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Could We Have a Little Light Please?

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 Little Canada, A Little Fun And A Little Learnin’ All In One!

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!

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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

  1. 2 plastic containers (one for either side of the “net”) that holes can be poked into (I suggest Odwalla juice).  Must have lids.
  2. Pennies, marbles, sand or rocks to weight the plastic containers.
  3. Wood dowel to make a “net” to reach across your table.
  4. Screw driver or scissors to poke hole in plastic container.
  5. 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!

Merry Christmas From The Hancocks

Merry Christmas From The Hancocks

coldnessHello everyone! Now that the craziness of the end of school for 2010 has passed by I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful support this last term and for the lovely gifts you were so generous in giving. Bob especially loved the food items and we had to keep telling him to not eat any more brownie squares! All the gifts were wonderful and we have been enjoying them as we relax and spend tie with our families. We are in Edmonton right now where the day is beautiful and the temperature is a balmy -20. Siena doesn’t quite know what to make of it. She likes the snow but not the coldness so much.

Deanne, Siena, Liam and I would like to wish all your family a wonderful and safe Christmas and that you would find the break to be a refreshing of the spirits with the anticipation of the year ahead filling you with a sense of hope for what lies ahead.

I always like to include this commentary by Ben Stein as I think it speaks perfectly to the season and the craziness in which the real message needs to fight through to be heard.

I keep seeing in the newspapers that it might not be a “good” Christmas because while visits to stores are up, purchases per visit are down very slightly.

There is also some fear that it might not be a “good” holiday season because fears about the housing correction will scare shoppers into keeping their wallets zipped.

I’m fascinated by this, because I have looked through a Concordance of the Old and New Testaments and I do not find the word “shopping” even once.

I’m not sure when the idea got to be dominant that a “good” Christmas was about total spending, but here respectfully are some alternative suggestions:

Maybe a good Christmas for this most blessed of nations would be when we as a nation and as communities made sure the homeless had a warm, safe place to sleep.

Maybe a good Christmas would not be about buying your kids the latest gizmo for listening to obscene lyrics, but about teaching them that if they are fortunate enough to have extra time or extra money, they can help out at the old age home or at the local animal shelter.

Maybe a good time would not be buying your parents sweaters they will never use, but taking a trip to see them and telling them how much you appreciate that they spent the heart of their lives taking care of you, feeding you, teaching you, putting a roof over your head, warming you with their love and concern.

Maybe the best time of all would be telling your husband or your wife that you would be lost without him or her and that you’re sorry for the selfish things you did that year, and you’ll be better next year.

Christmas and Hanukah presents rarely fit and rarely are to your taste. They sit in your closet and collect dust forever.

But gifts in this special, sacred time of love and caring to your family, your friends, and your neighborhood – those are never forgotten. They bring peace of mind for years.

And I seem to recall from my vanished youth that this is the holiday of the prince of peace, not the queen of diamonds.

Here are a couple of fun things for you as we zoom towards Christmas.

News, Spelling, and Videos, Oh My!

News, Spelling, and Videos, Oh My!

smb_singing_glowstarIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Well . . . not really but I was in a singing mood. We have a busy week ahead of us.

Friday is a half day with elementary dismissed at 12:15.

Wednesday is Ski Registration in the Church Foyer. I am looking for someone to help out with that. If you are interested, we will be going from 3:10 – 3:45. Any help would be appreciated.

We will be having a short Science quiz on Wednesday. The quiz will cover the following items:

1. How clouds are made – evaporated air rises up and is cooled as it goes higher into the atmosphere. The cooled air turns back into clouds and water vapour which then comes down as precipitation. We saw this when we took boiling water and placed it in a jar and put ice cubes on the top.

2. Types of clouds:

  • Cumulus – fluffy clouds that can be seen on a nice day. However, when they get dark and turn into cumulonimbus, they bring rain and storms.
  • Cirrus – thin wispy clouds high in the sky that appear on nice days.
  • Stratus – low fog found close to the ground.

