Pumpkin soup

Superhero Book Character Day

Wow what a fun day we had dressed up as Superheros! Snow White, The Cat in the Hat, Ninja Turtles, Spider-Men and more. We looked great!

St. Patrick's Day in Room 1

We were so excited to celebrate St. Patrick's Day today with Jenna.  Jenna is visiting from Ireland for 6 months.  We learned about leprechauns, pots of gold, shamrocks, the Irish flag, speaking Gaelic and much more!  We sung a leprechaun song (see below), did lots of St. Patrick's Day art and even looked for gold to fill our 'pots of gold.'  Jenna brought us in some shamrock chocolates that she had made with her Mommy.

Jenna told us some special things about her life in Ireland.  We loved hearing about the leprechaun that hides in the floxglove plant by her front door.  Every morning when she walks past she says something nice about the leprechaun's  shoes, like "Oooo I like your shoes!"  This makes the leprechaun happy so he won't play tricks on her!" 
We had such a fun day!

Jenna with 'Larry the Leprachaun's Pot of Gold'

Yummy shamrock chocolates with gold inside!

Gold!

More gold for us to find!

Ready to fill our 'Pots of Gold'

Lots of treasure! 

Marvellous Maths!

We are learning all about the numbers 0-20.  We are learning to count forwards and backwards, order numbers, say the number before, after and between and write numerals 0-20.  

Amazing Reading!

One of our task board activities at reading time is called 'Read to self'.  This is when we find a quiet place to sit with our browsing box and read quietly. This is great way to practice and enjoy our reading. Today we were all superstars at reading quietly to ourselves.  Well Done Room 1!

Our Monarch Butterfly!

On Thursday Mrs Blakesley noticed that a chrysalis on our swan plant had turned transparent.  

Mrs Blakesley brought the chrysalis inside so we could watch it.

We could see the black and orange Monarch butterfly inside.

Within minutes the chrysalis split open and monarch butterfly emerged.

Riley said that the butterfly's legs were long and skinny like a spiders.  It's sticky legs helped the butterfly to cling onto the branch.

We watched as the butterfly moved out of the chrysalis and slowly began to unfold it's wings.

Slowly the butterfly's wings dried and filled with blood so it could fly for the first time.

This amazing change is called metamorphosis.  We were so lucky to watch it happen!