Acts For Antarctica

The Cycle 2 students have joined up with the "Acts for Antarctica" project. This is youth-led campaign for both elementary and high school students which entails learning about the polar regions and undertaking acts to fight for the preservation of our planet. Our class decided that we would keep track of the different acts we did for one week that would help to preserve our planet. The acts that our class completed were: recycling, using less water when showering, turning off lights when not in use, carpooling, walking, candle lit meals...and the list goes on. We also had a Skype call with a young student who actually had the opportunity to visit Antarctica for a special student project (Students on Ice). She explained what her project involved and also answered many questions we had regarding Antarctica.

Engineering Club

The Cycle 2 Class was given the wonderful opportunity of joining an "Engineering Club". This club was made possibly through special funding with GPS (Groupe Persererance Scolaire) and set up by the school's CLC coordinator Nancy Clark. This club takes place on a weekly bases during lunch hour and supervised by me!! Several interesting educational kits were ordered for this club before the Christmas holidays. The kits vary from constructing vehicles , blueprint designing, bridge building and physics experiments. Students get to construct and build various types of structures and get to use their creativity through constructive play. So far the students are really enjoying this club. Check out our photos from the first day of the club.

Do you know how to blow a bubble?

We had a wondeful Language Arts class where we practised blowing bubbles! Yes, you read correctly! We were doing an instructional piece of writing where we had to write down the instructions on "how to blow a bubble". The students had so much fun practising blowing bubbles with pink bubble gum. We then had a competition on who could make the biggest bubble. Check our photos below.

Bookfest Week

The students at Grosse Ile School are having a wondeful time this week due to Bookfest. On Monday the Cycle 2 & 3 paired up for reading buddies. They really enjoyed sharing their favorite stories with each other.

Video Conference With A Whale Shark!

We just had a great video conference with an actual scuba diver who went down in the water with a gigantic whale shark! This was a wonderful opportunity to learn many new interesting facts about these mysterious creatures. The scuba diver was actually talking to us and answering our question while under the water . Despite their largeness these sharks are quite gentle. We were invited, along with a couple of other schools, to participate in this conference by the Georgia Aquarium. Thank you very much for the invitation.

Science Field Trip

The Cycle 2 class was invited my Noah's grandmother to visit her aquarium at her house. She realized one day that there was "something" growing on the side of her aquarium! What was it??? She came to the conclusion that one of her snails had laid some eggs. There are 2 types of snails in her aquarium - an apple snail and a mystery snail. Which snail has laid the eggs? She is not sure. There are 2 big fish in her aquarium along with some smaller fish. Check out our photos.

Pumpkin Seed Count

The Cycle 2 Class once again did the "Pumpkin Seed Count" project. The students always seem to be amazed with how many seeds are in a pumpkin. This year our pumpkin weighed 9lbs. The students then estimated how many seeds were in the pumpkin. Some estimates were low and one student was actually quite close. Sean estimated that there were about 511 seeds

. Our pumpkin actually had 550 seeds! The students decided that it would be easier to count the seeds if we put them in piles of 10. That worked out quite nicely since we had nice, even piles.