Division 18 at Gilmore Community School
We have been learning about communities in social Studies. We learned about rural, urban and suburban communities. We also learned about places in the community and community helpers.
The students brainstormed places in the community and together created a mural. We have an urban area with sky scrapers, a mall, a hospital, school, lots of houses and a park, an airport, a train station, a farm and some cars on the road!
Today our Alpha big buddies came to our class to teach the students about primary and secondary colours. They also did an experiment with milk and food colouring and colour mixing! It was hands on and so fun!
We have been learning to measure things with non-standard units in Math. Students are practicing to estimate and measure a variety of things using paper clips, unifix cubes and straws.
Here are the adorable Easter bunnies and eggs. Students carefully drew the shape and made a design. Later they painted them with watercolour.
The first snow day of the season was welcomed by our class with joy and the feeling of “it finally happened!”
It was a very exciting recess to say the least!
Your child might it have brought home a paper towel creation this week. Inspired by the book The Most Magnificent Idea and new items to explore, many students were inspired to create things with the rolls and tape!
During this busy week, we jumped and got our heart rate up at the Jump Rope for Heart event. We aged a bit 😂 and counted 100 things, then ended the week with a Valentine’s Day party.
Students worked on designing different types of lines inside and outside their hearts with oil pastels. After, they painted with watercolour. The hearts are displayed in our classroom walls and on the windows of our classroom!
We are getting to the end of our light unit and today we explored with flashlights!
Students looked for objects that completely blocked the light, objects that let all the light go through and objects that were translucent. Then we used prisms to try and see a rainbow. Lastly, we opened our puppet shadow theatre and students started taking turns creating and telling stories.
We had an amazing time at the aquarium today!!
We shared our favourite part of the day back at school and I heard lots about seeing the sharks, touching the jelly fish, watching the 4D movie and seeing the axolotls.
Thank you to all families who came and helped out, it went so smoothly and it was great to see the kids enjoying all the different parts of the aquarium!
