Representing Spring

Students have continued to show a lot of interest in the Spring changes they are observing outside.

To capture this interest in the classroom we continued our classroom web about Spring.

As we read different Spring stories we added ideas to our idea web.

After adding many ideas to our web we decided to provide students with plasticine to represent their ideas of Spring.

Students quickly expressed an interest in the different ways they could manipulate the plasticine to represent Spring. 

Once their Spring representation was completed we recorded students’ description of their representations.

Through these representations students practiced many different skills, including;

Learning Links:

Social/Emotional: Persistence, Sharing materials with others

Physical: Fine motor skills-pinching, rolling, squeezing plasticine

Intellectual: Representing an idea using a variety of materials, Communicating ideas to others

Spiritual: Connecting to nature, Creativity

Here's a short video highlighting students' creations and their explanations:

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