April Already!

It is hard to believe that there are only three months left in this school year! Every year I am amazed by how time flies! March was a ridiculously busy month! There was so much going on! I managed to email parents but didn't get the blog updated...well that's actually only half true...I had worked on a post for over two hours that was loaded with photos and something glitched and I lost EVERYTHING! My fingers and toes are crossed that that doesn't happen again!

A definite highlight of March was our Hot Dogs for Humpty sale! I hope that you all were able to get a copy of the Devon Dispatch to see the story about us! It is still up online if you missed it! This was such an amazing experience for our class! They took a leadership role in our school community, organized and helped with the collecting of orders, counting of money and adding up our grand total that was raised! It was so neat to see how eager they were through each step of the process and I couldn't be more proud of them!

Another highlight from March was the bridge building workshop and celebrating Tunisia Day! Unfortunately, I was busy with the hot dog sale so I was unable to get any photos of the bridge building workshop but the students came back completely pumped about starting our new science unit! Tunisia Day was fantastic! The students enjoyed tasting the food (couscous, flatbread with olive oil, baklava and dates), playing Mancala, weaving and creating a mosaic piece of art! A HUGE thank you goes out to all of our parent volunteers that helped run each station! 

We also started our Survivor Challenge Unit in Science! Students have been put into tribes and will work together to test a variety of building materials and methods. Students put on their tribal colours (bandanna) at the start of each class and follow tribal rules to work as a successful team!

Introducing...

The Fire Bandit Tribe

The Savage Tribe

The Dragoness Tribe

The Black Bandit Tribe

The teams have completed two challenges so far and have been focusing on the scientific process and creating a fair test. They know that:

• only one variable can be changed in each experiment. 
• they need to make a hypothesis before starting the experiment.
• they need to accurately record the data that they have collected during the multiple trials of the experiment. 
• they need to come to a conclusion to either prove or correct their hypothesis.

Add to this excitement, an assembly performance, the girl's floor hockey tournament, the Family Dance, starting the multiplication unit in math and starting an amazing new book during read alouds...phew no wonder time has flown by!