Special Visitors

On Friday we had two very special visitors in our classroom. This one is Hank, a blind hawk who is in rehabilitation with Wild and Cared Free Wildlife Rehabilitation. One of the students’ mom is a volunteer with this organization and was able to answer some of the many questions the animals elicited from the students. As you can see, we even got to touch the magnificent bird.

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Robots!

This week we we’ve been learning about programming and robots. We tried writing programming instructions for each other and then played a programming game called Kodable.

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Today, we got to try programming a real robot.

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Lego Challenges

This past week we participated in four Lego Challenges.

The first challenge was for students to make their name with Lego. There were lots of ways the students chose to do this. You can see all of their tweeted names here.

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The second challenge was to create the largest Lego boat possible that would float and not tip over. Testing the boats was the BEST part of this challenge. Again, there are pictures and tweets from all of the students about their creation here.

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The next day, Lego Challenge 3 was to design part of the ideal playground. Look closely and you’ll see a urinal. What would a playground be without it?

20150627-192140.jpgLego Challenge 4 was to design something using only one colour of blocks. The variety was impressive.

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Lots of fun, cooperation and hands on learning.

Our KIBO

We are currently doing a robot unit which includes robots in all curricular areas. Along with it, we are figuring out all the interesting things our KIBO robot can do. There’s lots of enthusiasm using this great learning tool!

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The Science Centre Visits Us

We didn’t have to go to the Science Centre…they came to see us! We got to see and do lots of cool science things, including using our sense of taste,

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using our sense of smell

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and finding out how the world looks to animals.

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Did you know that an elephant has to look sideways to see what is in front of it? Or that a dog sees Colours differently than we do?

Releasing the Butterflies

For ten days we watched our caterpillars grow and grow. We watched them each make a chrysalis and then we waited ten more days. Finally we watched them emerge–as butterflies! Today we let the butterflies go in the schoolyard. A few lucky students had a butterfly land near them.

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Baby Pheasants

After weeks of faithfully turning the pheasant eggs in our classroom, the long anticipated hatch finally began to happen. On Thursday we saw that two eggs had a tiny peck hole and when the students arrived on Friday, they were greeted by three chicks that had been born the night before. While it was interesting to inspect the not yet hatched eggs and the empty egg shells, the high point of the day was definitely watching and holding the new babies.

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