General Happenings: Olivia's V.I.P Week!

Olivia was our V.I.P this week. We hope you had a great time!

General Happenings: Picture Post!

Here are some pictures from this week's activities. We had "open learning centres" on Thursday, so we were able to visit the other Kindergarten classes! Enjoy!

Our Current Inquiry: Making Steve!

We thought it would be neat to make some more props for our blocks centre that were Minecraft related. We definitely needed the main character, Steve! We knew his face was a square, but we wanted to make it 3D. We had to find something that was a cube! We used a milk crate covered in bristol board and made a grid. Then, we planned out how we were going to paint it by going row by row. We used coloured markers to plan which colour paint would go where! 

We had a bunch of friends help out, and the result looks amazing! We can't wait to wear Steve's head, haha :) More pictures to come when he's dry! (probably after March break :P)

Our Current Inquiry: Exploring Symmetry Through Minecraft!

Through our Minecraft exploration, we realized that there was so much symmetry within the images! This inspired our art activity this week! Mrs. Tortola introduced the concept of the line of symmetry, and how both sides are identical. For our art activity this week, students have the option to make a pixelated self portrait using graph paper and construction paper! They are taking awhile, so we will have to continue after March break :)

Some students were so intrigued by the concept of symmetry that they even took it into their play!

Manny blew us away with his amazing symmetrical spaceship! Watch him create it below :)

Kaiden, Maxwell, and Tawe also made a symmetrical castle! Way to go boys!

Our Current Inquiry: TNT Experiment!

To go along with our current Minecraft theme, we wanted to do an experiment with some "TNT"! The students had some great predictions to what they think might happen.

Ana: "I think it might explode into the air, up to the moon and onto the clouds".

Tawe: "It will explode into the air and the whole bottle will break open!"

Olivia: "I think it's going to fizz and then flow to the side because of the wind!"

Watch our experiment below!! Perhaps I should have moved it back a little more, or checked the direction of the wind first :P