Spring has Sprung!

Spring has sprung in Grade 1, and ducklings and seedlings are on the horizon!

Hatching Ducklings

Our duck hatching journey has begun! Our local farmer, Mrs. Junck, brought us duck eggs from her farm and is visiting us weekly to teach us about new life. Each day we carefully monitor the incubator's temperature and humidity. Near the end of April and into May, we will be welcoming our ducklings!

We are so excited for Day 28, also known as Hatch Day, to arrive! Until then, we will continue to pray for our little eggs and marvel at the new life growing inside. God is so good!

Planting problem

We arrived today, ready to plant seeds, but we had a problem … our seeds were missing!

We each received our own case files, with a list of suspects inside. We were challenged to work through several tasks. 

These tasks were a wonderful review of many skills, including comparing numbers, vowel sounds, shapes, blends, and more!

As we completed each task, we received a clue, eliminating a suspect. 

We found the culprit! The case of the criminal critter was solved and we found our seeds! We look forward to planting next week … stay tuned!

Seeds & Spring Chickens

Seeds

Today we had a visit from a quirky character. You see, Mrs. Beliveau didn't return to class after recess. Rumor has it she was spotted at Starbucks. Rather, Dr. Discovery arrived in her place, challenging the students to join her in "seed surgery"!

As part of our Needs of Living Things Unit in Science, the students have recently begun exploring plants. This week's "seed surgery" helped us understand that not all seeds look the same! We were surprised that different fruits and vegetables have different amounts of seeds, too, and that many seeds are eaten. 

So many more hands on investigations are to come as we learn how to care for plants!

Spring Chickens

Our chicks continue to grow! We are well over halfway through the 21 day incubation process. We monitor temperature and humidity daily and are eagerly awaiting the chicks' arrival early next week!

Today we "candled" several eggs from our incubator by placing them up to a bright light. This allows us to see inside of the egg and check on development. Can you see the blood vessels? Can you see the shadow, on the right, where the baby chick is growing? God is so good!

We are having so much fun with our learning!

A, B, Seeds!

How many letters in the alphabet? 26! Our ABC Countdown started yesterday, and we'll be adding a little sparkle and zip to each day with activities for each letter!

A - Awesome Authors and Animals

With a stuffed animal under one arm and a favourite book in the other, we relaxed with the letter A! It was a blast reading with our Grade 3 buddies!

B - BINGO

We enjoyed playing our favourite BINGO game, Rhyming Word JINGO!

Seeds!
This week we had a visit from a strange, but highly intelligent individual. You see, Mrs. Beliveau didn't return to class after recess. Hmmm. Rather, Dr. Beliveau arrived in her place, challenging the students to join her in "seed surgery"!

The students have recently begun exploring plants, and today's "surgery" helped us understand that not all seeds look the same! We were surprised that different fruits and vegetables have different amounts of seeds, too! What fun we had performing "surgery" to locate the seeds inside!

We sure enjoyed assisting Dr. Beliveau in "seed surgery"!

A, B, Seeds!

How many letters in the alphabet? 26! Our ABC Countdown started yesterday, and we'll be adding a little sparkle and zip to each day with activities for each letter!

A - Awesome Authors and Animals

With a stuffed animal under one arm and a favourite book in the other, we relaxed with the letter A!

B - Backwards Day, Buddy Reading and Building Birdfeeders

The kids looked really goofy today in their backwards fashion (the hoodies made us really laugh)! We also met up with our Gr 5's to do a little buddy reading 

Then we built beautiful bird feeders! Our day was loaded with the letter B!

Seeds!

Today we had a visit from a strange, but intelligent, individual. You see, Mrs. Beliveau didn't return to class after recess. Hmmm. Rather, Dr. Beliveau arrived in her place, challenging the students to join her in "seed surgery"!

The students have recently begun exploring plants, and today's "surgery" helped us understand that not all seeds look the same! We were surprised that different fruits and vegetables have different amounts of seeds, too!

We sure enjoyed assisting Dr. Beliveau in "seed surgery"!


ABC Countdown inspired by Mrs. Wells-Taylor's ABC Countdown