Before Spring Break, Division 8 planted Warba seed potatoes. First we removed the largest sprout from each of our seed potatoes. Then we placed them in a pot of soil & potato food and we gently covered them with soil. Next we watered our seed potatoes. Finally we waited (all Spring Break long). We left…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I hope you all have a great day! In Division 8 we had a wonderful time listening to a story called My Heart is Like A Zoo (here is a link in case you and your child would like to listen to it again – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMksHENeO6s) Afterwards we decorated Valentine treat bags using this same…
Catch the Hatch!
When our eggs arrived we predicted the hatch would occur on Jan 27th, 2022. We were patient and observant and this afternoon around 2pm our first salmon eggs began to hatch! There are currently 2 of 53 eggs that have hatched. One of them is adventurous and hopped out of the pie plate habitat we…
Patterns in Nature
Our class has started a new math unit. We are studying patterns. To begin with we have discussed what we already know about patterns and we have gone into nature to view the natural patterns on our mountain. Here are some photos of the patterns we noticed. BRANCHING LINES / MEANDER EXPLOSION SPIRAL – also…
Salmon In The Classroom
Our 55 tiny, pinkish-orange, chum salmon eggs have arrived! They were delivered on Friday January 7th and the students welcomed them this morning. Here are a few photos – be sure to ask your child to tell you all about them. We are providing them cold, clean water and lots of oxygen. They have a…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! We are looking forward to seeing you next week. We also wanted to remind you that while you are at home you have access to our Epic! books during the school day. Enjoy the snow and be safe. Ms. Dixon & Ms. McGivern
Ugly Sweaters and Happy Holidays!
Earlier this week we had our Winter Concert – our class performed the song Ugly Sweater. The students had a lot of fun practicing and performing. I hope you got a chance to view the concert and enjoyed their performance. To get into the spirit of the song we even created our own Ugly Sweaters….
Remembrance Day Poppies
Just a reminder to families that this Wednesday students will participate in a virtual Remembrance Day ceremony at school. There will be no school on Thursday for Remembrance Day. In preparation for the ceremony each class has created poppies. “We had a poppy outline and tissue paper to make poppies….
Exploring Forces
The past two weeks we have had a lot of exploration time. Each day we have a guided exploration and then some time for free exploration. Our guided explorations have been around the concepts of Force. We have been looking at Balanced vs. Unbalanced forces and we explored the idea of Air Resistance. Students had…
How can a force push or pull without making contact?
We have been studying Force in science class. Students have identified contact (applied force; e.g. push/pull and friction) and non-contact forces (gravity, magnetism and static electricity). Today in class we were experimenting specifically with the non-contact force of static electricity. Here is a small video were we used static electricity to attract a small stream…