To share a few facts about the beautiful province we live in, we added a QR code to the postcards that links to a brief “About BC” section on our class blog. 24 postcards have been popped in the mail. 9 more to go!
Our class signed up to be a part of the Global Read Aloud Amal Unbound postcard exchange, so we’ve been busy drafting postcards to send off to students in classrooms throughout the United States and Canada. We got to choose what to write about – our favourite part of the book, a connection we made or something we’re curious about – and after we finished our draft, we wrote on the postcards. We did a great job clearly sharing our ideas about the novel in the limited space on the card! To share a few facts about the beautiful province we live in, we added a QR code to the postcards that links to a brief “About BC” section on our class blog. 24 postcards have been popped in the mail. 9 more to go! We’ve continued with the Science Big Idea How Living Things Sense & Respond to Their Environment with some science experiments that involve our senses. We’re all familiar with our five senses, but we didn’t realize how much they actually work together sending signals to our brain (even when we’re sleeping!). It’s the brain’s job to interpret and then respond to these signals. To see this in action, we did a few experiments that used only one sense. Our first experiment challenged our sense of smell – we needed to identify substances (ketchup, dish soap and coffee grounds) without seeing them. Our second experiment had us tasting and identifying objects (apples, pears and potato) with our eyes shut and our noses plugged. Both were harder than we expected! They clearly showed us that our senses work together to let our brain know what’s going on around us. We lucked out with the sunny weather for our afternoon nature walk to our local park. When we arrived at the park, our task was to find our tree and to note any changes that we observed since last week’s visit. We were surprised how many leaves had dropped from our tree in only a week! We also noticed fewer birds and insects, but more moss on the trees. Clearly some birds have flown south for the winter, but where were the other birds? Busy building nests? And are the spiders hiding with their egg sac? We predict that by next week’s visit, all the leaves will have fallen. Stay tuned! Halloween is right around the corner and our little kindergarten buddies were learning all about pumpkins. They did a great job measuring the height and weight of their pumpkin, but they needed a bit of our help with carving. Before getting started, our little buddy came up with a design. We were impressed by how creative they were! We helped them sketch the design – on paper and then on the pumpkin – and then it was time to begin carving! We were great leaders – very patient and very helpful. We’re looking forward to having some Halloween fun of our own next week :) Another great week of learning in divisions 6 & 7.
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