What we have been up to!

Making tessellation art

Went to the Science Center

Experimenting with congruency and symmetry on geoboards

 Constructing 3D shapes

 Dinosaurs in motion using pulleys!

Some simple machines

This week:

Tomorrow is trashless Tuesday

Today a letter sent home about 3 Occupational Therapy classes to help with transition to grade 5

On Wednesday we are celebrating Earth day but not using any technology.

Today I sent home a few marking sheets for past projects.  Please look over these with your parents.

This week reminders:

Tomorrow we are going to the Science centre.  Please make sure the students bring a packed lunch with a snack.

Tomorrow is also crazy hair day.  We will be back for the last hour of school so the students are welcome to wear their fun hair styles.

Thursday is pizza day.

Science

The students have had a lot of fun building their balloon cars and adjusting their designs to be more effective.

This week:

The students are building balloon cars for the Science unit building devices and vehicles that move.  We have purchased some supplies for them (sponges, plasticine, skewers, straws and balloons).  If they need anything else for their device they can bring it in tomorrow as they are beginning to build.

Video on building balloon cars.

On April 15th the students are going to Telus Spark.  They received their field trip forms today.  Please return the form and money as soon as possible.

Today was the first day of experimenting with a trash less lunch.  If the students had garbage in their lunch they were asked to pack it home.  We will continue this for every Tuesday in April.

Green Kids!

Part of our Science curriculum discusses waste in our world and what we can do to help the environment.  We had Green Calgary come in and teach us about landfills back in the fall.

They offer a kids drop in on April 11 2015 with fun activities extending this learning. Visit  Green Calgary website for more information.

Trash less Tuesdays

To help support our caretakers and think about the environment we are moving to a trash free lunch on Tuesdays for the month of April.  Students are asked to bring little to no garbage in their lunches on Tuesday and any garbage will be brought home with the students in their lunch boxes.  Thank you for supporting this initiative!