"You really can't do much in a 3-day week." Challenge accepted. Yes, we did the regular literacy and math blah-dee-blah stuff... ![]() ...but it was also RAC Week. And Valentine's Week. And basically let's-cram-everything-into-3-days-while-we-also-hype-the-kids-up-on-sugar week. It was awesome. No really, it was. We started our Real Acts of Caring Week by singing "Four Hugs a Day" in French at the Seniors' Centre, and then passing out carnations to the seniors. Blakely said afterwards, "I felt happy because I was making other people's day be a bit better and a bit happier." On Tuesday, we were "Kindness Superheroes" and delivered homemade cards to a bunch of the teachers and office staff. They were so thrilled by the students' thoughtfulness! Mrs. MacKinnon told them that "they made her day!" We also did some baking on Tuesday to get ready for our cookie delivery the next day. On Wednesday, we got to deliver our cookies! At first we tried to deliver them to the police, but they weren't available when we arrived. Instead, we walked over to City Hall and gave them to the workers there. Lucky for us, the policemen returned just as we were about to walk back to the school so we got to see them after all! They didn't get cookies from us since we had already given the cookies away, but they got lots of hugs and "thank you"s. They were quite taken with the kids and told Madame to let them know any time if she would like them to come visit our class. We may take them up on that offer! They even gave us some special stickers when we left. Madame also challenged us at recess today to be extra kind to someone. Some of us held the door open for someone, others invited someone to play who was all by themselves, and still others helped a friend who had fallen or gotten hurt. We shared our stories by saying, "Je suis gentil parce que..." and telling about what we did that was kind. Madame talked to us about how it's easy to be kind to people that we LIKE... it's much harder to be kind to people that we DON'T like. And she shared a secret...shhhh!...sometimes there are even GROWN-UPS who can be annoying or mean. So even Madame struggles with this sometimes. But we are truly kindness superheroes when we make the effort to be kind to people that are not easy for us to like. We all agreed that being kind feels really good - both for us and for the person that we are being kind to! Oh... and today was our Valentine's Day celebration! A big "merci" for all of the special treats and cards! Madame couldn't resist the opportunity to tie in some Science with our Valentine's Day festivities. We made Valentine's lava lamps using oil, water, alka seltzer tablets and heart-shaped glitter. Our goal was to see what worked the best - using more oil in our lamps or less. We had different hypotheses about this and it was a great opportunity for us to learn about fractions - 1/4, 1/2, and 2/3. We noticed that even though we added the oil first, once we mixed the water in with it, the water all sank to the bottom, creating two layers. Madame told us that this is because water is heavier than oil. The atoms in water are much closer together than they are in oil. We pretended to be atoms and ran closer together to demonstrate water and further apart to demonstrate oil. When atoms are closer together, the liquid is heavier so it sinks to the bottom. We loved watching how the glitter, colour, and liquids bubbled and mixed when we put the alka seltzer tablets in the jars. Those of us who hypothesized that MORE oil would work better were correct. We recorded our hypotheses, our observations and our results. Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Family Day Weekend!
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