Mr. Belliveau's Class

In term one students were doing various activities to help them with their understanding of numbers such as place value and number patterns.

Division 10 has read the book How Full is Your Bucket and we created an anchor chart for what we think a Bucket Filling Classroom would look, sound and feel like.  

A wonderful book for adults too!

The class really enjoys filling each other’s buckets.

Welcome to your division 10 class blog!  I will be adding posts throughout the year with information about upcoming class events as well as projects and homework.  

Students took part in the Tomatophere experiment where they attempted to grow two different types of tomato seeds, ones that had been on board the International Space Station  (Group H) and ones that were grown on from earth (Group G).  They submitted their results to the Canadian Space Agency.  Their contribution helped the CSA in the field of space farming, a critical ingredient in the design of a life support system needed to send humans to other planets.  Here is a link to the national results:  http://tomatosphere.letstalkscience.ca/ViewResults

G – Control group; H – Seeds spent approximately 6 weeks on the International Space Station

This term Div. 7 was learning about force and motion in science.  Students learned about motion and the effects that friction has on motion as they designed, built and tested their balloon cars.  

The balloon car fleet and Japji’s balloon powered jet.

The students really enjoyed their time at the Seymour River Salmon Hatchery.  They conducted stream surveys which involved them measuring the width of the stream, the water temperature and depth.  The students also had an afternoon classroom session where they learned about invertebrates.

This week our students took part in the PASS soccer program in which they learned basic soccer skills and learned about sportsmanship.  

Division seven received a visit from a member of Vancity who taught the children about the history of money as well as basic information about borrowing and saving money.  

In March we had a visit from the SPCA and the children got to meet a new very cute and furry little friend.  Students learned important lessons about the responsibilities and costs associated with caring for pets.