February 4th

Did You Know…? The arms of an octopus can work and solve problems independently of its brain due to the many neurons it has.

Good evening,

The Grade 4 students have a Math test tomorrow! Don’t forget to review! Use your textbook, the blog, or your Mathletics account. Don’t forget to get a good night’s sleep so that you come to school relaxed and ready tomorrow.

In Health today, we did a little review of how our Mindfulness study has been going. I shared with students some of the successes that I felt we were having. Tomorrow students will be sharing successes with me. We are also going to be having some other teachers come and spend some time with our class to learn more about Mindfulness, which will be really exciting! Check out the new Headspace video we watched today; reminding us of why Mindfulness is so important:

In Science today, the Gr. 5 students worked together and with some found objects to construct their own switches. Students were challenged to create a switch out of manila paper, brass fasteners, and paperclips. Remember, anything that conducts electricity can be used to help create a closed circuit. Next class we will be challenging students even further by asking them to use tinfoil.

The Gr. 4 students reviewed rollers and started to think about wheels! Today we compared rollers and wheels with the following chart: