Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Visit

Today we enjoyed a visit from the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Center. Kate, the Educational Coordinator talked about many of the animals that live around us in Ottawa. We talked about raccoons, foxes, porcupines, skunks, deer, moose, baby bears, bats, beavers and more! 

We focused on why these animals are important and how we can help protect them.

We learned about their habitats, what food they eat, what they do for our city and how they adapt to their surroundings. We shared our learning on our Class Twitter page, click to see! @MrsCiampaClass

Ask your child to tell you what they learned today about habitats, the different animals and how we can protect the animals around our city!


For more information about the local center, check out their website: http://wildlifeinfo.ca/

Tadpole Wonders

At the end of the day today, we started to read a book about tadpoles. In Science, we continue to talk about animals, habitats and cycles of life. We are working to identify the life cycle of a tadpole. Tadpoles become frogs or toads.  During our story we learned that when a tadpole hatches from an egg, they look like a fish. They have a tail and no legs. We started to wonder....how does a tadpole get their feet? 

RC suggested we check on Google to find our answer. We can go to google.ca and search "Tadpoles for kids" and then we will see how tadpoles get legs! This is exactly what we learned about all week long during our digital citizenship lessons! 

Our homework for this weekend will be to find out how tadpoles get their feet! Please bring in your proof on Monday. You can bring in a book, or a printed answer from the internet. 

Can't wait to see the replies!

PS...don't forget to watch our Digital Citizenship iMove: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_20PwcxHZs

Describing Animals

In class today, we continued to talk about animals which is part of our unit in science. We are working to describe animals and writing about it too. 

The students recalled a little bit about what it means to describe. They said that descriptive writing means when you describe a thing or a person or an animal.  They remembered that when you describe something, you can use your eyes and your hands. We used our eyes to see and imagined we were using our hands to feel how we can describe one animal of our choice today.

Working with a partner, we chose 1 animal from our animal book library. Next we had to look at the animal and use words to help us describe. We used a 4 Fun Facts sheet to learn about 4 things about a particular animal. The students came up with some great describing words. Here is our Padlet thinking so far: http://padlet.com/wall/describeanimals

We are almost finished this activity. The students will get a chance to finish describing their animals that they chose. We will get to share what we learned next time. I wonder if any of our animal wonders on our Wonder Wall will be answered?

We are starting to wonder...

In science we are starting our Animals Unit. We have talked about what is the same about animals. We described what they look like, where they live, what they eat and more. 

Next we created a wonder wall. This wall will help us as we learn more about animals over the next few weeks. The students wrote various wonders about animals. We hope to answer these wonders. We will be writing about and describing animals so we hope to learn new things.