I couldn’t resist getting a shot of our latest reading buddies! When the children have finished their independent assignments they have the opportunity to read. That morning I had received a new “suitcase” of books that the children were exploring. We had to go to the computer lab and when we came back I saw that they had left their “reading buddies” with their noses in a book! Too cute!
At the computer lab, the children have been exploring some of the new links I have added to the WIKI this week. I have added a few Christmas links and a link for the I Spy series. The Christmas links are from the ABCYa site. There is a Math practise site, decorating a Christmas tree and a Gingerbread House, and a Christmas word search. Love those word searches! Check it out!
Today we explored surface tension again with our experiment called Exploding Colors. This is another Dr. Zed experiment that I found many years ago! All you need is some milk, a drop of red, blue, and yellow food colouring, a toothpick, and some dish soap. Pour the milk onto a shallow plate. Add the three drops of food colouring. Then use the bigger end of the toothpick and dip it into a little bit of dish soap. I usually put out a little plate of dish soap. Dip the toothpick into the milk and watch the fun!
Today we blogged on our student blogs with our big buddy class. We wrote about our last big buddy day! Check it out!
It is amazing how quickly the children have learned how to navigate the various directories to insert their pictures! There are quite a few steps that they have to remember and then they also have to learn how to adjust the picture so that it comes up in the correct position. We are super impressed! Right now the buddies are scribing for us but soon we will begin writing our own entries!
I couldn’t wait! I am worse than the kids! I like Christmas. So I got out some of the Christmas stuff. We only have 15 teaching days in December so I needed to get a head start! We did some math with the new Christmas counting materials and workspaces. Too much fun! The children had to copy down and solve all their friend’s addition stories.
Mrs. Anton's Class! 