Friday, 27 January 2017

 In art we used oil pastel to create mixed media art.  We washed over the oil pastels with watercolor paint mixed with water.








We practiced new strategies such as equal groups, arrays, mental math and repeated addition.

We started learning about ringette this week in gym with Mr. Collins, it was mega awesome.

Friday, 20 January 2017

It has been a very active time in room 12 and 14.

 
We created colour wheels and used them to create painted art. This was one of our activities that helped us remember that white light is made up of all the colours.





We also used the Lego and some wheels to make moving vehicles with motors.  We continue to create new Lego machines to start our own Lego Challenge.


We worked with our teams to create a car, and some of us were able to make it move, and for some groups this posed a real challenge.

We also noticed that there was a lot of students not using the recycling bins correctly.  Please remind each other to wash their recyclables and to sort them separate from garbage.


Here is an announcement from a concerned student...

Connections to nature this spring have been very strong.  We have worked on creating, growing and changing in areas of science and literacy....