Despite the short school week, our last 3 days have been full of activities! In Math, we have been continuing our unit on measurement but have moved on from length and surface area to looking at capacity and mass. Mme Van Sickle brought in a bunch of different objects to fill with water and we had fun trying to hypothesize which items would hold the most. We measured the water in mL to test our hypotheses and cheered very enthusiastically whenever we guessed correctly! We also got to use classroom scales to weigh and compare various objects from around the classroom. One of the highlights of the week was having the Science Alive group come to teach us all about our beautiful province of British Columbia! We learned about our local animals and their habitats, and what animal and plant fossils look like. We even got to make some fossils of our own to bring home! We also got to use our imaginations to invent our own animals that live in the tundra, keeping in mind all of the adaptations they would need to survive in the frigid weather. Some of us were very clever and took out books and atlases to help us with our animal-creations. The Science Alive group also taught us how to distinguish between several of our most popular local trees. We got to practice using something called a "dichotomous key" to identify various features of the trees in order to determine what kind they were. We even got to paint cedar, hemlock and douglas fir branches to make art. Mme Van Sickle was very impressed when we went to Hoffman Park later and some of us announced while climbing in the trees, "Hey, isn't this a cedar tree?!" (Our teacher gets very excited when we retain information that we learned! She's a little nerdy that way, but we still love her.) ;-) She even whipped out a dichotomous key so that we could check over the features, ourselves, to confirm our hypothesis. Today was another special afternoon with the city's "Touch a Truck" event. We went to Spirit Square and got to touch, sit in, and stand on various city worker trucks. It all fit very well with our Social Studies unit on our community.
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