Yoga Babies Racing to Halloween

 The Busy Bees lived up to their name in our first week back after the Autumn Break.

On Tuesday, we enjoyed doing some yoga together with our guest yoga teacher. It was a nice little workout and the students enjoyed trying out all of the different poses.

We also began our second unit of the year this week under the trans-disciplinary theme of Where We Are in Place and Time. In this unit, our central idea is Personal histories allow us to reflect on and celebrate growth and change. To help us tune it to the unit, we looked at all of our baby photos and the students did a great job guessing which baby photo belonged to each of their classmates. We also discussed how they have changed and they commented on how they have grown, with their hands and feet getting bigger, they have grown taller, and they have more teeth. It was also noted that they know more about things now.

In PE, we started practicing some relay races in preparation for Sports Day coming up on November 23. 

In math, we finished up our unit on directions and patterns and used some classroom objects to create their own repeating pattern.

In science, we continued learning about properties of materials such as being flexible, rigid (or stiff), hard or soft, smooth or bumpy and the students were able to show their understanding by finding some objects for each of the categories.

Despite all of the fun throughout the week, the highlight was dressing up for Halloween today! Everyone looked great in their costumes and we had some fun with Halloween activities throughout the day. We did some Halloween themed yogo, dancing with Danny Go, played some zombie tag during PE and practiced writing some Halloween words.