Science- What Would Happen If You Didn’t Have a Skull? The students learned about the important ways our skull helps us. Students thought about what would happen if we didn’t have a skull. Students learned that the skull protects our brains, it holds and protects our eyes and inner parts of our sense of hearing and it houses our tongue and mouth. It also allows our muscles in our face to attach to something and allow us to make facial expressions. The students then got to make a paper skull mask that had a moving jaw!
Oobleck– We had a guest from SCWIS ( The Science for Canadian Women in Science and Technology) come in a teach us about states of matter. We learned about solid, liquid and gas states and then a 4th state called plasma. We learned about how a substance can be both a liquid and a solid and that these fluids are called Non-Newtonian fluid. To demonstrate this, we made OObleck (corn starch, water and food colouring). OObleck in a suspension in which the cornstarch particles remain suspended in the liquid and don’t actually dissolve in the water. If you move the Oobleck slowly it will flow like a liquid. If you hit it or squeeze it, it becomes solid-like.
Halloween! All of the primary classes met in the gym for our annual costume parade! Each class walked around the center of the gym showcasing our creative, colourful, fun and interesting costumes! We then invited student volunteers to showcase sone of their dance moves. Here are the students from our class who went up and danced for the crowd! Very talented!
The grade 2/s classes then had about 15 minutes to dance around the gym with friends and classmates! This was lots of fun for the students !
In the afternoon we spent a while doing Minute-to-win-it challenges! We did races where the students had to blow a plastic ghost across the table using only a straw. The first to blow their ghost off the table was the winner! Then we set up three plastic cups and the students had to bounce a ping pong ball onto the table, trying to land the ball in the cup. In groups of 3 the students had 2 minutes to get as many points as possible, challenging the others in their group. Each time a ball landed in a cup was 2 points! Finally we stood across the carpet from a partner and had 1 minute to toss the pingpong ball to the partner while the partner tried to catch the ball in their plastic cup. There was lots of fun and excitement in the class while these challenges were being completed!
Halloween Black Cat art!
