Family Treasures

The Cycle 2 class did a project on "Family Treasures". Each student was responsible for finding a family treasure to bring to school and share with their classmates. They were responsible for taking the photos of their treasures, and then writing up the story that went with their object. We then had a "Family Treasure Tea Party" to celebrate the end of our project. Please check out the smilebox to view our wonderful project.

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Carnival Day at Grosse Ile School

The students at Grosse Ile School had a carnival day on March 7th. Both elementary and highschool had a fun filled day organized with many activities. Elementary started the day off with a broomball tournament and other ball games at the outside rink. They then had a delicious lunch prepared for them at the school. After lunch there was an inside rally and outside relay races. The weather was beautiful and the students had a wonderful day.

Making Hydrophones

Do sound waves travel under water? That's what the Cycle 2 investigated yesterday during Science class. Each group had a hydrophone, which was a 2 litre pop bottle cut off at the base. They then put the pop bottle in a tub of water and each partner banged 2 rocks under the water to see if they could hear the noise of the rocks banging. They discovered that yes, sound waves do travel under water. Actually the noise was louder under water!

Christmas Card Project

The Cycle 2 class joined the "Christmas Card Project", which was another great project on the "Projects By Jen" website. Our class was grouped with 29 other classes from the United States, as well as in Canada. Then, each class had a make a snowman themed Christmas card and send it to the other project members in their group. They also had to include the number of boys and girls in their class, their teacher's name, average temperature for this time of year, etc. We are now beginning to get some wonderful looking Christmas cards in the mail. It is a very interesting project for any grade level. All students love to get mail!

Pumpkin Seed Project

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Quackers is going to California!

Quackers will leave shortly for another school visit! He will be going to a grade 3 class in Fresno, California. We have just skyped this class yeasterday and they are very excited that Quackers will be visiting their school. I am sure he will have a wonderful time.

Wind Turbines

We have been studying different types of energy in Science class. This week we talked about wind energy, and we certainly have lots of this type of energy on our islands! We then made wind turbines out of construction paper, stick pins and a pencil. Whose turbine was going to go the fastest???? We blew so much on our turbines that some of us started to get dizzy! We learned that the harder we blow, the faster our turbines went!