Our Trip to the Science Centre

The Kindergarten classes took a trip to the Ontario Science Centre on Tuesday. The experience from riding the big yellow school bus to our Science Investigators workshop and back to our school at Roywood was exhilarating! We saw so many things, touched so many things and learned so many things. 

Thank you to our great parent volunteers that made this trip run smoothly. 

Here's a snippet of some of the things we did. 

When we walked in through the big hallway to the main hall of the Science centre we saw so many big old rocks. It was great to be able to touch them. 

 One of the highlights of our day was riding the escalator. We learned how to hold on to the railing and step on to the moving steps. It was scary for some of us but eventually we got used to it!

Lights on the floor! We chased the snowflakes on the ground and jumped onto the "pond", trying to catch the fish. 

The first giant room we entered was the Innovation Centre. Seeing and making things work in this room really riled up the excitement. 

Into the rain forest we go! The little rain forest area was hot and humid. We saw different kinds of poisonous frogs. Yellow ones and blue ones. We really liked the waterfall and crossing the bridge. 

 Running through the bat cave!!! It was dark and spooky. Some of us made scary noises as it echoed through the cave. Some of us faced our fears and even went in without holding a hand. 

A tornado!!! Someone said it looked like steam. 

Watching sound vibrations. Clap as hard as you can! Let's see how fast we can make it move.

Meeting our Scientist. 

Exploring with magnifying glasses. 

 What colours can you see in the carpet?

Looking at our fingerprints up close. 

Looking at the fabric on our clothes up close.

Shoe prints!! We needed to find out who's shoe prints matched the ones that were found in the rain forest. 

Using UV light to see frog footprints. 

Who's clothes have the frog footprints?? We used a special UV light to see the prints on the different cloth samples.

 Checking out the soil samples found. We were looking for leaves. In the end, we found the person who stole the frog! He confessed to taking the frog and returned it because he knew what he did was wrong.

Exploring the KidsPark. 

Wow! We had such a great time !!

Hundreds Day!

Last Thursday was our Hundreds Day celebration! Woohoo!! That means over half of the school year is over. We are 100 days smarter than we were in September. Wow!

To celebrate we did many 100 day activities. Take a peek inside our class:

We looked at different jars of things that MIGHT be 100. Our class voted on which jar they thought had 100 inside. 

Making a 100s day crown.

Making a hundred cheerio necklace or bracelet.

Number Bingo!

Counting the things in our jars using a hundreds chart.

Attempting to make a 100 paper chain.

Thank you to our students for bringing in bags of 100 things! We had candles, fruit loops, cheerios, numbers, folded triangles, beans, rice, pasta, Chuck E Cheese tickets, paper clips, elastics, googly eyes! 

Word of the Week

Last week our word of the week was:
PLAY

I like to play with blocks.

Our class thought of these words that rhyme with play: day, say, May, way, bay


This week we are learning 2 words!
he, she
He is wearing a red hat. 
She likes to eat bananas. 

Mystery Reader #1

Say HELLO to our first Mystery Reader!!

We heard a loud KNOCK on the door. When we opened it, we found Ms. Constas! Christopher's mom! Take a look at how interested we all were!

We listened carefully as Ms. Constas read us a book and helped Santa make and pack the toys he takes to kids around the world. 

Thank you for coming in! We had fun!

Word of the Week

Word of the Week

Last week's word of the week was: in. I went in the school.

Some words we thought of:
bin
fin
tin
pin


This week we are learning the word: play. I like to play with Lego. 

Let's see what words our friends can find that sound like play.