We had some fun creating mini explosions in Science this week! Mme Van Sickle had 3 "ghosts" (film canisters) with warm water in them. We decided to leave the first ghost with just the water in it, add a little bit of corn starch in the second ghost, and add a lot of corn starch in the third ghost. Madame showed us that she would be adding pieces of an alka seltzer tablet to each ghost and, as a class, we made a hypothesis that the ghosts would fly. Secretly, Madame thought that the ghost with only water in it wouldn't fly. But she was WRONG! As we were all standing there with the water ghost in front of us, Madame began to say, "So as you can see, the ghost with only water doesn't fly..." and THEN... it FLEW! Really high! Madame's hypothesis was wrong and our hypothesis was RIGHT! All 3 of the ghosts flew, but the one with a really thick liquid of corn starch didn't fly very high. We wrote down our hypotheses, recorded our observations, and wrote a sentence explaining the results. As a bonus, Madame let us try putting some Mentos into a Coke bottle for a similar explosion. In Math, we've transitioned to working on shapes. We are just at the beginning stages, getting to know the names of different shapes in French. Madame made up a ridiculous song, 90s-era-inspired, and we've been having shapes dance parties while we watch it. It moves FAST and there are a lot of words, but some of us are beginning to be able to sing parts of it. We've also just begun delving into the fascinating world of...PROBLEM SOLVING! We're learning how to highlight the important information (the numbers) in a sentence and how to make those numbers into an equation to solve for the answer. (Kindergarteners worked on a shapes colouring activity while the Grade 1s practiced this process). This week was also our first annual "Emergency Release Drill". A big thank you to all of the parents for being so accommodating and flexible. Things went really smoothly and it helped the school to figure out any kinks that need to be ironed out. It was an onerous but very necessary process. And we got lucky!...the rain stopped just in time for the drill! Most of us were already on our way home by the time it started up again. Bonus pics of classroom fun... (we've begun requesting that Madame take pictures of us so that our parents can see them):
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