Eco Schools Media Project

Group Work,

By;Jordan Taylor.

 
Sometimes group working can be hard because everybody always has something to say yet everyone’s ideas are very important to share now everybody has their own opinion ,but that dosent mean that their not important just because you don’t like them.

Everyone’s different in their own unique way, but you can’t blame them because they were born that way

So... Please Try Your Best To Let Other’s Know  What It Means, Cause We’ re With You!

Jordan was asked to write about the difficulties of collaborating with others and doing group work.   Jordan’s writing was independent and unedited. She asked for help in finding the apostrophe for words indicating possession, ie everybody’s ideas. Next steps will include brainstorming concrete ways we can make group work a positive for everyone.

 Eco Schools Group Work

We began working on our Eco Schools media projects today. Students reviewed data regarding what we are already doing well at our school. We referred to our graph and could see that we are doing really well recycling and using both sides of the paper when we print or copy but that we need to remember off turn off computers and work harder to bring lunches that are litterless.

Today we brainstormed ideas and talked about whether we would like to make posters or create a short movie to get our Eco Schools campaign communicated around the school. Our next step will be to draft our planned projects. Stay tuned!

Science in the Classroom with "So Much Snow"

Today, we investigated different ways to melt ice and snow. We have been reading the book, So Much Snow, by Robert Munsch. Our favourite part is when Jasmine, the main character, gets so cold that she freezes into ice! Someone comes and tickles her chin and she begins to laugh so hard that the ice cracks and she begins to warm up :)
For our experiment, we made 3 pictures of the main character and placed each one into some water. We froze the water to make ice blocks and then collected the following: a hair dryer, salt and a tub of water. After rereading our book, we talked about our favourite ways to warm up and we made some predictions about what would melt the ice the fastest.  Cameron predicted salt would be fastest, Patrick and Bhagya predicted water would be the winner, while Tommy, Lucas, Jordan, Nathan and Owen thought the hair dryer would melt the ice the fastest.  We had a blast watching the melting and in the end, the water was the winner! We had a few friends suggest that drinking hot chocolate is a great way to warm up in winter.... we might just have to have a hot chocolate party in our classroom soon!

Welcome to our blog!!!

Welcome to our class blog! We are just beginning to think about what we will include and share. We spent Wednesday afternoon talking about and experimenting with the design as well as our title. There will be many changes coming soon, so be sure to check back often!