It was a short week, but still packed with activities! Madame may have stretched us to our limits... ...but we were good sports, as always! Our focus on shapes in Math brought us to sorting and categorizing them based on their different attributes. First we practiced pulling out all of the shapes that looked the same, and then moved on to creating different sorting "rules" - by colour, by number of sides or points, etc. We also learned that we could get really creative and use the shapes to make all kinds of designs. We even figured out that if we put two trapezoids together, it made a hexagon! We also learned about the difference between 2D and 3D shapes and had so much fun going on a 2D shape scavenger hunt around the classroom! We had fun with outdoor counting, as well, creating 10-frames and tallies out of natural materials. But Science this week was a blast... literally. Madame made 3 ghosts out of film canisters and we hypothesized about which ghost would fly the highest when we mixed water inside with an alka seltzer tablet - would it be the hot water, the cold water, or the warm water? One great hypothesis was that it would be the hot water that would work the best because hot air balloons fly but nobody has ever heard of a cold air balloon! It was time to put it to the test! iAlexandrea held the umbrella for us as a measurement comparison and as it turns out, the warm water was the secret to success! Our ghost nearly shot up to the roof! We realized that the hot water probably dissolved the alka seltzer too fast, just like how a bath bomb dissolves in water. It didn't have enough time to create a lot of bubbles. The cold water didn't dissolve the pill completely. But the warm water dissolved the pill slowly, creating lots of bubbly pressure that EXPLODED! Just for fun the next day, we tried continuing with our explosions by doing a Mentos and Coke experiment. But the stores had been all out of Original Mentos and apparently Mint Mentos doesn't work as well. Madame seemed disappointed but we were still excited with the small geysers that erupted! And pro tip: Diet Coke works better than Regular Coke. In other news, we've been enjoying doing some daily silent reading - sometimes indoors and sometimes out. Most of us can't read the words yet, but we enjoy "reading" the pictures and going on treasure hunts for the sounds we've been learning during the week. We've also begun working on some pumpkin glue resist art, using shading and colour blending techniques with pastels. More to come on this next week! The weather has been amazing so we couldn't resist the opportunity for bug hunts, monster truck races down the slide, and other outdoor investigations. Madame was also very happy this week to find out that even students' pets have been getting involved in learning our calming strategies... Great job, kitty! Also, a shout out to Alexandrea and Catherine who, even while on vacation in Tofino, still managed to complete their weekly literacy work!
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