On Tuesday, we went to TELUS Spark. It is such an amazing place to go and it has the coolest things. There was a bed of nails, a toilet bowl drinking fountain, and these round things that when you would shine a spotlight on them, they would play music! WE LOVE SCIENCE! Along with all these cool displays, we got to participate in a magnet program. We did 6 different activities with magnets. 1. Played with a magnet pendulum: we tried putting different sizes of magnets around a tray to see what would happen to the pendulum. We found that we could make it swing. 2. A maze: we had one magnet inside the PVC pipe and one on the outside of the pipe. We tried to move the magnet on the inside of the pipe. 3. Played a board game: we split the magnets up into equal groups. The goal of the game was to put all magnets on the board at the same time without the magnets attracting or touching. If they did, we had to start all over again. If you won, the board got smaller. Which was WAY harder! 4. In this activity, there were metal filings inside two pieces of glass and we had magnets on the outside. Some of us tried to figure out how the metal filings would go up. We learned that some magnets are strong enough to go through plastic and glass. Some of us tried to ‘steal’ the filings from each other! 5. Inside the mineral oil was inky stuff that had metal filings in it. I found that I could create a big ball and then some of the ink would fall off. When the magnet had a lot of ink, it would have these spiky looking things on the outside. So cool! 6. Magnet exploration: At this table we got to explore different types of magnets and sizes of magnets to see what would happen. During the program, we learned so many things from Monica. We learned that: - Magnets don’t stick to all metals and bigger magnets are not always stronger than smaller magnets.
Curriculum Corner:
This week in math and literacy, we focused on: Math: we continued to discusses and learn about early place value. We are starting to build numbers, recognizing the tens place and the ones place. We also were talking about odd number and even numbers. Some if the students really enjoyed the “Who am I” number riddles. Literacy: we continued to read in our guided reading groups, working on predictions, connections and comprehension. In writing, we continued to learn about spelling patterns, working on using our personal word wall, looked at word choice when writing a story and started to create “story tickets” to help generate our ideas.
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February 2017
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