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.
