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Congratulations to Science Games Participants

Congratulations to all of the Science Games participants who went to Science World today to compete! And thank you to all the parents who stayed as spectators, and a BIG THANK YOU to Naomi’s mom Sandy, who served as a team leader along with Ms. D and accompanied a team around to their events.

Ice Quakers (Michael, Vlad, Emma, David, Henry) created a vibrating diorama of an earthquake disaster, while Lava Power (Brian, Ella, Naomi, Kane, Ryan) constructed a working volcano. Both teams did a great job answering judges’ questions, made creative rockets for the paper rocket challenge, and used their thinking skills to break the code during the color coding (patterns/computer coding-related) competition.

Congratulations for all of your hard work! Everyone received a certificate of participation and some cool gifts from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (APEG) who run this event every year.

Special Congrats to Ice Quakers for winning the overall Gold Medal, placing 1st out of 16 teams competing this year from around the Lower Mainland in grades 4-7. They also won the Creativity Award Ribbon for their work during the games.

Pictures to come soon! I look forward to taking some more teams next year!

Have a good weekend,

Ms. D

Field Trip Survey — Please get parents to respond

Hello Everyone,

Please ask your parents to help you answer this survey as I plan two field trips in the future. These are trips I have not committed to YET, and this survey will help me plan whether we do them or not. If these trips don’t work out, don’t worry, I have some back up plans, and we can always plan something for end of year!

  1. If we were to go to the BC Cancer Agency for a half-day genetics lab and tour of their facilities on April 22nd, would your parents be willing to pay $10 for the cost of the bus? The PAC funds I receive would help lower it to $10 per student.
  2. If we were to do Dragon Boating in May/June for three sessions at $28 per student (cost = $7.30 per hour session), would you want to pay this and go? They have significantly raised the rates for the school dragon boating program this year, as it used to be $10 per student for all three sessions. All equipment is provided, but we have to get to Burnaby Lake.
  3. If we were to do Dragon Boating in May and June as above, I need parent drivers who are also willing to participate in dragon boating with us. Please respond and let me know if you are a parent who has time during the school day to join us. No experience is needed, but you would get wet and you would be rowing and/or helping with steering at the back of the dragon boat. No cost for you other than participating and driving.

Please let me know what you think!

Thank you,

Ms. D

Questions for You!

I am doing some planning for this week, and I need to know the following. Please respond to this post if you have an answer:

  1. Has anyone used the program Sketchup before (previously known as Google Sketchup) and did you like it? Why?
  2. How many of you may have a digital camera of your own you could bring on a special field trip / outdoors adventure?
  3. Does anyone have any engineering, architecture, or drafting iPad apps you would recommend?

Thank you,

Ms. D

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