We started our week with a very special art project for our dads! Shhhhh!! Our special presenter, Debbie, taught us how to make some very cool, top secret creations out of little bits of glass! She had loads of pre-cut pieces for us, but also let us use some special snippers to cut the glass even smaller if we wanted. We had so much fun with this that we were all on our best behaviour! We also had a special treat this week and got to be the audience for Mme Belson's Grade 2/3 French Immersion class while they performed some plays for us! In Math this week, we looked at the concept of capacity. How much can one water glass hold compared to another? We made some predictions. Which one would hold the MOST water?...the tall and skinny, the medium, or the small and wide? We were quite surprised to learn that all of the glasses held very close to the same amount of water, but the medium and the tall tied for holding the MOST. We had fun this week reading about volcanoes from a couple of books from the "Je lis" website that we all have access to for home reading (and will continue to be able to access over the summer): https://jelis.rkpublishing.com/student/ In one of the stories, a little boy named Alex makes a sand castle volcano. We all asked Madame, "Can we do that, too??!" And Madame said, "Yes!" We practiced lots of great vocabulary through this process - "hole", "jar", "hill", "volcano", and how to write out the steps of creating something. With our sand volcanoes, Madame didn't want to use baking soda and vinegar because she didn't want to make the sand stink for everyone else. Instead, we used alka seltzer tablets that fully dissolved. Madame wasn't even sure if it would work and called it an "experiment". In the end, it bubbled a lot but didn't actually erupt. So clearly, we needed to do a proper eruption the next day with a paper maché volcano. Our final big adventure of the week was our "Wilderness Survival" outing to the forest. Before we left, we drew up some plans of what kinds of materials we were going to use and how we were going to work together to create our structure. Many of us have incredible imaginations and figured we could put in two storeys, a door on hinges, a zipline, and various kitchen cabinetry. Madame brought us back to reality a bit and had us brainstorm how we could actually get our tarps to hang high enough in the air for us to go underneath them. In the end, we came up with some workable ideas that served as our guide when we got to Hoffman. The big day came and we set out in the pouring rain. Many of us were ill-prepared for the "atmostpheric river" that reared its ugly head on Thursday afternoon, but it was nothing that a little plastic and some creativity couldn't solve! In fact, many of us liked the idea of the plastic bag ponchos so much that we wanted one, too, despite having all our rain gear! Before we left, we read a book about playing in the rain and how much fun it can be! We were all very pumped for the trip and for the most part, didn't seem to mind the weather at all. Thank you to Kristen for some of these photos! One of our favourite parts about the whole trip was when we got to forage for salmon berries and bushwhack during our hunt. We ended up coming to a small clearing were we discovered a massive over-turned tree with all of its exposed roots. We were so fascinated with it that many of us chose to reflect about it in our journals the next day. Extra photos...
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