Mackenzie and Kinley showing their Art Smarts

First Ms. Klaudt showed us some northern lights on the computer. She wanted us to look at the brightness and the fact that they were not straight lines but wavey lines. Then we picked a design from  one of her pictures, using chalk we picked our colors. We drew on the paper making sure that the design moved our eyes across the page. We used our fingers to smudge the lines to create the shadowy affect. We then drew our birds. She reminded us that when we put on a beak the bird will look different, so make sure you pick a beak that fits your bird. We looked at books to make sure that the birds looked realistic.We then cut out our birds, then a strip of paper that looks like a wire (powerlines). We put the lines and the birds on the paper- made sure they were where we wanted them and then glued them on. (we were to make sure that we did not put our birds all in one spot, spread them out so our eyes would move across the page)
The part we liked the best was the chalk. We liked to smudge our lines to make whatever design we wanted.

What is a molecule?

Luca in grade 2 started a science experiment today about molecules.
First Ms. Klaudt turned on the kettle and got it just about boiling. Then we got to go up and see that the molecules were jumping. They were jumping around because they were hot. Ms. Klaudt had a plate  of ice that she put over the kettle. The steam went around it and the then over it. The steam stuck to the bottom of the plate of ice- started with tiny spots but then got bigger. Then she turned the kettle off and we saw that there was only a tiny bit of steam. That meant that the water was getting colder and the molecules stopped jumping.

After that we went to our groups and did a place mat about what we saw. We could use words or draw pictures of our ideas.

Biodegradability??

Biodegradable is the topic- grade 3/4- By Tessa Mckenzie
What we did is- we collect a coffee filter, a string,an apple core,bread,plastic bag, metal foil . We put them in a bucket of dirt and made sure they were covered.We check up on them once a month to see if they are decompossing. We were put into groups and brainstormed (think pair shared)what would decompose. My groups prediction was that the apple core would decompose
So far the only ones that are changing (decompossing) are bread and the apple core. I do not think that anything else is decomposing because it did not change so far. Because we narrowed down the bread and the apple core those are the two finalists.

We will check in later to see the final results.

Recycled Pens

Today Andrew in grade 5 made recycled pens. The first step was to put the spring on the cartridge then put the cartridge and the springer into the body of the pen. Then we put the silver ring on the body which holds the cartridge. then we screw the upper body of the pen onto the bottom.  The body is made out of recycled plastic the spring is made out of recyled metal. This fits into our business unit. We made these as an assembly line. The assembly line gets more work done and it is quicker to get stuff out for production. This kind of work is easier than working by yourself because you only need to know one thing at a time.

Grade 5/6 water color - Art Smart

Tanisha from Grade 6.
 I created this picture without looking at the page. Ms. Klaudt put a plastic flower in front of us and we had draw it and then paint it with water colors. The hardest part was drawing it because you could not look at the paper just at the flower. I liked this project  because it was water color.  I like to paint and this is painting.

The Learning that Nolan is most proud of today

Nolan from Grade 1 says that he his most proud of the work he did today- Hay Diddle Diddle. We got to show a thumbs up if we liked the story and I got to draw the character that I liked. The character was the cat.I liked him because he sounded funny. I liked our guest teacher- Ms. McDowell because she tells me that I can do the work because she knows I can do it.

Student Led Conferences

Deneille from grade two says that she like Student Led Conferences because I am going to show mommy how to get onto the weather on the computer, a fishbone about rain and about doubles in math. I am going to show mommy how many drops of water can fit on a penny.

Things I didn't know before today.

We are just trying the blog out.