such a good job on their posters!

To finish off our 2D shapes and 3D objects unit the students had the opportunity to create 3D objects using marshmallows and toothpicks! First the students had to try and make a 3D object, once they had made one or two objects they had to fill out their worksheet about their 3D object. Finally their was a whole class group competition to see which table group could create the tallest building out of the marshmallows and toothpicks! The class had so much fun doing this!

To start off the month of February (‘I love to read’ month) Room 7 and Room 2pm started their book buddy reading! Room 2 got to go on an adventure down to Room 7. Once they got there, Room 7 had their book bags ready, they found their partners and the students in Room 7 read to their buddy! Both classes did a great job being readers and listeners! Take a look at all of the kids in action…

Room 7 had so much fun this week when Lise came back for our 3rd L.T.T.A. session! First the student did some stretching to make sure their bodies were warmed up and ready to go…

Next the students practiced acting like bears. The students practiced being big bears and little bears…

Then the students got to practice the steps to a dance that they are learning. They started off as bears that were swimming, than they saw a seal, ate the seal up, and than went for a nap…

Finally the students ended the LTTA session with a fun game called freeze dance!  Students had to do their best dancing until the music was shut off and then they had to freeze. If they moved than they were out of the game… the last two left standing won!

and our winners were….. Kelly and Rayleen! Congratulations!

Room 7 is super exctied for next week for our final LTTA session!!

One afternoon Ms.Diaz got the fun idea to create a tub of goo (also known as magic mud) for the nursery pm students!  Check out the pictures of the students having fun in the green mess! The kids hands were still green when they went home! It looked like Ms. Thomas had a class full of monsters!

The students in room 7 have had the opportunity to spend some time with a professional dancer to learn about “Characteristics of Living Things” through dance and movement. The first week the students practiced moving around the room as if they were different animals (ie. fish, bird, snake, etc). They also learned about the importance of stretching  before dancing. Check out these pictures of the kids in the second week. They had tons of fun!