Friday, March 8th

On Friday during our language centres block, students will have the opportunity to select an activity of their choosing. They may bring electronic devices to class on this day should they wish to use them during this time.

Balloon rockets

Today the students investigated forces while constructing and "launching" balloon rockets.  Local scientist, John Wills, lent his expertise to help the students better understand forces and the laws of motion. They greatly enjoyed the activity and were very successful.

Grade 4 speeches

Congratulations to Caelan who represented the grade 4 students for speeches in the auditorium yesterday.  We all know a little more about potatoes now!

Grade 3 Speeches

Congratulations to Sam who will be representing the grade 3's from MCS at the annual speech competition held at the Legion.  Great job Sam and good luck!

Let's Talk Day

In honor of Bell Let's Talk Day to support mental health issues, the students in our class had a long discussion about factors that cause children to be stressed.  We discussed the causes of stress in children across Canada and ways that they can help improve their stress levels.  This included talking to family, friends, and teachers about things that are making them feel anxious, sad or stressed.  The students were very candid during the discussion, and I think a number of children were relieved to hear that there are other children feeling the same stresses as them.  Below are a couple of links that we referred to.  They are excellent resources for parents, students, and teachers.

http://letstalk.bell.ca/pdf/fact-sheets/cmha/kids-have-stress-too.pdf

http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/Kids/Home.aspx

Wacky Hair Day

Math

We have just completed our unit on Data Management. Students learned how to survey their fellow classmates and display that data on a variety of graphs.  We are now moving on to a unit in Geometry. Students will be looking at the properties of 2-D shapes and investigating angles.