Spiders, spiders everywhere!

Our week started with a mystery for your children to solve: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT NEXT? The children were given 4 clues: 1. the item is found all around the world, including Africa, 2. it can jump, 3. it comes in many colours, and 4. it can live in many different habitats. The children brainstormed and tried to come up with ideas. Then a mystery box was passed around with the new topic of study inside......

..........SPIDERS!!!

Here is a list of the things the class already knows about spiders:

And here is a list of the things we wonder about spiders:

The children each made folders with spider webs and spider illustrations. These will hold all their work about spiders over the next few weeks. 

The children had fun illustrating this week's poem, sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell":

We had an exciting week in math. Karen and Jen's group is exploring numbers and the process of combining quantities to make a new whole (addition). 

Wendy's math group is working with Base Ten blocks to understand place value:

We ended our week with an entertaining performance by Flying Bob. He is an acrobat and circus performer from Saskatchewan, and he had us all in stitches!! His act included juggling, riding a unicycle, a tight rope walk and a pretty funny finale involving some Hello Kitty underpants! Ask your children about it. Here are highlights of the show:

Ribbon Tricks

Balancing Plastic Lawn Chairs

Flipping Hats on and off

Tight Rope Walk

Reminders: 

1. If you are planning to order poinsettias, please have your forms to Jen/Karen by November 30th. 

2. Student-led Conferences will be held on Wednesday December 5th. We will send home conference time request letters the week after next. 

3. Our Dickens Holiday Concert will take place on Wednesday December 19th in the evening. Please mark the date!

4. If you have any special holiday traditions that you would like to share with our class (crafts, baking, stories, etc.), please talk to one of us and we can book a time for you to come in. 

We hope you all have a restful weekend. Warning: you now have spider scientists living in your homes. You may never be allowed to squish an eight-legged foe again. 

(We cannot figure out how to turn the photos on our blog. If any of you know how, please let us know! Thank you!!)