Bring You Back To School With A Smile!
Here is a hilarious video I am sure will bring a smile to your face! Enjoy and see you tomorrow. Don’t forget to check out the spelling information out below!
Ah! Le Memories Fantastique!
During the summer, I won’t be writing as much but will try to add some thoughts and fun things throughout the weeks. So keep checking back to see what I find!
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A Fun Ride!
During the summer, I won’t be writing as much but will try to add some thoughts and fun things throughout the weeks. So keep checking back to see what I find!
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Two Digit Division with Ease!
In Math, we have been continuing to look at the division of two digit numbers. Now that we understand how we can use place value to show why we place the numbers where they go in our division equations, it is time to take that learning and transfer it to the more traditional way of doing division.
The students all came home with a strip of math questions. There are only three of them on the strip and the students are expected to complete all three questions for tomorrow.
I have also completed a video using my nifty new app to help review the concept if the students need a reminder or if they just want to listen to my beautiful voice!
The Mystery of Oak Island
On an island off the coast of Nova Scotia, there is something hidden. Nobody know what or who hid it but something is there at the bottom of a pit that no one can get too. Stones with clues, log floors built every 10 metres, coconut fibres, traps that fill the pit with water from the ocean. . . these are just a few of the things to be found on Oak Island.
As part of our writing today, students took a look at the things that pirates stole or plundered. As we learned, most times it was not gold, silver and other precious metals. Most times it was plain ordinary things that the pirates needed. However, there are lots of stories, myths and legends concerning buried treasure and one of them is about a hole on a little island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Here is some info and videos. I also included a couple of links to find out more!
The Story of Oak Island
Oak Island – Wikipedia
Could We Have a Little Light Please?
Here we are at Monday with only four weeks (approx.) to go. Time is flying so quickly.
In Science, we have been working a lot on learning about the properties of light. We are getting close to end of this part of our unit and will be looking at the properties of sound next. In the next few days will be wrapping up is part of the unit and doing a little review before the mid-unit test. I will have the study guide on the blog before the test to help the students.
There are a lot of great videos and resources for students on light and their properties. Of course, Bill Nye always has some great videos which I have embedded below. I have also put a little quiz for fun. Can you answer all the questions correctly? Be careful, I’m checking your answers! 🙂
Finally, here is our favorite video! (Well, favorite for now. We seem to change fairly frequently!)
Here’s the quiz! Remember to try your hardest!
A Fun Video for Knight Time! Get it? Knight Time! Thank You!
Good evening!
Just for some fun, I found this video that I thought all of you would enjoy.
A Little Canada, A Little Fun And A Little Learnin’ All In One!
So I was sitting on the coach taking a breather from a long day of working and thought to myself, “I need to get more fun stuff on the blog!” So here goes:
Just a reminder that tomorrow is our one year anniversary of Canada winning the gold at the Olympic Men’s Hockey tournament. It was such an exciting day. Remember to wear your Canada, Olympic or hockey gear tomorrow. Here is the magical memory from our friends at Youtube!
So, if you are feeling in the Olympic spirit and want to get into some physical activity but don’t happen to have an Olympic speed skating track in your basement, here is an easy to make ping pong game. Just get a couple of juice containers like in the picture and a wooden stick. Cut some holes through the juice containers (maybe get your parents to help. You don’t want to get an Olympic size injury!) and insert the wooden sticks through the holes. Voila! There is your ping pong game. Now, all you need is some paddles and a ping pong ball. If anyone wants to make one for the class and bring it in to show us, that would be fantastic!
Our dining room table gets used a lot and not just for dining. We eat at our dining room table nightly but after the dishes get cleared, let the ping pong games begin! We turned our dining room table into a ping pong table. You can do it, too, by following these easy steps.
Ping Pong Table: DIY Project Materials Needed
- 2 plastic containers (one for either side of the “net”) that holes can be poked into (I suggest Odwalla juice). Must have lids.
- Pennies, marbles, sand or rocks to weight the plastic containers.
- Wood dowel to make a “net” to reach across your table.
- Screw driver or scissors to poke hole in plastic container.
- 2 ping pong paddles and balls.
First, empty, clean, and dry plastic containers.
Fill bottoms of each container with your material of choice. I used pennies. Put on lid. Consider gluing lids on if you have little ones around.
Cut holes with scissors, screw driver or other tool.
Push wood dowel through holes.
Finally, here is a little learning fun for you. Not related to anything in our science this year, but learning is still fun no matter what it is or where it comes from. And who says we have to learn just what we have been told to learn. So here is a neat video showing the distance our Moon actually is from us.
Did you catch it? There was some stuff about light which is what we are studying now! If you missed it, watch it again. First person to tell me that it takes light one second to get to Moon, gets a prize!
Enjoy and we’ll see you tomorrow!
Still Here!
It has been a wonderful week and the students have all been working very hard even with all the distractions with the weather and the bookfair competing for their attention.
In Language Arts, students have finished looking at the organization of a story and have started their second story with this focus. We have discussed and worked through what makes an exciting beginning, how we use things like time to organize our middle and how to end a story so that the reader is left with a feeling of satisfaction. Talking about it is one thing, though. Actually, doing it is another. So students have been practicing these things in their stories. Our latest story is an adventure with a leprechaun which goes with our recent St. Patrick’s day theme. With that story, we did a lot of brainstorming with ways to keep our leprechaun from getting away and we also did a lot of brainstorming of ways to start our story. We are working on and practicing these concepts with the goal of creating a storybook about the adventures of Bob, my evil twin brother. Each child will get to write about one of his adventures which we will then compile into a storybook. We have also connected with a group of classes around the States to create a story with each class taking a section of the story. We are the second class in the list so we are just waiting for the first class to write the beginning before we can add our piece.
The students were very excited for today! No. Not just because it is a half day. It was because the students had their first chance to go to the computer lab. Starting today, we will going to the computer lab on Fridays after first recess. Students will be doing a variety of activities including writing stories, doing art, working with maps and other fun activities. It was really fun and the students did a fantastic job of listening and watching for what they needed to do. I had already worked with a group of “helpers” who had already practiced the techniques for logging on, etc so that when we did go to the lab, they were able to help out those students who were having problems. They did a fantastic and were extremely helpful!!! We also used a new website (start.io/mrhancock) as a way for students to quickly find the resources they need without having to worry about typing in long addresses or searching for websites. It was great fun.
What do you think of when someone says properties of matter to you? If you said, “What’s the matter?” then you need to swing by our classroom at Science time! Students have been learning about the properties of matter as part of our Science unit. If you don’t recall, matter comes in three different forms: solid, liquid and gas. So far we have been looking at different types of liquids and how they react when they mix. We will be doing lots of experiments in this unit and learning lots of things. Here is a cute video to get you up to speed on your properties of matter.
Spelling List For The Week And A Surprise
Well, it is one week closer to our due date (our baby is due on the 23rd!) and nothing yet. The excitement is mounting!!
We are going to do one more Review List before taking a break to work on some of the rules for spelling in our Learning Logs. Here is the spelling list for this week:
Don’t forget to do our Spelling City with lots of fun games and a test you can take to help you practice. You can also bring in your completed test for an extra mark on the spelling test on Friday!
It has been a little while since I uploaded something fun on the blog. So as a fun surprise, here is a new video for you. It is really neat how they built the contraption to use in the video.