Miss. Vanchu's Classroom Blog

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere!

We are finished our spider unit! For the next week the students will be researching and writing a mini report on a spider of their choice! The grade 1's are very excited as this is their first BIG writing task!

This week we learned about the life cycle of a spider, spider webs and we read various spider stories!

Life cycle of a spider.

We learned that their are many different types of webs!

We made spider webs out of glue and glitter!

We did a science experiment...

Why do bugs stick to spider webs, but spiders don't?

We first acted as the bugs and touched sticky tape, then we put oil on the tape! We found that the oil caused our fingers not to stick.

That is why a spider doesn't stick to it's web because it has oil on its feet!

We made spider webs out of pretzels and white chocolate! YUM!

We read ARGH Spider! Then we discussed if a spider would make a good pet, and why it would be a good pet!

It was a fun filled week in K/1/2!

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Elements of Art

The students have been learning about primary and secondary colours. Today we learned the difference between warm and cool colours. The 1/2's showed the difference between using warm and cool colours by using pastels!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Spiders

We have been busy learning about spiders the past week.

Last week we looked at the structure of a spider and the functions of a spider!

We also brainstormed what spiders can do, what spiders have, what spiders are and what spiders need!

After, we read a non-fiction story on spiders and wrote down spider facts. Then we wrote down our opinions on spiders. The students learned the difference between facts & opinions. We also made a cute vs. creepy spider graph!