Sadly, this week’s post is going to be a tad shorter than the previous three as I was out sick on Tuesday and Wednesday. I really missed my class!

Monday, September 25th

In Literacy, we continued talking about our Classroom Constitution. We shared the rules that we had crafted and discussed edits and changes. Ms. Vanessa was out, so instead of yoga/mindfulness we read books and made some of our own!

Thursday, September 28th

During Theme time in the afternoon we reviewed a slideshow of images from last week’s engineering challenge. We talked about the difficulties we had using clay and coffee stirrers to construct towers. I introduced packing peanuts and toothpicks and a different challenge – build a tower as high as two cylindrical blocks. The children were skeptical, but soon found that these materials were more suited to the task – the ‘peanuts’ were less ‘goopy’ and the toothpicks ‘more strong’.

Friday, September 29th

We read a book about feelings and emotions. The children enjoyed acting out what they were feeling and challenging their friends to work out the combinations of emotions that they were presenting. My math group and Ms. Vanessa’s worked through a multitude of math problems through a series of games and challenges.