Division 7 read a really fun book called “Groundhog Weather School”.   The story is all about teaching Groundhogs how to predict the weather.  Folklore says that on February the second, groundhogs come out of their burrows to look for their shadows.  If they don’t see their shadows, it means spring is here.  If they do see their shadows, it means they’ll be six more weeks of winter,  

Our math equations:

Groundhog – shadow = spring

Groundhog + shadow = winter

We decided to make a graph about what we thought Wiarton Willie, Canada’s famous albino groundhog, would predict for weather this year. Then we analyzed our responses:

We watched a video clip that showed that Willie did not see his shadow, and so he predicted that we would have an early spring.

Parkcrest is celebrating Canada’s 150^th birthday by participating in an exciting project.

This project involves recognizing the contributions of a group of iconic Canadian musicians, Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip.  Their songs are all about Canadian identity and culture.

Gord Downie is a Canadian hero.  He believes in helping others, including raising awareness about the history of Canada’s indigenous people.  Gord was recently diagnosed with brain cancer.

Parkcrest Elementary along with Chaffey-Burke Elementary, is learning one of the HIP’s songs “Ahead by a Century”, which will be videoed and submitted as our contribution to the “Canada 150th” event.  The song will also be performed by the children at an assembly in May and also at the Primary Days of Music.

Stay tuned for more information on how you can be the proud owner of one of these T-shirts.

The children of Division 7 created a web using the Kidspiration software in our computer lab. 

A web is a visual map that shows how different categories of information relate to one another. Webs are typically used as brainstorming strategies for developing and connecting ideas.  Webbing helps children organize their thinking before writing sentences. 

The web that the children created is about everything they had learned about bears.  The purpose of the web was to help them write logically connected and sequenced sentences on the topic of bears.   Check out their eportfolios to see how they did.