3. Properties of Air

  • Air has weight
  • Air has force
  • Hot air rises, cold air sinks
  • Air takes up space
  • Air takes the shape of its container
  • Air has volume – The students have trouble with this one. It basically mean how much air is inside something just like how much milk can fit in a carton. Some containers can hold more air than others.
  • Air exerts pressure – Air doesn’t like to be trapped. When you pop a balloon, air comes out. When you let go of the balloon, if the hole is opened, all the air will come out. It won’t stay inside.
  • Hot air expands, cold air contracts – When we put the balloon in the freezer, it shrunk because the air molecules came closer together. Once it was outside the freezer, it started to get bigger again because the air molecules spread further apart.

Here is the spelling for this week with the Spelling City links:

L-5

N-5

Here are the links to Spelling City:

L5 N5

Finally, here is a video that I introduced the students to today. It is a really neat video showing the brain of a mouse from the skull all the way down to the creation of new neurons. It is absolutely fascinating. We have talked alot this year about creating and strengthening our neurons by being creative and thinking outside the box. Speaking of which, Science challenges are due tomorrow!

A Couple of Fun Things For You!

A Couple of Fun Things For You!

I thought I would start the week off with a couple of fun things for you! A puzzle and a video. The video is a real thing that happened in one of the world’s largest subways. It must have been pretty cool and everyone, especially the passengers, were very surprised! Lots of fun! Don’t you wish you had been there? I also embedded a winterish game for you to enjoy!


Cool Graphics and a Fun Video For You

Cool Graphics and a Fun Video For You

So… In my recent travels around the internet these last few days I came across a couple of fun things to share with you to get you back into the whole school thing gently.

First of all, I found these cool graphics from a site called, “Information is Beautiful”. The site basically takes information and statistics and puts them into neat graphics to make them more interesting and useful for readers. The ones today showed some interesting ways to see our world in a different context. Many times globes, maps and other mapping devices don’t give us a very accurate view of our world. We look at the map and think that our country is the same size as a place like, say, Greenland or that we are not much smaller than Africa. However, you can see with the pictures below that that is not quite the case. Take a look!

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Here is a fun Star Wars video I found made entirely out of paper! Cool! It actually goes very well with the Christmas Art students are working on right now!

And Now For Something Completely Different!

And Now For Something Completely Different!

It’s been awhile since we have had something fun on the blog and I found something really funny to share with you but first . . .

One of my fantastic students did something that I thought was really cool and I wanted to share it with you. As you may or may not know, at the end of every day, I play Rock, Paper, Scissors with my students. Unbeknown to me, Spencer, one of my totally cool and awesome students, has been graphing the results of our competitions! He brought it in to show me and I think it is one of the coolest things I have seen. How cool to see Math applied to real life things.  He even sorted by what was used each time by each of us. It was just perfect and I wanted to share his graph with you. I took the photo awhile ago but here it is. I’m probably winning by a lot now since the photo was taken . . .:) I think it is really amazing!

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I am in need of 12 glass jars for Science. If anyone would be willing to lend us some glass jars for about a week, that would be great. You will get them back at the end of the lesson (unbroken, of course!).

I found this video yesterday and I thought it was one of the funniest videos that I have seen in awhile. So here it is. Enjoy and we’ll see you tomorrow!

Great Video Just Like I Promised!!!!

Great Video Just Like I Promised!!!!

The other day I was looking through some of my favorite websites when I found this video. My wife and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. How much time do you think it took to do this? Just amazing! I wonder if you children even remember the game Tetris! Enjoy and don’t forget to check out the information about Library and Gym in the post below or on the calender!

New Simon’s Cat

New Simon’s Cat

Here, on my blog, I like to highlight funny videos that tickle my funny bone. One of my favorites is the Simon’s Cat series. Today the author unleashed a new one.

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