Flat Classroom Project Update - Cooking with Paul's Mom.

On Friday we were lucky enough have Paul's mom help us with our Flat Classroom project. She cooked with six different students from our class and they made Dirt and Worms. Ms. Lirenman thought it was cute that we were making dirt and worms because lately we have been studying plants. But unlike the dirty and worms we have seen while looking at plants this dirt and worms was very delicious. Check out the video of our cooking. Perhaps our flat classroom classes may try to make this delicious dish too. Enjoy!

 

Looking for Frog Eggs

This past week while running in Green Timbers, Ms. Lirenman spotted frog eggs in their natural environment.  Since she knows that Ms. Will will soon be teaching us about frogs she felt it was important that we go to see them too.  So with a few of our parents joining us for the walk, we headed to Green Timbers.  And guess what.... WE SAW THEM TOO!

What a great way to spend the first hour of a school day.  We are so lucky to be so close to this wonderful park.

Here's a little movie of our adventure.  Enjoy.

Something is Happening!

Something is happening to the seeds we planted last week.  Take a look.

Something out of the Ordinary

Today after school when Ms. Lirenman and Ms. Segec were going for their run they saw something quite out of the ordinary.

Why is this so out of the ordinary?

Exciting New Projects

This morning Ms. Lirenman told us about two exciting new projects we are involved with.  They are both on line and they involve learning with other children.

The first is a place that is safe for us to blog about our adventures with Fin.  We can still write in his journal but if we'd prefer to blog about our adventures we can do that too.  Now we can do which ever option(s) we chose. So YES we can write on paper and we can blog on the computer if we'd like.  You will see that other children are sharing their adventures with their special animals too.  Most of the children are from Ontario so it will be nice for them to hear about what we do in British Columbia.

Here is the link to Fin's blog.  Ms. Lirenman has also added a link to the right hand side of this blog to make it easy to access it.

The second project we are involved with is sharing what is happening with the beans we are growing in our classroom.  What's cool is that we are not the only class doing this experiment so they will be sharing with us too.  There has been a Wiki set up to hold all this information and each class will be adding to the wiki.  The wiki is called Full of Beans .  If you click on "Full of Beans" you'll get to that special wiki.  You will also notice that Ms. Lirenman put a link on the right hand side of the blog too so you can check it out from there as well.

A lot of exciting things are going on in our classroom.  We hope you will check back often and leave us lots of comments.  WE LOVE COMMENTS!

Learning About Plants

Ms. Lirenman has been playing with Comic Life on our class iPad and now she can't wait for more iPads to arrive in our classroom.  There are so many wonderful things that can be done with this App and much of what is created can be put on our individual blogs too!  Coooooooooooooool!

Anyhow, beside Ms. Lirenman learning about Comic Life for the iPad we have been busy learning about plants with Ms. Will.  So far we have taken care of a pocket seed, and our seeds are now growing (hopefully) on our class wall.  Ms. Will has also been teaching us about 2D and 3D shapes. We've learned about Canadian symbols, and recognizing safety signs too.  We've been learning a lot from Ms. Will.

Here is what Ms. Lirenman created using Comic Life and pictures of our plant  journals.  Learning is so much fun.

Flat Classroom Project Update - Cooking with Urim's Mom

This past week Urim's mom made Korean GimBap with six of the students in our class.  For those that were able to make the GimBap it was a really great experience.  Urim's mom was super organized and a really good instructor.  Plus what we made tasted delicious too.  Thankfully everyone in the class had the option to try GimBap too.  Now we can't wait for our other families to come to cook with us.  As of right now we still have three more families coming in to cook with us over the next couple of weeks.  Ms. Lirenman also tells us not to worry because we will all cook at least once.

In the meantime here is a video of our cooking session.  Ms. Lirenman still needs to get the recipe from Urim's mom though so others that are interested (and perhaps those in our Flat Classroom project) can try to make it at home too.

Enjoy.