Welcome to Room 102
I am so excited to spend Thinking and Learning with you for another year. Welcome new families to our classroom. Some information about our classroom.
THINKING AND LEARNING
Thinking and learning time a when children learn through play. A large block of our day is set aside for thinking and learning time. The students are learning through hands on , guided and independent play. The last 10 minutes of time are set aside to document the learning.The blog will show samples of the learning in our classroom.
DOCUMENTATION
Year 2 students have used this process to document their learning.
Children may be talking about documenting during thinking and learning time.The last 10 minutes of thinking and learning is set aside so children can document their learning.
The children have been getting to know one another and learning the routines
in the classroom.
Here is some things we have been doing the last 2 weeks.
Spider we found the first day.
Documenting our learning.
Sunflower from seeds we planted last May.
Fun way to show we are the same but different
Looking for seeds in the pine cone and wondering where they went.
Chrysalis from Monarch Butterfly.
Blanket game to get to know one another and learn our names.
Pumpkin we planted from Ben O seeds and then the pumpkin plant Mr. P planted with Grade 6 class in the spring.
Mr. P put a cover over the pumpkin to protect it from the squirrels birds and small creatures.
May
Today's pumkin
Alan brought in an Aloe plant . We discussed the medicine inside and each got a chance to feel it.
Fun learning.
Monarch butterfly ready to be released.
Mrs. Grillo bringing a flower plant for the butterflies. She has been bringing in the caterpillars the net and been educating us with knowledge about the monarch butterfly and recording her findings. Male, female, how many and which ones survived .
Releaseing the butterflies on the border of school yard.
Caterpillar.
We went on the walk to get the pumpkin from the school garden.
We planted raspberry bushes from my garden at home.
Ben's pumpkin from the the garden.
Documenting our pumpkin.
Up close look at the Monarch.
The sun flower plant got broken. We used this as an opportunity to learn We discussed kindness to nature and a up close look at the petals, seeds, leaves, and stem.
Creating structures.
Keagan's crutch.
Avery's dress up.
A close look and discussion about what we see. The butterfly eating fruit , and another one coming out of its chrysalis.
Sammy exploring the classroom.
Terrence making a structure with cubes.
Meatz documenting me with the ipod.
Terran's tower.
Meatz balancing his cubes.
Faris structure.
Painting with watercolors.
Fun learning in Room 102
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