What a great, busy day!

Look at our "Caterpillars"!
Luckily, these ones are edible!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Swimming is so much fun!

Sploooooosh!

We are having so much fun with school swimming. We have students at all stages of swimming, from those who haven't had lessons yet to others who have had lessons and are more experienced swimmers. We've had lots of fun doing star floats, bobs, kicking, and having free time in the deep end and the hot tub. What a super opportunity for the students. Many many thanks to all the parent volunteers who have donated their time to come and supervise!

Planting our Front Flower Garden and More

On Monday afternoon, our class went out to the front garden to plant the beautiful flowers generously donated to us by Poitras Greenhouse. We have a beautiful, colourful selection of red, pink, purple and pale yellow petunias, as well as some bright gold marigolds. Look at the before and after pictures below - the students worked so hard to create such a stunning garden!

Mrs. Wielgosh demonstrating how to plant the flowers.

Our finished garden - WOW!!

On Friday, June 8, 4 wonderful volunteers - Mrs. Kowalchuk, Mrs. Omichinski, Mrs. Leochko, and Mrs.Wielgosh came in to help us sew our own sandwich bags to further reinforce the learning we did in May about the 3Rs - reducing our waste, reusing containers and sandwich bags, and recycling paper, metal, and plastic, and composting. We are all doing a better job of practicing the 3Rs, and LOVE our new sandwich bags - don't you think they are great?

Goodbye to our little feathered friends :(

Yesterday we said goodbye to our sweet little chicks and ducks. Our chicks hatched 3 weeks ago and our ducklings 2 weeks ago. We were able to watch a miracle of life in our classrooms. They have shared time between Rooms 188 and 192 and between Mrs. Wielgosh's and Mrs. Robinson's homes. They went to a very good home on a hobby farm. We had one last visit with them in the front garden of the school, where we got to watch and sketch them. We are going to miss them very much, but it's time they went to a bigger place where they have more room to roam.

Caramel and Cheetah, our chicks, and
Sunshine and Moonlight, our ducks.

Sketching the chicks and ducks one last time.

Swimming in the pool!

What a busy month!



Meet "Sunshine", just newly hatched,
 with her head inside her shell!

Sunshine, drying off and looking around.

Sunshine, out in the schoolyard.

Sunshine's mate "Moonlight".

We have had so much action this month with our lifecyles theme! Our butterflies emerged from their chrysalises and we released them, our ducks, "Sunshine" and "Moonlight" hatched, and we have been busy planting our vegetable garden out back and the flower garden out front. Thanks so much to Kathy Luczek at Poitras Greenhouses for her super generouse donation of all the flowers in our front garden! They are gorgeous!