Spring Has Sprung!

It's been officially spring for a few weeks now but with the temperatures finally climbing we are able to add more outdoor time back into our learning.  This week we "planted the seeds" for this- pun intended!  Inspired by one student's "signs of spring" sharing from March, we delved deeper into the life cycle of a seed and here you can see Bronagh showing the children how the seed we planted at sharing time is on it's way to becoming a new bean plant.  We followed this up with a sequencing activity.

Speaking of getting outside more, on Wednesday we watched our 5th grade buddies in the culminating activity from their Star Base Program... the Rocket Launch!!!  "How long until fifth grade" was asked more than once that afternoon.

And of course, I can't miss an opportunity to share how the children are learning more and more from one another all the time.  Below you can see children reading to one another from their "just right" book packs, and friends putting their heads together to create more "vowel power" with their vowel shields right close by.