New Caterpillar Home

Today we learned we are going to do something new in the morning.  We are going to run around the lake first thing.  If it is nice out we will have morning meeting outside.  We hope that this will help us concentrate and focus on our learning.
Today we learned that the Ukrainian, Inuit and Acadian people have lots of celebrations.  Mrs. Lockton brought our caterpillars got a new house and we learned that one of the caterpillars died already.

Chrysalises

Yesterday at the zoo we played a game that taught us that bees take nectar from flowers and bring it back to the hive and give it to the queen bee.  We also learned that bugs help us in different ways.  One way is to that they make the soil that the plants grow in and they also spread the pollen to different flowers.  We learned that there are millions of kinds of bugs
Our caterpillars have turned into Chrysalises!  Today Mrs. Lockton brought us a video that showed us that caterpillars wiggle out of their caterpillar skin when their chrysalis is ready.   It was cool.

Traditions in Pakistan

Yesterday Mrs. Raza came to talk to us about the culture in Pakistan.  We learned that the weddings can go on for a week and have lots of people at them.  We also learned that they hand make their own clothes and they use a kind ink to draw pretty designs on their skin called Henna.  We learned that they make carpets by hand in Pakistan and she told us they are thick and beautiful.  We also got to try some traditional food like rainbow rice and rice pudding.  We learned that the women love to wear gold.

Ukrainian Traditions.

Today we learned about Ukrainian peoples traditions .  We learned they like to eat perogies as this is a traditional food for them.  They also like to eat a soup called borscht that is made with beets so it is red.  They have different kinds of instruments called panpipes, tsymbaly and a bandura.  Ukrainian people used to live in the Ukraine and they wear  they have colorful clothes. .

We learned that when we are writing animals sounds they sometimes don't look like normal words. We wrote the sounds that our animals are going to make when we write our duck on the bike stories.

We also got a new book order today and some caterpillars!

Plasticine Boats

Today we learned about some of the Inuit traditions like living in igloos in the winter and skin tents in the summer.  They used to travel by dogsled but now they use skidoos   We learned that an Inuit persons jacket is called a parka and it has fur around the hood.

We learned what makes a good Plasticine boat like not being to heavy at the bottom and the walls should be big so the water can not come up over the sides.