Thursday, June 17

As we are nearing the end of school, the students are enjoying their time outside. We have been doing games or free playground activities outside. They have done well remembering sunscreen, hats and water bottles.

This week we had the pleasure of viewing a Model T car from 96 years ago. This fit in perfectly with our Social Studies unit on communities in the past. We had previously looked at what life was like 100 years ago, including what it was like to be a student. The children really enjoyed seeing the antique car and were able to recall many details about it, even days later.

In Science, we have been doing our unit on the properties of liquids. We have enjoyed many experiments on the properties of different liquids (water, vinegar, oil, syrup), studied the shapes of drops for these same liquids and looked at surface tension (how many drops will stay on a nickel before the surface tension is broken?)

We tied orange ribbons to the school fence this week as an act of remembrance for the 215 children, whose bodies were discovered at a residential school in B.C. Our discussion of this important issue will be ongoing. Our focus was we tied the ribbons was on a positive message or promise. Several of the students promised to never forget these children.

In math, we have moved on to our study of 2D and 3D shapes. This week, we have created some highly decorated paper models of various 3D shapes so that we could begin the discussion of faces, edges, corners.