Tuesday 29 March 2016

Seedlings!


Today we started planting a few of our garden seeds. There are different seeds that we can start growing indoors at different times. Today we started our celery, peppers and tomatoes. 

This year we wanted to try planting our seeds in some bio-degradable hand made pots.

 
We needed newspaper and a pot maker and a lot of man power to make the pots. 






Once our pots were made we started filling them with soil.





The seeds were next to go in. We then needed to water them, but soon realized that our watering can poured too much water into our small paper pots. We needed to find a different way to water the seedlings. 





"This is hard work, my arm hurts!" (Saying this while grabbing his shoulder) 

Mrs. Thwaites then went looking in our classroom for something to use as a watering can....she found a ketchup container.
Guess what.....it poured just the right amount of water for our pots. 



Not too much, not too little.....just right! 



Our seeds basking in the sunshine!! 

The children are very excited to learn about how things grow and how much work is put into growing your own food. 

~Mrs. Thwaites 








Tuesday 22 March 2016

Baking!!!

We started baking for our Camp Manitou  fundraiser. 

Just a few of the children wanted to help bake this time around, but that's ok, in the next few weeks we will be on a baking mission!! 

  

Taking turns, and working their arm muscles while mixing the sticky dough. 


We made......

BIRTHDAY CAKE FUDGE! Pouring the batter into the pan. 

SUGAR COOKIES, squashing the dough and cutting out the shapes 


The finished products!!! So yummy 


~Mrs. Thwaites







Tuesday 15 March 2016

Making Movies

With the use of an old projector and a white sheet we made a small theatre in the School Age 1 room!


 
We began our movie making by experimenting with shadows and hand puppets. We found toys in the room that light passes through and used them on the projector. Then, with permanent markers and some transparent sheet protectors, we made our own characters and backgrounds to make movies.
 

Then, we each took turns making a story with the characters and backgrounds we created.




~ Mr. Dueck