We got to experience more First Nations games on Monday, this time outside in the beautiful sunshine. One of the elders from the Katzie reserve in Pitt Meadows helped to lead the games and a number of the PME student leaders were also from the reserve. The kids had a fabulous time trying out the different stations and were still talking about it late this week. Our theme in Science this week was "la lumière" (light). We learned about luminous and non-luminous objects, as well as the terms "transparent" and "opaque" (spelled the same in French as in English). We really enjoyed looking around the classroom to try to find different things that fit into those categories! But the best part was playing with the flashlights! We were each given one to play with, along with coloured cellophane, prisms, mirrors, and more. We had so much fun walking around the classroom in the dim light, using our flashlights to make different colours on the walls, creating shadows and rainbows, etc. And we discovered something totally crazy - when we combined the light of the primary colours (red, green and blue), it turned white! Our hypothesis was that mixing the three colours of light would produce a new colour, just like it does when we mix paint. But we quickly learned that it doesn't work the same way with light. We also loved seeing how we could make the light beams bounce off of a mirror and land on something opposite from where the flashlight was pointed. In the forest this week, we came up with a great game on our own of "find the diamond". We dug for diamonds, stole diamonds from each other's bases, and played so well together that Mme Van Sickle forgot to even watch the time! We were almost late getting back.
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