Hylebos Wetlands

Our first trip on the bus!

Slugs look better through a magnifying glass.

We think some animal was using this as a home.

I think we scared away everything except one duck.

This is so much fun! 

Collecting data about our community.

Can you see why we're so crazy about these kids?  They are actively involved in learning!  They are excited to try new things and curious about the world around them.  They are using observational skills to collect data about our community.  They are using tally marks on their survey sheets that we will use later to create a graph about what they saw on their walk.

A school bus AND a garbage truck!

How lucky are we!!  First our bus driver showed us the school bus and took us for a short ride in preparation for our first field trip this week.  Then the garbage truck came and wow!  He let us look the truck over and get in it!  These both fit in perfectly with our work on community.  Thanks to Ms. Joslyn  for arranging the visit with the garbage man.  It's been a big day!

Bike Day

Looks like a simple game of "Go Fish".   It's much more than that.  It's waiting your turn, listening to your friends, sorting and classifying your cards, and number recognition.  Not bad for a simple game of cards.

Taking apart the fax machine: working together and using fine motor skills.

 We're using the project approach to learn more about our community.  The above 5 pictures show different aspects of the project approach to learning.  The kids are using different mediums to represent what they have observed about the community around our school.

Bike day!  It doesn't get more fun than this!                                              

Bike day was a fun way to explore our topic of "Motion".   The kids just zoomed around the playground!  We had surprisingly few crashes during our morning of fun.  The children that started out the morning very tentative were confidently cruising around the playground by lunch time.  After some time outside, we came into the classroom and graphed data about our bikes and helmets.  First, we created a picture graph and then we took that information and represented it in a pie graph.

Fun and learning!  A winning combination!