Cookies, cookies, cookies!

Finally on Friday, we made pumpkin cookies to see what pumpkin tasted like!  Many of us thought they were delicious!

Sink or Float?

We read a book where people were using a pumpkin as a boat.  We had a discussion about whether we think a pumpkin would actually sink or float.


We made a t-chart.  Many of  us thought it would float, although we did change our minds too!!

IT FLOATS!!

Life Cycle Videos

Hummingbird from Stacey Matsumoto on Vimeo.

Caterpillar Observation Update

Our class has been very excitedly watching our caterpillars growing and eating.  Every morning, everyone RUSHES over to see how they are doing.  We have noticed a lot of changes lately.  We also have been writing in these journals called "My Butterfly Observations".  We write about the life cycle 1 or 2 days a week.  We noticed that they have been eating and there's a lot of poop in the container!  We have been doing a lot of work on butterfly journals.  Our larvae has gotten very big now.  Our caterpillars have been getting a lot of fuzz on them.  They are molting lots of skin.  We are hoping they will make their chrysalis soon - around June 1st.  Caterpillars are getting long.  The butterflies fly to Mexico and they find a lot of butterflies.  (We read about the migration of Monarch butterflies in a book today.  They fly south for the winter to warm places like Mexico).  Right now the caterpillars are shedding their skin.  Our class is doing a live stream of our butterflies.  It's a live stream in our blog and Miss Matsumoto set up a camera to watch the caterpillars.  (A live stream is a video that shows our caterpillars in REAL time.  We hope to watch them over the weekend a bit when we are away from school  We predicted that this weekend, some may go into their chrysalis.)  The caterpillars are almost in the chrysalis stage and they are fatter.  If they turn into their pupas, they try to put all of the body into the pupa and then they wait.  The chrysalis becomes transparent, then you can see them.  Then they can go outside and they make their wings so they can fly.  I have been noticing a lot of webby stuff in the containers.  And we think that is their skin shedding.  After this, you should check out our caterpillar video that we put on our blog too!

Written by EVERYONE in Room 163

Live Stream of the Butterflies

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Our Butterfly Journals and Experience

Wednesday, May 21

Wednesday, May 21

Wednesday, May 21

Wednesday, May 21

Friday, May 23

Friday, May 23

Monday, May 26

Monday, May 26

Monday, May 26

On Wednesday, May 21st we got a package with larvae in it.  Larvae are lots of little, tiny caterpillars.  First they started out in a tiny egg.  And then they turned into the larva.  And they will turn into big caterpillars and then they will make a pupa and they will sleep for a bit and then when they wake up they will break through and they will become a butterfly!  - Sierra

Some caterpillars are eating nutrients.  Caterpillars eat leaves and nutrients.  Caterpillars eat a lot of them.  And the caterpillars are getting big.  Caterpillars are this size of caterpillars.  And they are going to be a butterfly soon.  If they eat a lot of nutrients or leaves. Caterpillars sleep in the pupa.  The caterpillar just sleep a while to be a butterfly.  And the caterpillar is shaking and it gets out and turns into a butterfly.  The caterpillar is in Mrs. Kochan's class on a plate.   - M.

On Wednesday, May 21st we got a package with larvae in it.  Larvae are the caterpillars when they just come out of their tiny eggs.  We got them because we are going to watch their life cycle.  When we first got them, they were REALLY tiny.  But now, they have fuzz on them and they are getting fatter and they are longer.  They are almost full grown caterpillars.  They are going to grow up to be Painted Lady Butterflies.  We are sharing our larvae with Mrs. Kochan's class.  When we got them, Miss Matsumoto, our teacher and Mrs. Kochan had to make a special food for them to eat.  It's called nutrient.  They put the nutrient in the little plastic cups and we put the larvae in them.  They had a lot of nutrient in the cups and now there isn't so much.  The larvae have ate a lot.  - Ella

On Wednesday, we got a package.  In the package was larvae.  Do you know why we have larvae?  Because we are watching their life cycles - how they hatch from their egg and then turn into butterflies.  But we didn't get to watch them hatch from their eggs, they came as larvae.  Our class and Mrs. Kochan's class are sharing the larvae so we can look at them everyday so we can see if they have grown bigger or longer.  Some of classmates can see that they have some fuzz on them.  They were small on Friday, but over the weekend they ate a lot and they grew bigger and longer.  The butterflies that they are going to grow into are Painted Lady Butterflies.  Everyday, our class and Mrs. Kochan's class goes to look at the little caterpillars to see if they have grown bigger.  We have journals to write what we have seen for the caterpillars.  Lots of the caterpillars are shedding their skin.  When they are full grown, they make their chrysalis.  When they make their chrysalis', they are going to make them on their lid.  Then we will take the lids off and put them in this tent thing for the butterflies.  We have over 30 larvae.  I think that's all you need to know for right now, bye! - Evva

