KA Explores Flight

An interest has been growing in KA for a month now around airplanes.  It began with a student who brought in a mini airport with the intention of adding it to Madgascar.  This inspired some of the children to begin to make paper airplanes and since Miss Heffernan is certainly not a paper airplane expert, we consulted an online tutorial.

Mr. Farnworth's class caught wind that we were interested in airplanes and 3 of his students created and kept track of 170 airplanes for KA!

We began by exploring how far they flew using our measurement words and observation skills.  We noticed elements of the airplane that helped it to fly.

Miss Rowe (our student teacher from Nippissing) created centres where students were invited to build  an airplane out of blocks and another where students could sketch airplanes using books.  We were thrilled by how engaged the children were and also about the flight vocabulary that was being used.

Mrs. McGirr heard we were looking for a pilot and has a neighbour who is going to come in to share with us.  We drew and wrote our questions for him and compiled them into a big list.

After reading a story about a bear exploring clouds in the sky, we went out for a cloud wonder walk and found many shapes and creatures within the clouds.