Happy Spring!
This week we started to look at signs of spring looking at plants, seeds, and grass.
... lucky for us one rainy day brought out a bunch of worms. We spent the morning collecting worms from the sidewalk. We researched how to make a worm habitat aka. a "wormery" and then got to work. The kids worked together layering soil and sand into an ice cream bucket. We added a layer of old leaves on the top as compost. The kids were all very brave and each student carefully transferred the worms to the wormery or to another bucket to return to the forested area in front of the school.
We spent the rest of the week learning about worms and making observations of our burrowing worms. We learned that worms do not like sunlight so we made sure that the worms were protected from the light by a black piece of paper.
We practiced our letter recognition and beginning and ending sounds with some worm themed literacy centres. The kids also read many non-fiction books about worms and illustrated their own fact books.
We had a measurement math challenge with a 3-Act Task created by G Fletchy. You can see the videos with the link below.
The kids had to estimate how long the worm in the video was. They worked in partners or small groups to make an estimation.
The kids had a great time and one group happened to guess the exact length. Wow!
We complete another fun measurement activity where the students each selected a different length of paper and created a worm. The students were then challenged to figure out where their worm fit on the shortest to longest graph.
In the afternoon did a drawing lesson for a cartoon apple and worm. The kids are very excited about our little squirmy guests... It looks like we may be inquiring about some other Spring critters this month... stay tuned!
One of our student brought in some awesome gems to check out under our new magnifying glasses.
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