How is it June already?
June has been a busy month full of school activities, a field trip, special assemblies, and even a Lip Dub. It seems like a blur to be honest, but we have one more week before summer break.
The Super Kids along with the other 3 multiage 1/2 classrooms took a field trip to Mini University. Mini U is a program held at The University Of Manitoba for kids to participate in camps and school programs with a team building focus. I personally worked for Mini U in the summer when I attended the University many years ago and I was excited to bring my class to the program. We played parachute games, dodge ball, scooter hungry hippos, and much more. With all that activity, many of the kids fell asleep on the bus on the way home!
Our school has an annual family BBQ put on my our parent council. Families come armed with lawn chairs to help celebrate our year together. Bouncers, a dunk tank, and even food trucks were there. Thank you to the PAC for organizing another successful family BBQ!
The Super Kids were excited to make their dads a special gift for Father’s Day.
Inspired by our “Tree Of Life” art instillation, the class created their own trees in the Klimt style for their dads. Dads are important to our family tree so we made the connection to our artist study. The first step was to practice on whiteboards before painting our gold trees.
Next, the class slowly painted their trees and added Klimt inspired shapes.
Then it was time to make a BBQ rub called “Dad’s Grub Rub” and cards.
Our classroom tree was the first one to be installed in the hallway as part of the whole school tree installation. Each classroom created their own unique tree to go in our “forest”. Plaques have been added by each tree to explain each classroom’s process and inspiration.
Our big question, “How does the world change quickly and slowly?” has wrapped up with the filming of our extreme weather green screen projects. Students became meteorologists, used props, and explained their research in a fun and unique way. Our interactive whiteboard became our teleprompter, the iPad became our video camera, and there you have it. A TV studio!
Next Tuesday we’ll be having our red carpet event where our classroom and Ms. Rempel’s class will be getting together to view each others videos. We can’t wait! Check out a couple or videos below by clicking on the links.
We were invited to an Earth Rangers assembly which talked about conservation, endangered Manitoba animals, and how we can help. We even got to meet some amazing animals!
New math games in June…you bet! We’ve been talking about Canadian symbols so naturally we started math games with Canadian coins. Other games have a camping theme that review even and odd numbers, and 10 more/10 less.
If you live in Winnipeg you know that dandelions are a bit of an issue! Have you heard of making a dandelion wish? Well, we decided to make some summer dandelion wishes on Friday since it was the first day of summer. We read “I Wish You More” first and got to work making our summer wish list.
In the afternoon each student created their own dandelion wish art. We reviewed what radial symmetry is from our citrus art lesson a few weeks ago first and incorporated it into drawing our dandelions. Then watercolour was added with a bit of salt for a special effect. The summer wish lists are going to be glued on the back for families and taken home on the last day of school with a few other special things.
Check out our school’s 2019 Lip Dub by clicking on the link below. Yes, that’s our Educational Assistant and myself with our class. I guess we didn’t quite get out of the shot!
One week to go! Each day will be filled with some special activities including summer STEM creations, celebrating our green screen, a few surprises along the way. 🙂
