Hi Parents

It sure has been a  busy exciting month.  We were involved in many building activities.   We built the 3 houses of the

3 little pigs – the straw house, the stick house and a recycled (brick) house. We built bridges using different materials and

we build two towers as well.

As architects and engineers we learned so many things such as:

- spaghetti is not a very strong material

- a triangle is a strong building shape

- a house needs a strong foundation, walls that are the same size and a roof

*Thank you so very much for sending in a variety of materials for us to explore with, we had so much fun.

We will be using our knowledge to build a community soon and would appreciate it if you could send any empty boxes

that you may have from crackers, Kraft dinner, cereal, etc.

We have begun our science study of the needs of plants and animals.  We had a wonderful trip to the zoo and have started

to research an animal that we are interested in. Thank you very much to the parents who were able to join us at the zoo.

We have also begun our scientific experiment with plants and are very excited to see how close we are with our predictions.

We planted bean seeds but we chose to try different environment for our seeds:

- soil, water, and sunlight

-soil, water and no light

-water and sunlight

- water and no sunlight

-sunlight, no water or soil

In math we are continuing to play a variety of addition and subtraction games to build our skills.  

We are really enjoying our in-line skating ! ☺

Did you know there are only 29 days left of grade one?

Reminders

No school Friday May 17 and Monday May 20