Field Day fun

 Here are a few pictures from our June field day.

Medicine River Wildlife Centre

 We were so excited that Medicine River Wildlife Centre agreed to come to us for a "field trip"! We learned about some of the wild animals that we might see around Alberta. We learned what to do if we see an injured wild animal and some strategies to keep animals safe. For example, cutting up plastic beverage container wrappers before putting them in the garbage. 

We were excited to meet special guest Olive the owl!  

Nutrition lesson

 We spent a week learning about healthy eating and nutrition. My daughter, Alexis, is studying to be a dietitian, so she prepared and led one of the lessons this week. She talked about the food groups, healthy food choices, snack choices that would be considered more of a dessert and should be limited, and food from a variety of ethnicities.

Mother's Day

We had fun making our moms a special gift.

First, we made fingerprint flowers.

Then, we added a button to the middle of the flower.

Finally, we added soil and planted a spider plant baby.

We hope our families love the gift as much as we enjoyed making it.

My daughter, Alexis, is home for the summer from university, so she was in all week helping us with this special project.

This is a picture of my spider plant that donated all the babies. :)

Nesting Box

We are watching the bird life cycle live! I have a nesting box in my yard with a solar-powered camera. We were excited to find that two house sparrows had found the box and started building a nest. Each morning, we check in to watch the progress. We are so excited!

stay tuned....

Four Nestlings! 

Feeding the babies

Earth Day

For Earth Day, we focused all week on things we can do to help take care of our Earth. Each student wrote what they could do for Earth Day. Then, we made a painting of the Earth to go with our writing. We had fun using marbles to create the artwork.