On Wednesday, we got a package!  In the package there was larvae.  We got the larvae because we are learning about their life cycles.  We put the larvae in little cups and Miss Matsumoto and another teacher, Mrs. Kochan had to make some food called nutrients for them.  They used to be really small but now they are getting pretty big.  Soon they will be making a pupa.  A pupa is a chrysalis.  They are going to be sleeping in the chrysalis for a little while and when they are ready they are going to come out of the chrysalis and become butterflies.  The type of butterflies we are getting is Painted Ladies.  We also have some Butterfly Journals where we are writing about them.  When they become butterflies we are going to let them go outside.  Now we are going to be learning about some different life cycles.  - Stella  

I can't wait until our butterflies grow into Painted Lady Butterflies!!!  - Lexie

Last week we got larvae in a package.  Larvae is a little innsy binsy caterpillar, but it's not fully grown.  After we got our larvae we were studying about butterflies and also we are working on Butterfly JOURNALS!  We are writing in our butterfly journals about what they butterfly's life is like.  Today, we watched a butterfly video about life cycles.  It was moving pictures of a real butterfly and words that are below the picture.  - Lara

On Wednesday, we got a package of larvae.  And we were learning about them before we got the package.  Then now today we were learning about other animals, I thought that we were just learning about butterflies, but Miss Matsumoto said that we were learning about more than just butterflies.  In June, we will have groups of three and then we are going to learn about other animals.  We have to decide as a group what animal we are doing and we have to take turns. - Lara

We got some larvae.  They've been eating nonstop.  Sometimes they rest.  They got bigger.  Some are still small.  They are going to be Painted Lady Butterflies.  - Isabella 

We have been missing....

Hello Everyone,

Sorry we have been absent from our blog lately.  We have been very busy and will try to keep the blog better updated.  Here are some highlights from what we have been up to for the past few weeks:



Hundred Chart puzzle solvers hard at work

Halloween Gym

Halloween Gym

Halloween Gym

Halloween Gym

Carving Pumpkins

Carving Pumpkins

Counting seeds

Pattern work

Science Research

Manitoba Museum

Yesterday, for the whole day, our class, along with the other grade one classes went to the Manitoba Museum for a field trip.  We took school buses there and back and saw lots of great things!  We spent time upstairs in the museum and downstairs in the Science Gallery.  We saw a Sense-sational science experiment and also got to eat ice cream!!  - Miss Matsumoto

The ice cream was -200 degrees cold.  This guy gave us four bags in our four groups that had things inside.  When I felt slime inside, first I thought it was a soggy diaper.  It was really slime! And we heard sound effects and we had to name them.  Then at the end, we got to go and play. - Isaiah

The guy who made the Manitoba Museum ice cream didn't even have to put it in the freezer.  It was liquid gas that made it cold.  There was lots of smoke.  - Enya

At the Science Gallery there was this thing where you would pull the rope and the chair went up and when you let go the chair would drop.  We saw some different houses that people used to live in a long time ago.  We saw a forest, some animals and we also saw wolves.  There was dummies that looked freaky! - Tanaye

We got to wear some socks and we were able to go in the maze full of mirrors.  The wall was filled with mirrors, and the floors were filled with mirrors.  It was a maze, but it was short and I loved it!  I wished it was big! - Lara

There was a racetrack.  People were racing cars.  The fastest car was the green car.   - Kale

There was a camera where you stand and put yourself in front of a wall and then someone pressed a red button.  You need to run back quickly and go back to the wall.  And then you look again at the wall and see your shadow on the wall. - Aiden

I was racing cars.  Then I was in the lead.  Then my car had rims and now I just changed my tires because I wanted them to be smaller. - Skylar

Testing Our Ears

During our class investigation of the 5 Senses, we tested how to help increase the size of our ears in order to hear sounds better. - Miss Matsumoto

2nd Last week of January

Last week we had indoor recess ALL week.  It was very cold outside.  We have been talking about and writing about our favourite food at our favourite restaurants.  We have also been learning about our 5 Senses in science.  Last week, Miss Hrynyk did a smelling experiment with us. 
- Miss Matsumoto

We played on the play structure.  - M.

Next week will be Spirit Week.  The first theme will be Thousand Islands dressing and you have dress like you are on Hawaii.  - Ella

Next Spirit day it will be Blue Cheese and we have to wear ALL blue!  It's going to be fun at Spirit Week! - Lara

I am getting bored of indoor recess. - Aiden

Eye See You

When we made our eyes, we used some of Miss Matsumoto's mirrors.  We drew our eyes and it was fun. - Stella

On Saturday, I bought a music box. - Lara

We drew our eyes and we drew them brown and black.  We drew eyelashes and eyebrows. - M.

We used Miss Matsumoto's mirrors and we looked at our eyes and we found our pupil in our eyes.  We used paper to draw our eyes and eyelashes too and the pupil and eyebrows. - Skylar

We drew our eyes with crayon and pencil crayons.  Some had brown and black.  Some had aqua and green. - F.

Lots of people's eyes are different colours. - Tanaye

On Saturday, there was deep snow in my backyard.  I stepped in it.  I needed a shovel to get me out!! - Carter

On Friday, our class, as part of our study on The Senses took a closer look at our eyes.  We drew our eyes in a close-up picture.  Everyone's picture needed to have a pupil, eyebrows, eyelashes and an eyelid.  We used mirrors to make sure we knew what colour our eyes were.  Some of our eyes were more than one colour!  They look fantastic!! - Miss Matsumoto