Category: buddies

We have been enjoying “place based learning” with all this snow landing at our feet.  Our class seems to hold the record for bringing the most toboggans or other toys to make sliding down the hill more efficient.  Many students have been challenging themselves building ice sculptures.  What did you like most about snow at school? 

The “Hour of Code” also took place at Buckingham this week.  Our class helped the primary classes learn how to turn on laptops or ipads, and log in to the school internet (not always trivial), and then search for “Code.org” to get them started.  Check it out at  https://code.org/.  A highlight I noted was a grade 4 student teaching a teacher how to code using this website.  I know they both enjoyed the experience.  I think all the students enjoyed working with buddies.  What do you think make learning to code fun? 

Today we logged on to our computers and used WORD to create a list of things we have done so far this year. There were several things that the students wanted to highlight:

Brainstorm of our Ideas

Pumpkin patch – sunny day, Oct 27^th, hot chocolate, buddies,

Science- arcade, marble drop experiment

PE – dodge ball

Cross country – competition, running, winning

Odyssey

3 D art – cool

Lavel’s disappearance

Students were asked to choose one topic to write about for our blog.

stay tuned for our student “NEWS”.

Here is a sample of what you might see coming:

In the news! Division 3 participated in the annual great pumpkin hunt on Tuesday Oct 27^th.

This isn’t what actually looked like, but it felt like it was a huge field of pumpkins at our school….
Today we got to help our little buddies carve their pumpkins.

It was lots of fun.

What kinds of problems did you encounter when you did this task? Did you need to collaborate? How did you solve your problems? Please leave your comment as a letter to me by clicking on the “comment” link below.

FYI for tomorrow:

Costume parade will begin after 1 pm. If you wish to bring costumes, students will be invited to put them on at lunch time. This will be followed by a class tasting of “healthy” snacks. We have discussed bringing fruit (to dip in chocolate), or muffins or other healthy snacks to share. This is not intended to replace any meals so please provide a normal lunch for your child.
Thanks