Fall and Leaves

 We have been learning a lot about Autumn! 

We have read many books, and have been observing the changes from summer to fall outside, in person.

We have collected leaves in our school yard, and have been learning about the letters and words that describe fall. L is for Leaf. M is for Maple, O is for Oak. 

 

 We are continuing to observe and learn about leaves!

 

Lines and Roads

 We've been learning so much about lines!

We have read many books about lines.

We practiced drawing some lines - straight lines, curved lines, zig zags, wavy lines ....
 

 We read Along a Long Road.

We talked about where we would go if we traveled along a long road. 

We each chose different media to draw our roads. We chose from india ink, markers, crayons or oil pastels. We each chose the size and shape of paper that we wanted.

Our finished roads look amazing on the wall in our classroom! The wall that they are on is about 4 m long. 

 

Close ups!

(The blank one is waiting for a student to return from a special trip - he will draw his road when he returns)

These are the destinations for the Room 9 students. Can you guess where your child's road goes?

 My road takes me to the cottage.

My road takes me to Swiss Chalet.

My road takes me to a dance party.

My road takes me to a birthday party.

My road takes me to a café.

My road takes me to a cottage.

My road takes me to my Oma and Opa’s.

My road takes me to the zoo.

My road takes me to a restaurant.

My road takes me to Monarch Park.

My road takes me to my Gigi’s house.

My road takes me to my family’s cottage.

My road takes me to my cottage.

My road takes me to a movie theatre. 

My road takes me to my mom’s house.

My road takes me to my home. 

My road takes me to grammy and grampa’s cabin.

My road takes me to Rouge Valley.

These were our Learning Goals and our Success Criteria for this project.

 

Pie Graph or a graph about pie

 We made a pictograph about the kinds of pie that we like.

Graphs help us see the answers to survey questions.

We ask a question to a group of people (take a survey).

We collect the data (the answers, or the information that we hear or write down)

We graph the data.

Then we look at the graph and we can answer questions about the data, using the words most, least and the same.  

We determined that most of the class liked chocolate pie and that the same amount of people liked pumpkin, apple, lime, lemon and grape. We did this by looking at the pictures. then we counted to check. We also counted that 3 people liked Strawberry best and 2 people liked Blueberry best. 

We are thankful for so much... including pie!

 We read many Thanksgiving books -- and focused on being thankful for important things. We talked about WHY we are thankful for things. 

 We talked about Thanksgiving and why it might be a little different this year (although, at age 3 or 4, the children don't really remember much about last Thanksgiving). We focused on family and talked about family traditions. We will talk about the food we eat at Thanksgiving more next week -- once we have more context for it (and for the students who don't celebrate Thanksgiving, we will talk about favourite family meals). We hope that you have a relaxing  weekend with family and food -- even if we are only able to talk to some of our family on the phone, or through Facetime, Skype or Zoom, we will still be together.

We found out that we ALL like pie! Some of us like chocolate pie best (10 students) (and I didn't even know that Chocolate pie was a thing). Some of us like Strawberry pie (2 students). some like blueberry pie (2 students). Some like pumpkin pie best (2 students) and 1 student liked grape pie, one liked apple, one liked lime and one liked lemon. Ms. Brown likes Cherry Pie the best, and Ms. Emerson likes Apple Pie. So we "baked" our favourite pies! And also graphed our favourites, and talked about the graph. 

 Look at these pies! YUM!

 

 

Wonder wands

 We worked on our fine motor skills by wrapping yarn around sticks to make our wonder wands!