“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
- Albert Einstein IMPORTANT INFORMATION Food Band Collection We are still looking for donations for the Food Drive. Dec. 4 – 15 Mayor’s Xmas Food Drive This year will be the 29th annual food drive to support the Calgary Food Bank. Scholastic Book Orders Scholastic Book Orders are due on November 16th. IMPORTANT DATES November 16: November Scholastic Book Order Due November 17: PD Day - No School November 22: Fun Lunch (Opa!) November 29: Elder Shirley Hill OUR DAY 48 days under our belt, 132 days to go! What a day! Experiments! Wee drawings! Predictions! Rain! Flooding! Erosion! We have been growing beautiful spring-green grass for our erosion science experiment. Students wrote predictions of what they think will happen when it rains on our hill of dirt and our hill of dirt with grass. They sketched the two pans, and then The big sponge in the sky opened up. We made many discoveries, such as the dirt under the grass was soaking wet before the rain; the dirt pile was bone-dry under less then 0.5 cm of rain coming down; dirt, pebbles, and rocks travel down with the rain. We discussed how these findings impact our lives, resources, and jobs. We related the erosion of the dirt pile to the erosion of rocks. We talked about how choices made today impact our lives 40 years later. Folks, I have to tell you, it is something special when every single child is thinking about what they see and are hearing. As a result, we have all decided we would like a Day of Discussions. Students are also recreating the rock cycle in their visual journals. They have looked at many different rock cycle infographics, compared rocks, reenacted the cycle, and learned the vocabulary. Now they will cement the small sediments of information, amalgamate their knowledge, so the heat and pressure of not knowing extrudes out, only to be replace with a metamorphic change in thinking. A rock solid day of learning. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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