Dear Division 8 families,

Welcome to our website.  In this post you will see your children in a variety of activities:

–Remembrance Day Bulletin Board- Stained Glass Poppy Art

-Remembrance Day Wreath-collaboration with our Buddy Class Div. 6

-Yize and Owen: selected in a draw to bring our wreath up to the front of the school

 

 

 

Halloween Day/Eerie Elementary Novel Celebration

-peanut butter sandwiches; the idea that saved the children from a school that is alive!

-our wonderful costumes

Counting and Estimating Large Numbers

-I demonstrated how to count and estimate using small groups of 10, as we counted all our pumpkin seeds from ‘Cookie Bon Bon’  (the children’s selected name for their pumpkin)

-then the students began to count a variety of collections from pasta to pompoms to old keys

 

Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies

-We spend most of the year connecting our learning to water (salt water and fresh water)

-we have been exploring the concept of “landforms”, noticing that many landforms we have above ground also exist below the ocean.  We connected our earthquake drill to a question.  How do earthquakes happen?   That led us to tectonic plates and a hands-on ADST project.

The Goal: construct a three story building out of marshmallows, cardboard, and toothpicks and have it survive a 15 second earthquake as it sat upon a red Jello jiggling surface!

-the students created great designs

-just about all of our structures survived!

-we learned a lot about what made our structures work; there were many approaches and not just one design worked

**special thank you to past PAC’s that purchased the CHOMP SAW that made it so easy for us to cut our cardboard.  Bonus: it is finger safe! It’s a rapidly moving hole puncher that cuts cleanly and added so much precision to our structures.