Each March our school has a special evening called Exhibition Evening. Each classroom shares their learning in a different way. Our school hasn’t been able to have this special evening due to Covid restrictions for the past 3 years. When our school shut down the first time we were just 6 days away from showcasing our learning. It was great to welcome families back into our school in this special way. Our classroom has been diving into a fairy tale inquiry for the past few months. With each fairy tale we made connections to ELA, math, health, social studies, math, art, and science. As you can tell from previous posts, these connections have lead to some great learning opportunities. Our Exhibition Evening had a variety of activities for families to rotate through. Families were greeted by a carousel in the hallway with documentation of our learning, art project connections, and explanations of curriculum connections. Families then entered our classroom through the drawbridge into our fairy tale classroom. Centers included:
- Our classroom created book based on the traditional Indigenous story of the 3 sisters. Mme. Meg, our teacher librarian, helped us with this process and the class was so excited to share their book with their families
- The Jack and the beanstalk station had our classroom created beanstalk, kid created castle made of 3D shapes, parts of a plant activity, and measuring using Jack and the Giant’s footprints as measuring tools.
- The Three Little Pig station had the students retelling the story with a storyboard, showing their learning about maps and compass directions, and punctuation.
- The Little Red Riding Hood station explained what a healthy meal Little Red should be bringing to her Grandma. Students shared their learning by explaining the food groups and sorting food examples.
- The Goldilocks station had students share their understanding of hot and cold through the use of thermometers.
- The Humpty Dumpty station was based on the book “After The Fall” where Humpty faced his fears and turned into a bird. Students shared their writing on what they don’t feel comfortable doing yet, their STEM activities, and what other animals Humpty could have turned into other than a bird.
- Reader’s Theatre Videos
Check out the video and pictures of the exciting evening below.
We hope that our families enjoyed the evening as much as we did!
The set up of our classroom, castle door, and art projects were the highlight of our inquiry. The class loved creating the environment to showcase their learning.
About a week before the exhibition our class, along with the other grade 1 and grade 2 classes, went to The Fort Whyte Centre for a field trip. We were supposed to go in February, but the day was the coldest day of the year! Our re-scheduled trip was a huge hit! Activities included sledding, a marshmallow roast, a scavenger hunt, outdoor games, and even snowshoeing. Thank you to the volunteers and educational assistants that came with us and helped make it such a fun day.
It was a fun filled day and many of the kids fell asleep on the way back to the school. This tired Super Kid fell asleep on his friend. 🙂
Festival Du Voyageur was celebrated in our school at the end of February. Festival Du Voyageur is held in the city of Winnipeg each year to acknowledge and celebrate French culture and history. We had a pancake breakfast in our classroom, made bannock with some parent volunteers, participated in whole school bingo, attending a French concert in the gym, and enjoyed stop drop and jig daily.
I hope everyone has had a wonderful spring break and I look forward to continuing on our learning journey on Monday. Take care. 🙂