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Thursday, 25 April 2013

All In One Day -- BUBBLE DAY

Lots of bubbles and tools in the water table to enjoy!

Students were giving photographs that were taken earlier in the year.  They could choose a photo and write what they were saying or thinking.  Some students choose pictures of their classmates and wrote what they were saying or thinking.﻿

Here are a couple of examples:

I love playing blocks.

I was writing Michael Jordon's body and I looked at the smartboard.
When students are writing in class, they are encouraged to sound out the words and use their knowledge of letters sounds.  Also, students are encouraged to use the word wall, words around the room and to ask their peers for help.  The word wall contains many beginning and common words.  
Blowing Bubble Art
Mixture - soap, paint, water
Students blow into their own straw and make bubbles.  When the bubble are over top of the glass, they can take their paper to stamp a bubble print.  Some students experimented with putting their paper blow the cup of bubbles, then blowing enough to over flow.

Marshmallow Painting
Students used pencil crayons or markers to draw themselves  blowing bubbles.   Then, they used marshmallows to create bubbles floating in the air.

Two students cooperatively created a picture together. 
This is what they each said about their work,
Kaylo - "Me and Elijah were blowing bubbles with helmets on, and we used rainbow colours.  And we tried to do words- bubbles and Elijah tried yes."
Elijah - "We were making bubbles, some went over our faces, some are big and some are small and we made football helmets so they didn't get our faces.  Kaylo's is yellow and mine is blue.  And we tried to write words.

Stamping Fun
Ella was so proud, she ran over to me and said, "Look, the word 'the' !"

Building Blocks
A Pirate Ship
I asked the students, "Where does a pirate ship sail?"
This was their responses,
Lucas said, "Island."  I asked, "What is an island?" He responded, "It's where pirates live!"
Ally said, "Ocean."   I asked, "Can you tell me more about an ocean." She stated, "Well, an ocean has sharks, starfish, seaweed, sea plants, and crabs." She then grabbed the kaleidoscope (below) and said, "I'm looking sharks!"

 Blue Slime

Many students created worms, snakes and snails.  They compared sizes of their animals. 
  Basketball Pictures
Everyday there are always many basketball pictures!!!