Snow!

Hello families!

Today we woke up to a wonderful surprise! Snow! Some of the children brought some snow inside after Recess and we thought it would be fun to do a little experiment.

10:50am

What do you think will happen to the snow?

  • melt – Odin
  • it’s going to stay – Aayden
  • someone might put on the air conditioning and it might not melt – Quinn
  • it might evaporate – Finn

11:15am 

  • melting – Jayden
  • it can’t evaporate because the lid was on so the water couldn’t get to the top – Andrew
  • it’s melting – Aarya
  • it’s turning less dirty – Finn

12:50pm

  • I noticed it’s different because it has less chunks of ice – Andrew
  • it melted – Renzo
  • it has more water – Finn
  • the ice is really really small – Jayden
  • it’s cold – Maria
  • it’s becoming to water – Aayden

We noticed it started as a ball of snow and it started to turn into water because it’s hot in here – Andrew

This mini experiment led into an impromptu lesson on Properties of Matter. Here are a few things that we learned:

  • that soy sauce can freeze in the freezer. If you take it out it will turn back to a liquid – Quinn
  • water – Odin
  • water evaporates and it turns to gas – Jayden
  • water turns to hail – Kristy
  • clouds are made of water – Lena
  • when it’s really thundery when water droplets get pushed around in the clouds they freeze and after they freeze they fall down as hail. Sometimes the hail balls can get so big they can hurt you- Finn
  • when it’s windy the clouds have snow – Aarya

We also learned that the properties of matter are reversible. Liquids that can be frozen can melt back to liquid form, and when you add heat (energy) to water it evaporates, but can turn back to a liquid. The science video we watched today also talked about irreversible changes.  An egg starts as a liquid and when cooked turns to a solid. However, we cannot turn the egg back to a liquid. We also saw an example of someone burning a sheet of paper and it turned to ash. That is also an irreversible change as the ash cannot be turned back into paper.

Isn’t Science cool?

Happy Monday!

This Week is Literacy Week!

Hello families, 

I hope you had a great weekend. This week is Literacy Week! I wanted to let you know about the different school wide activities that will be happening this week. On Thursday, we will be doing a book swap. We are asking families to send in 1 school age book your child no longer reads. Every child will be bringing home a new book on Thursday. 

This weeks activities:

Tuesday, January 23

  • Dress up as your favourite book character day 
  • school-wide writing activity in the gym based on the anchor book “The Three Little Mittens” by Linda Bailey. Students are asked to bring a single/odd mitten or sock for this activity.

Wednesday, January 24

  • Pajama Day is on Wednesday
  • Cozy Reading/Fort Reading with buddy class. This is also pajama day and students can bring blankets, stuffies, and flashlights to cozy up and read together in creative ways.

Thursday, January 25

  • Book swap
  • Guest reader

Friday, January 26

  • Read-Your-Shirt Day (wear a shirt with any kind of writing on it)

Many Thanks!

Ms. Quin

 

 

 

School is closed today

Hello families,

I know our district website is slow due to high website traffic so I thought I’d post this here in case you didn’t see the announcement yet.

Have a great Snow Day!