IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We Club Info! The Prince of Wales We Club is holding a fundraiser for Unicef this week. They have 2 activities planned, and to participate is by donation.
Dead Battery Drop Off The Prince of Wales We Club is asking for dead battery donations. Did you know that zinc deficiency in our diet can have a huge impact on brain and body growth? One battery has enough zinc to be processed into vitamin pills for 6 children! Send any non-leaking batteries down. They are collecting them until end of May. IMPORTANT DATES May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 21: Victoria Day (school closed) May 25: Volunteer Tea OUR DAY 150 days down, 30 days left. What a beautiful day for a walk to the ridge to sit with Elder Shirley. She started off our time with a smudge. She talked about the importance of Mother Earth, and how everything we need comes from the Earth. She talked about the importance of water in our lives, and she also shared some Blackfoot words with us. The students did some drawings in their journals about the things we see. We also learned about the butterfly life cycle with caterpillars! Yes, the Grade 3s have Painted Lady caterpillars that will soon go into their chrysalis stage. We are documenting their growth in our journals. The students were able to explain that butterflies have a complete metamorphosis and have a complex life cycle. Ask your child what these mean. The afternoon was all about beams! Accordion, box girder, and rectangular beams. We will be testing them out tomorrow. Oh! Evil Genius Lauf came out to play before our beam build. I gave the students each a pencil, and they had to copy a list of build items from the Smart Board, and they had 1 minute to do it. Why is this evil and genius, you ask? Well, some pencils were 2 inches long, others were dull, and some had no lead. One was even 2” long with no lead. She students complained off the bat, and wanted to sharpen their pencil. They were not allowed. (Where did those pencil sharpeners go?) When the minute was up, they had to talk in their small group, answering the following questions: How many items did they copy? (“None! I had no lead!” “Three, but it was hard because my lead ran out!” “None, because my pencil was too small.” “A lot, because y pencil was fine!”) Did they feel this activity was fair? Why or why not? (“No! I had no lead!” “No! Their pencil was too small!”) Here is the Evil and Genius part of that: this actually taught the students about a Fair Test in science. We discussed what variables are, what controls are, and what the one variable is. Ask you child about the difference. So, we are ready for our Fair Beam Test tomorrow! Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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