The ducklings went for their first swim! Wow! They knew how to swim without anyone showing them! Students delighted watching the ducklings swim right at eye-level.
After reading many books, both fiction and non-fiction, about ducks, we were inspired to create an art project with tempera, construction paper, and sponge painting.
This year, as part of our social studies We Care For Our World and religion themes of stewardship, grade one students are collecting and recycling writing utensils. These are returned to Terracycle and recycled into plastic picnic tables, garbage cans and lotion dispensers. We counted 291 writing utensils on our first collection around our school!
We have learned how we use our five senses of hearing (ears), sight (eyes), touch (through our skin), taste (tongue), and smell (nose) to make sense of our world. We learned how our senses can sometimes trick us, through experiments with smelling and taste. We completed an optical illusion art project, combining primary and secondary colours, patterns, fine motor skills of tracing and cutting and tissue paper art. Do you see the vase holding a flower or the silhouetted profiles of two faces? Students also created I Spy...mini-books, creating clues using their senses.