Catholic Education Week is always one of the most exciting and jam-packed weeks of the year. On Monday, things started off with a lovely Open House muffin breakfast in the gym. It was great to see everyone and the children were proud to have the opportunity to show off our hard work. Both classes documented and displayed one of our talking circles (about your favourite thing at school/school memory), among other things.
We had SO MUCH FUN at Scientists in Schools Monday afternoon. Both groups participated in the "Backyard Bugs" workshop. Perfect timing as we have found many ants in our classrooms of late :) . We learned that insects have three main sections: head, thorax and abdomen. We also learned that insects have 6 legs, all about the life cycle of butterflies, how some insects camouflage themselves and how mosquitoes suck blood and flies eat their food (they spit on it first! Gross!)
We had SO MUCH FUN at Scientists in Schools Monday afternoon. Both groups participated in the "Backyard Bugs" workshop. Perfect timing as we have found many ants in our classrooms of late :) . We learned that insects have three main sections: head, thorax and abdomen. We also learned that insects have 6 legs, all about the life cycle of butterflies, how some insects camouflage themselves and how mosquitoes suck blood and flies eat their food (they spit on it first! Gross!)
We got to see what it was like to have compound eyes (couldn't resist the cuteness of these pics...)
Thank you to the parents who came in to help out :)
On Tuesday, we had the book fair. This was an exciting day in the Turtles class because a Turtle won the book fair draw! He won $25 in books and also $25 in books for our class. A great day!
On Tuesday, we had the book fair. This was an exciting day in the Turtles class because a Turtle won the book fair draw! He won $25 in books and also $25 in books for our class. A great day!
We also had a really interesting presentation by Hydro Ottawa about electricity and keeping ourselves safe! It was a busy day!
On Wednesday, we wore our school colours - green and white! This got us in the spirit for our school's 90th celebration on Friday.
Thursday was Dress as Your Favourite Book Character Day. Lots of cute costumes! Waldo, princesses, the Hulk, the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree.....here's Pinkalicious and Max from Where the Wild Things are that morning:
On Wednesday, we wore our school colours - green and white! This got us in the spirit for our school's 90th celebration on Friday.
Thursday was Dress as Your Favourite Book Character Day. Lots of cute costumes! Waldo, princesses, the Hulk, the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree.....here's Pinkalicious and Max from Where the Wild Things are that morning:
On Friday, we had a special liturgy in our gym to celebrate our school's 90th birthday. The mural that was made by our school was given a special blessing. The kinders were very respectful and excited about our school's 'birthday party' :) Thank you to Mrs. Wong for organizing a beautiful service and thank you to Mrs. Grant for our awesome shirts! #CorpusChristiPride
In between all the special activities, here's what we got up to in our classrooms:
Turtles - insect science lab, making flubber, playing dominoes, building with lego, baking treats at the bakery, experimenting with watercolours, counting by 5s....
Whales - shopping and planting at the garden centre, making insects out of playdough, documenting our own work on the Ipads, making palettes of the colours we need and painting beautiful still lifes of flowers, collecting the seeds we find in our lunch boxes, counting by 5s.....
Turtles - insect science lab, making flubber, playing dominoes, building with lego, baking treats at the bakery, experimenting with watercolours, counting by 5s....
Whales - shopping and planting at the garden centre, making insects out of playdough, documenting our own work on the Ipads, making palettes of the colours we need and painting beautiful still lifes of flowers, collecting the seeds we find in our lunch boxes, counting by 5s.....
Have a great weekend!