A short week, filled with playing and learning.

Enjoying the snow before the rain washed it away!

10 sets of hand prints = 100 fingers

Filling our classroom with rainbows this week helped us learn about the letter R.

Creating and reading words.

Playing with magnets.

Looking through a periscope on our submarine.

Playing hide and seek.

It's not just soccer, it's moving goal soccer!

We will be oceanographers for the next few weeks.

Morah Katie: Look at the picture of the earth, what is all that blue?

Dena: The water.

Levi: The oceans.

Morah Katie: Is there more blue or green on the earth?

Tori: Blue

Morah Katie: Water covers about 70% of earth!

If we cut earth into four pie slices, 3 would be blue and 1 would green!

Kian: It's a lot of blue.

As oceanographers, we are also marine botanists.

We know that seaweeds and algae provide food and nutrients for all types of ocean life.

Morah Katie: Does the seaweed plant look like anything familiar?

Levi: A plant.

Morah Katie: Yes, it is a plant. Where would you find seaweed?

Dena: In the ocean!

Morah Katie: The seaweed looks like a land plant, they are similar.

Instead of roots, it has a hold fast, and it's stem is called a stipe.

Seaweed has something special - a float! What do you think it does?

Levi: It holds the leaves.

Morah Katie: The leaves, or blades, are attached to the float.

When you float in water, are you at the bottom of the pool or tub, or the top?

Kian: The top.

Morah Katie: What do you think the float does for the seaweed plant?

Levi: Keep it floating.

Morah Katie: Yes, the float keeps the blades of the seaweed near the surface of the ocean, why do the blades need to be near the surface?

Morah Katie: What do plants need to grow?

Tori: Water

Dena: Sun

Morah Katie: Yes, why do the blades need to be near the surface of the water?

Levi: To get the sunlight.