Our Field Trip

Our field trip to the Experimental Farm was such a success! Thank you so much to all the parent volunteers who came with us. We could not have done it without you! Here are a few pictures of our trip.

This picture is of Madeleine, who was the guide for the red class. She gave us so much information about the many different animals we saw on the farm. We learned that the donkey in the picture help protect the sheep from coyotes and wolves. We got to pet Molly the donkey.

Here is Joshua trying to feed the goat, grass.

On our way to visit the cows.

We learned about how the farmers get the milk from the cows.

Madeleine is trying to catch a duck so that we could pet it.

Here we are at the pig barn. Many of the students complained about the smell.

Here is a barn that only a few students found on the farm. It was full of tractors.

We had a fun filled day!

Butterfly Update

Sorry for the late update on our butterflies. I'm sure you understand how busy the last weeks of school are. 

Mr. Norton had to take our caterpillars out of our classroom because our room temperature was too cold for them. Once they warmed up the caterpillars started to create their chrysalis.

At the beginning of the week Mr. Norton's class came to show us that some of the caterpillars had turned into butterflies. We were lucky enough to get to hold the butterflies.

Yesterday, Mr. Norton's class released all of the butterflies outside. We got to see them take their first flight! 

Thanks again to the 4/5/6 class for sharing this wonderful experience with us. 

Butterflies

We are very lucky to have such nice neighbours! The 4/5/6 class were kind enough to share 4 of their caterpillars with us so that we could learn about the life cycle of the Butterfly. We learned all about the four stages: 

1. Egg

2. Caterpillar

3. Chrysalis

4. Butterfly

We read the book The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle in both English and French. In the story, Eric Carle uses the word "cocoon". We learned that the correct word for the third stage in the life cycle is chrysalis or pupa. 

Emma decided to look through the story during centre time.

Making the four stages of the Butterfly life cycle. 

The students were asked to use stamps to show the correct order of the life cycle. The fourth stamp below shows the butterfly trying to come out of the chrysalis. 

Adam and Carter decided to make a play dough caterpillar.

Our caterpillars have grown a lot over this week. We keep checking to see if any of them will make their way to the top of the container and form a "J" like statue. This tells us that they are ready to start forming their chrysalis. 

Here is a picture of what our caterpillars look like today,