Earth Day Challenge

Happy Earth Day!  Earth Day is actually on April 22nd, but we don’t have school on Friday.  The Super Kids decided to celebrate on the 21st instead.  We challenged the whole school to bring a trash free lunch.  The class has been busy promoting our challenge by making morning announcements and making posters that they hung around the school.  We also challenged the teachers to turn off their lights for at least an hour in honour of Earth hour.  Our favourite classroom quote, by Dr. Seuss hangs over our classroom door and says, “A person’s a person no matter how small!”  We hope that all the students in our school know that they can make a difference.

We have been busy practicing our rainforest play, ” The Great Kapok Tree”.  We’re performing it tomorrow afternoon for our 3/4 buddies and our 1/2 buddies.  Next week we’ll perform it again for our Grandparents on senior’s day.  The kids are so excited.

The Super Kids are in the middle of their research projects on a rainforest animal.  Today they created a script with a few fun facts about their chosen animal.  They practiced in partners this morning and performed it in front of the green screen wall in our school this afternoon.

Thanks to a handy app that our student teacher found, we are transported to the rainforest!  Check out a few videos below.

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Continuing with our Earth Day theme, the class learned a new place value card game called recycle it.  The goal is to make a bigger number than your partner.  The twist is that you can recycle a card once and pick a different card.  Strategy was important!  Each partner had to record their number and use a greater than or less than sign.

On a completely different note…whats up with rubix cubes?  My class has gone nuts over them!  They bring them to school and take them outside a recess.  They can solve them so fast.  We watched a video on YouTube showing the fastest solver in the world.  He solved the cube in 5 seconds!  Some Super Kids have decided to make a genius hour project on them.  I hope they can help me.  Rubix cubes have always baffled me.  🙂

Mrs. Didyk and The Super Kids