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After reading “Please Clean Up your Room!” by Itah Sadu, the class coded to help us retell the story.

[lisa richardson @BendaleRoom105]

This week, a family of owls 🦉 🦉 🦉 🦉 visited the kiddie playground for a few days! We were all excited to see the owls. The children are enjoying learning about owls.

[lisa richardson @BendaleRoom105]

This week’s STEM challenge was about our reading of “If I Built a House” by Chris Van Duden. The children enjoyed the story and built very creative structures.

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The children created winter wonderland pictures using oil pastels and after explored with liquid salt paint. What might the paint look like when it dries?

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We have some visitors saying good morning to us! They are also following our social distancing practices

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Some children noticed salt on the ground outside; that inspired us to do an experiment to see the effects of salt on ice.

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We even saw a special friend.

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We saw lots of footprints during our walkabouts this week.

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The children finished their family portraits. They are all so beautiful.

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On Pink Shirt Day, we talked about how we can show kindness to others and made a collaborative quilt.

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After reading “There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow!” the class did coding to help us retell the story.

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On Tuesday, the children sprayed giant snowballs with their choice of primary colour. They were excited to see the results of mixing the colours.

[lisa richardson @BendaleRoom105]

The children are learning to collect data and interpret people graphs.

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On Friday, the children worked in their walkabout journals.

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On Friday morning, we could not resist the fresh snow!

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After reading “Families” by Shelley Rothner, the children started to draw their family portraits.

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We had lots of fun in the Meadoway during our walkabout. We even saw animal tracks!

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The children had a great first week of exploring and reacquainting with friends.

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