Paper Egg Dyeing

 
What happens when crepe paper gets wet? 
              It bleeds! 
That was the motivation for the artwork this morning.

The children were encouraged to rip the crepe paper into
small pieces and lay them on their white egg shaped paper.
 
The fun part is using the spray bottle.  Learning how to press
it to make the water come out.  Making sure that the nozzle is
pointing in the right direction so you don’t spray yourself in the
face.
 
After it was wet we laid a another egg on top of the wet one
and pressed.

Most were very wet and as we pressed down we started
to see the colours come through.

Pull the two paper eggs apart to see what happened.

For smaller children we found it easier to use a brush
and water rather than the spray bottle.

Comparing Airports

Each year we visit our airport and each year we create our own
airport at school.
  
 This is the check in counter where we show our tickets and
 
have our luggage weighed and tagged.  When it is ready it disappears
on a conveyor belt into the Baggage Security area.  We can't take picutres
in there but the suitcases go through a big xray machine then out to
the cargo area.
 
At school we sell tickets and get the baggage ready to put on the plane.
We don't have a conveyor belt but we started thinking of what we could
use to make one.  One child suggested rubber bands and tubes.

  
We learned the signals that the marshal uses to park the plane.
Outside we saw a yellow “T” on the ground where the plane needs to stop.
 
Back at school we practiced the signals for turning and stopping a plane.

 
We added a runway with lights then after visiting the airport we added the “T”.
 
Ready to fly?
Some of our destinations were to Hawaii, Mexico, Toronto,
Vancouver and the most popular Disneyland.

 
At the airport we were able to watch a plane land, taxi in, marshal to a stop,
unload and reload.  It’s ready to head to Vancouver.
  
We saw where the pets are kept while waiting for their plane.
And what happens to the luggage after they are unloaded from the plane.

 
Back at school the flight attendants were busy taking snack orders
and providing reading materials for the long trips.


Thank you to Alex and Lesley for taking the time to show us
around the airport.  And letting us pretend to be planes on the
tarmac.
 

At the Pond

            
   This morning we were having a huge wind and rain storm. 
      So our field trip to the pond was almost cancelled. 
       
      But the sun came out, the wind died down and about a
                     half dozen families showed up.
 
           At school we’ve been talking about visiting the pond. 
            We’ve been talking about the beaver that lives there.
 
Our Nature Bags were packed with a scavenger hunt, mock magnifying
glass and pencil.  I’ve been collecting binoculars and we used those for
                            the first time today.
 
        We searched and found almost everything on the list. 
            We found lots of evidence of the beaver chewing.
 
We didn’t see any Robins although we heard lots of birds and saw eagles,
                          herons and ducks.
      
               We found buds on branches.
 
We found lots of rocks.  Some we had to dig up.  We used sticks
                           as digging tools.
 
    We had lots of fun throwing many rocks into the water. 
             Watching if they made little or big splashes.
  

         We didn’t find any frog eggs in the water. 
 
         We’ll come back another day to search again.

             We did find lots of logs to turn over.
 
      
               And that’s where we found a worm.

    
The families were excited to discover a new park and will be able
            to come back and visit on their own.