Continuing with our investigation into leaves we embarked on our leaf scavenger hunt. Further exploring the grounds around the school. Not only were we looking for what color laves we could find but also what type of tree had the leaf come from. By looking at the shape and size of the leaf, we tried to identify if it was from an Aspen, Maple, Oak, Beech, Pine or Juniper tree. We also discussed the evergreen trees we have around school and why they are called that.
In the classroom we explored the different parts of the leaf and the scientific names that are used for them. We learnt some tricky words such as ‘petiole’ and ‘midrib’.
We then had fun ironing our leaves from the leaf press trying to seal them inside the wax paper to preserve them.
Next week we will start to look at why leaves change color.

This week we also began investigating sound. We built some paper cup telephones using string and tried to see how far apart we could go and still hear each other. We discovered that the sound moves along the string as vibrations. When the string was shorter and tight the vibrations did not as far to travel so we could hear each other better. When the string became longer and thus became slacker, it was very hard to hear as the vibrations got lost along the way.

In math we have been working hard on missing number problems, memorizing our number bonds to 10 and estimating and measuring sizes of objects using cubes.
We have also been looking at the vowels; a, e, i, o, and u. We have explored the long and short sounds of these letters, finding words with those sounds in.