Science Materials Request
Students have begun their next two Science Units: Wheels and Levers in conjunction with Building Vehicles and Devices that Move. Next week, December 7 –11 students will participate in a collaborative,hands-on Science activity that will involve designing and building new and inventive toys. In order to make this activity a success I am hoping that parents will be able to donate the following items:
- Cardboard
- Styrofoam
- Cardboard and plastic tubes of various sizes
- Jars and Lids
- String, yarn, twine, ribbon, pipe cleaners
- Buttons
- Thread spools
- Fabric
- Plastic bags, zip locks
- Dowels
- Plastic containers
- Marbles
- Old CD’s
- Boxes of various sizes from food items – crackers, cereal, oatmeal, cookies, etc…
Thank-you in advance!
Drumming Schedule:
Tuesday December 1 – 8:35 – 9:25 am
Wednesday December 2 - 8:35 – 9:25 am
Drumming Performance - Thursday, December 3, 8:45 – 9:45 am
** Please try to arrive on time and enter the classroom quickly and quietly so that we can begin drumming as soon as possible.
December Book Orders due Wednesday – Please fill out order forms in pen. Cheques and online payments are preferred. Thank-you.
Today We:
- Participated in weekly goal setting activities.
- Had Monday Morning Meeting.
- Wrote detailed journal entries and worked through the editing process: Self ediing then peer editing.
- Finished our Canadian Shield landscape pictures using yarn and wool as our media. Some students have taken this home for homework.
- Read our class novel “The Incredible Journey” by Sheila Burnford.
- Finished the Jedi and Storm Trooper logic problem. Students shared their various strategies for solving the problem.
- Began a new logic problem involving moving various Star Wars characters across a bridge. Each character takes a certain amount of time to cross the bridge. The bridge can only hold 2 characters at a time, and the group only has 17 minutes to cross the bridge.
- Had our last day of Ringette in Gym.
- Had our second session of drumming
- Had a Science discussion about how the City of Calgary only has 30 years left of space in our landfills. We are going to pretend our classroom garbage can is 30 years worth of space. We are going to see how long we can go before it is totally full. We discussed things that we need to think about, and things that we can do to make the space last as long as possible. Students came up with:
- Start having wasteless snacks and lunches everyday, not just Thursdays
- Start making a craft bin of materials that can be saved instead of thrown away in our lunches like yogurt cups and bags, etc…
- Recycle paper towels, Kleenex, and paper
- Keep a daily tally of garbage thrown away to encourage ourselves to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
- Help pack our own lunches and help our parents shop to remind them to buy in bulk.
Student Quotes:
“I liked Science discussion because we got learn what we are doing next in Science.”
“I liked Gym because it was our last day of Ringette.”
“I liked Math because I finished the first Jedi problem.”
“I liked Math because I got to finish my problem.”
“I’m excited because we get to build cars.”
Question: What are the next 3 numbers: 85, 81, 77, 73, …