The festive spirit continued this week with a pancake breakfast, school spirit pyjama day and photos with Santa! We were introduced to Ozobots this week - miniature robots that are loads of fun!! Ozobots travel along a pathway and follow special colour sequences that they encounter along the way. The colour sequences are codes that the Ozobot can understand…so when it sees blue green red, for example, it will go its fastest speed for 3 seconds while flashing green and white before returning to its cruising speed. We loved using codes while mapping out paths for the Ozobots to follow. It was tricky at first…our lines were too thin and our colour codes weren’t the same size, but we learned so much simply by making mistakes. We've tested our paths and have shared, revised and retested. It’s been great to see the excitement and the perseverance! Perhaps the perseverance that we’ve shown while working with the Ozobots has come from what we’ve learned about Growth Mindset - that we can all learn and improve with time and effort and that our talents and abilities are not something we’re born with. This week’s Growth Mindset focus was the brain. We read Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak – a picture book that combines facts (like the different parts of the brain and their jobs) with important messages about our ability to stretch and grow our brains. We were fascinated to find out that making mistakes is one of the best ways our brain learns and grows and that if we don’t take risks, we won’t stretch our brain. As soon as we heard that, we all wanted to share times where we’ve struggled learning something new, and where perseverance helped our brain grow! We also read Metis Christmas Mittens by Leah Marie Dorion and learned about the Metis tradition of making mittens for loved ones. Those mittens warm the hands and the heart :). Check out the mittens we made using oil pastels.
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