We Have Wonders!

This afternoon we went outside to check out our monster made from artifacts from nature.  While we were looking at our monsters this animal flew by and landed on our window.  Boy did we have a lot of questions...

  

Here are some of our many questions 

Where did this dragon fly come from? 

Does it have eye balls? 

Why are its eyes so big?

How many little eyes does it have?

How big is the dragon fly?

Why does it have a long tail? 

Why does the dragon fly have wings?

Does it have a mouth?

Why does it have blue stripes?

Why does it have big wings?

Why does it have clear wings?

Why does it have long wings?

Why does it have four wings? 

Why does it have stripes?

Why are there so many arms?

Are they arms or are they legs?

Is it a girl or a boy or both?

How do they eat?

What do they eat?

How do they fly?

Is it an adult or is it a child?

Does it hibernate? 

Why do the wings make a chirping sound?

How old is it?

Where does it live?

Where does it sleep?

Does it have a family?

Is it a mom or a dad?

If it has babies, how many babies does it have?

Why did it stay when we got close to it?

Why it come to visit us?

Is it friendly?

Is it poisonous?

Is it homeless?

Where does it sleep at night?

Does it sleep at night?

  

It's Almost Time...

Our class blog is just about ready to be up and running for the 2017-2018 school  year.  In case you're wondering this year we are Division 17.  Right now the children in our class range in age from 4 (and a half) to 8 and we are in kindergarten to grade three.  But really we are just a group of really fantastic children ( according to our teacher and she knows best) learning with and from one another.  We are excited to see where our year of learning together will take us and we hope you'll join along too.  If you're looking for more information from us check out our class twitter feed at @MsLsClass.  You can find many of our tweets just to the right of these blog posts.  Also our student blogs will be coming soon too and there you can see some of the work we are creating in class.  We love sharing with a global audience so please do come check out our learning.  In the mean time, thank you for your patience.  School start up always takes longer than we want it to but don't worry Ms. Lirenman has been busy taking our photos doing some of the things we've been doing.  Soon you'll get to see these photos too! We can't wait for that day to come.  Just be patient... it is coming!

A Perfect Day at the Beach

Today we traveled by school bus to Crescent Beach to enjoy a SAIL day at the beach.  We couldn't have been luckier with the weather either because it was sunny and warm but there was a nice cool breeze so we never got too hot.  Since we travel from all over the lower mainland to attend SAIL some of us just came with our parents to the beach.   It was such a great day that a bunch of us forgot to eat lunch!  Here are some photos of the day.  As you can see we had a really great day.

Making the Best of a Swimming Field Trip with No Swimming Pool

Yesterday we were scheduled and book to head to Bear Creek park to swim in the outdoor pool.  We walked over for our time slot. Even though the weather wasn't that sunny we were still super excited.  Unfortunately, when we arrived the pool was closed. Something had gone wrong.  With no pool to swim in, we headed over to the big playground to play at. About 20 minutes later the water in the water park next to the playground turned on.  Since we had our swim suits we quickly ran to the water park.  Even though it was a bit cold, and it was a bit raining we still managed to take a day that wasn't going so well and turn it into a day that was a ton of fun.  Being flexible is so important when things don't go as planned.  On this day we were a very flexible group of children.



The best part though is that because the pool messed up our booking, we get to go back to the park later this month.

Gymnastics Equipment

Right now the gymnastics equipment is set up in the gym three days a week.  There are six different stations with many different activities to take part in.  Here are some photos from our gymnastics adventures.

Salvador Dali

Today's guest teacher taught us about Salvador Dali and we were then encouraged to create our own versions of one of his melted clocks.  Here are some photos from our lesson today.