Pumpkin Discoveries!

 

Throughout the month of October, each of the classrooms has been making pumpkin discoveries!  We have been measuring, sketching, carving, painting and creating with pumpkins!



Sharing our harvest....

 

Following our Hot Potato Day, we decided to share our harvest with Evergreen Basic Needs.  We were able to donate potatoes and pumpkins!



Fresh from our Garden ~ Mrs. Johannesson's class

Fresh from our Garden from Lisa Michaluk on Vimeo.

 

The children in Room 115 have been very busy!!!  After we picked our carrots from the garden, we created a survey to graph what we wanted to do with the produce.  It was a tie!  We decided to try carrots & dip and to make carrot muffins!  Many families shared their favorite carrot cake/muffin recipe with us.  We loved grocery shopping, preparing the carrots, making the muffins and sharing them with our friends in Room 116.

 

Thank you to everyone who shared recipes with us!

Our Potato Project 2014

The Potato Project from Lisa Michaluk on Vimeo.

This spring, the grade 2s & 3s planted potatoes with Mrs. Chapnick in our garden beds.  Now in grade 3 & 4, the children helped Mrs. Chapnick dig and harvest the potatoes.  We celebrated with Hot Potato Day on Friday, October 9th.  Each child in the school washed potato and wrapped a potato for baking.  Our chefs, Mr. Kustiak and Mr. Ostapchuk baked the potatoes and prepared the sour cream, onions and cheese for us with Mrs. Chapnick.  Right before lunch, the potatoes arrived ready to enjoy.  They were delicious!  We harvested almost 200 potatoes this fall.  After our hot potato feast, we had leftover potatoes.  These potatoes are being donated to Evergreen Basic Needs for families in our community to enjoy!

A special thank you to Mrs. Chapnick, Mr. Ostapchuk and Mr. Kustiak for making Hot Potato Day such a success!

From Seed to Salsa

From Seed to Salsa from Lisa Michaluk on Vimeo.

We have been on a Tomato Journey over the past few months in Room 132!  We planted our seeds and plants in June and harvested them in September.  We decided to make salsa with our tomato harvest and last week we celebrated with chips and our homemade salsa!  What an amazing journey this has been!

Bag it Up Challenge at SSES

We were counting up bags this week!  Putting the bags into groups of ten became the best solution to counting over 300 bags!  Great problem solving, girls!

Thank you to all of our families who have sent in bags for our Bag it Up Challenge.  We will continue to collect bags until the end of October.

Creating with Nature in Kindergarten!

In Kindergarten we have been talking about beautiful things in nature.  The students brought in their own bag of beautiful things in nature.  We read the book Leaf Man by Lois Elhert and discussed how she used leaves to create pictures that tell a story.  We then made our own creations using leaves, pine cones, seeds, acorns, rocks, grass and branches that tell our story.

written by Mrs. Gibson's class

I think it was very nice!  Mine was Mike Wazowski from Monster’s Inc. ~ Raymond

I made the eyes out of pine cones. ~ Kaitlyn

The leaves were very colourful. ~ Kaz

My leaf man was a unicorn. ~ Madison

My unicorn eats carrots. ~ Talia

The leaf man making was very fun! ~ Danyx

The leaf man were very kind ~ Dillon

The leaf man has to go where the wind blows. ~ Gage

The wind blows and when the wind is gone the leaves fall to the ground. ~ Isaiah

My leaf man is like a human. ~ Kalea

I like the leaf man I made ~ Laura

I made my leaf man with leaves and glue. ~ Matheson

I like my leaf man because I made two of them ~ Gunnar

I love my leaf man so much and I love the wings on it. ~ Jaylee

My leaf man is just a leaf man, but when I take it home I am going to put it in my closet. ~ Sarah

Mine is pretty! ~ Rebecca

I love my leaf man! ~ Faith

I like it so much that I am going to hang it up on my Christmas tree! ~ Oliver

 

written by Mrs. Bergman's class

Alaska ~ I used leaves, flowers and acorns.

Benna ~ He’s going for a sunny walk.

Berlyn ~ Little pieces of leaves were his mouth and eyes.  The pinecones are arms and legs.

Chloe ~ It’s special because I made it.

Christian ~ The leaf man is the orange thing.  There’s his favourite leaf, his cousin, friend and tail bomber.

Emma ~ It’s a bunny because I have bunnies at home.  I used 4 pinecones, 2 leaves and 2 seeds.

Jack ~ I used a sunflower stem for the neck, leaves for the body, and wild berries for the eyes.

Julianna ~ It’s like a circle, a dog with 2 grapes in the middle.

Kaiden ~ I made a pattern with petals, leaves and stems.

Katelyn ~ I had 5 green leaves and bunny arms and leaves for the arms.

Kolton ~ He looks like an acorn with grass at the bottom.

Kylie ~ I used leaves and pinecones.

Madeleine ~ I used pine cones.

Madison ~ I used leaves and seeds.

Marlo ~ I used leaves, bark, an acorn and apples.

Raya ~ I used leaves for eyes, pinecones for arms and the mouth was part of a flower.

Samuel ~ I used a Christmas tree, feather, leaves and flower.

Solomon ~ I used leaves.

Ty ~ I used leaves.

Vilena ~ I used leaves, pinecones, acorns, grass and bark.

Amelia ~ I had a rock for a head, 2 leaves for arms, 2 leaves for legs.  I used a sticker for a belly button and an eyeball.

Kaleb ~ I used a stem of a bull rush for the arm.  I used a leaf for the body.  I used a tree for a tree.  The other arm has a shield.