Down and Out

 My apologizes for the lack of communication - I was down and out!!

Our work around life cycles continue and we have had a close up look at the life cycle of mice, chickens and frogs.  Today we read did a paired reading of the life cycle of frogs.  We had a look at a fiction story and a non-fiction text.  We found that there was still some good information to be had in the story book - although we did enjoy the up-close photos of frog eggs and frog embryos in the non-fiction book.

Some great patterns appeared before us today as we were relating seconds to minutes, minutes to hours and hours to days.  We also found that our new found multiplication abilities came in handy!  We have had a look at "Just a Second" by Steve Jenkins and can make reasonable estimates on what can be accomplished in a second, minute and hour.

"Carson Crosses Canada" was introduced with the question - "A trip from the west coast of Canada to the east coast is about 5,500 km - how long will it take Carson to cross Canada?"  answers ranged from one year to 187 days to 1 1/2 weeks.  We also talked about where we would go if we could travel Canada and children seem happy to visit Banff and Jasper while many would like to see Quebec.  Great discussions come out of picture books!

Toilet paper roll for Thursday this week please -

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