Wonder Wall Findings

Today we conquered a few more of our Wonder Wall Questions with the help of the Senior Class!

We are looking at different ways to present what we know. Students decided to link to ideas and find information in different ways.

For the question What would have happened if the Titanic did not sink?, some students linked to a video that helped them to explain a few of the ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4S9QFIfIY

Some students found it helpful to link to websites that would have their information. To answer the question Why is a Blue Whale called a Blue Whale?, some students created a QR code to link to a useful website:


Some students decided to write down their answers in a Google Doc. To answer Why did people climb to the top of Mount Everest, two students researched on the internet and then wrote: "People went to the top of mount everest because they want to go mountain climbing and feel good that they did something hard."

Others decided to show the answers to their questions using Google Slides:

All in all, some very interesting and diverse ways to show what they have learned!

wonder wall questions

these are all the wonder wall questions we have click a link for a question

how come people went to the top of mt. everest 

how do Egyptians make their cloths

how come bees pollinate flowers

do pirates still exist

how long would people live in ancient egypt

do slaves and other people go to the next world in ancient egypt

what if Lego wasn't invented until 2014

why are bow head whales called bow head whales

I liked reading two bad ants.I also liked day owl night owl.on the weekend I want to play veideo games.i enjoyod show and tell

my week end.

I enjoyed  playing  pinball dogeball.  I go  to  my  nana  to day. I would like to learn more about knights. 

Feb. 11 - Starting our Stable Structures / Pulleys and Gears Unit

This week, the Grade 3s in our class started the Strong and Stable Structures Unit (The Grade 4s will be beginning their work on Pulleys and Gears with Ms. B next week).

We started by looking at a picture and attempting to find out how many structures we could notice. We also circled them with green if they were stable or strong and red if they were not (unfortunately, these do not show up on the picture):

There was a bit of a debate in class regarding the man and his son and whether he was a structure or not. By looking at the other examples, we realized as a class that a structure is anything that can support something else (which we call a "load") - therefore, the man acts as a structure for his child!

Students were then given a challenge - using 20 spaghetti sticks, a metre of tape, and a handful of mini marshmallows, they were to work with a partner to make the highest structure they could. We'll be completing this at the start and the end of the unit to see if we can make a better design!

A lot of students noticed the triangles in the above picture and came up with their own designs that used triangles. Here are some of their designs:

Feb. 9 - Line of Symmetry

We continue our investigation into 2D Shapes this week by looking into lines of symmetry. We started by looking into lines of symmetry that we can find in our environment:

We then used a ruler as a line of symmetry to create our own designs that showed symmetry:

 

We'll be creating some art later this week that shows symmetry as well!

Feb. 8 - Spirit Week / Fractured Fairy Tales

Spirit Week / PD Day Friday
This week is Spirit Week! Please send in permission forms and money for the Tuesday trip bowling if  you have not yet already. Also, please note that this Friday is a PD Day so there is no school.

Our Spirit Day Activities are as follows:

Monday - Crazy Hair / Wacky Hat Dag + Little Ray's Repitles
Tuesday - Sports Day + Bowling
Wednesday - Superhero Day + Magician
Thursday - Wear Red or Pink or Both + Outdoor Fun Day

It's going to be a fun week!

Fractured Fairy Tales
We have been learning a bit about Fractured Fairy Tales in class and are just in the process of creating our own!
Fractured Fairy Tales share a lot of similarities to their original story but they often change an aspect in a key way. Here are some of the ways that they can be changed:

We have been reading some fractured fairy tales (The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs) and have seen some Youtube videos about them. 

As a class, we decided to make up our own ending to the classic Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, and added a not so happy after all ending. 

Students are either writing up and then drawing their fairy tales (Grade 4s) or creating Bitstrips about them (Grade 3s).