Bike Trip to the Gallery

Habitats Games

Between the lessons in class, our trip to MacSkimming and getting to watch some clips of Planet Earth, room 310 is fast becoming experts on animal habitats. 

Today in the lab you will get a chance to look at some fun online games to help us show what we've learned so far, and to help us learn some new things about habitats.

Where do I live? challenges you to choose where in the world a variety of animals live. Think about what you know about the animals, even if you don't know all that much. Where do you think they would be able to survive and thrive?

Build a Habitat gives you a chance to change the vegetation, precipitation, biome and animal selected to create a perfect match. Pay attention to the compatibility scale to see how you are doing?

After trying out the first two games, take a look at Catch the Moment. This game gives you the chance to try to take perfect pictures of animals in their own habitats. Be sure to read the instructions so you know how to operate your virtual camera.

Take a moment at the end of the lab time to post a comment on which game you enjoyed the most and why.

Have fun!

MacSkimming

This past Thursday, the grade fours and fives went to MacSkimming at Forest Edge. They had many fun activities planed for us. The grade fours were focusing on habitats and the grade fives were working on mapping grounds.

The grade fours started of by playing a really fun game called Predator and Prey. The whole class really enjoyed it even the teachers and parent volunteers got involved. The class split up into three kinds of consumers [herbivores, omnivores and carnivores]. The adults got to play the role of poachers, natural disasters and minivans! Owen had a little too much fun getting to hunt all the consumers!

After playing Predator and Prey we did a salamander search. Our instructor at MacSkimming, Marni, told us that salamanders live in damp areas under logs. Salamanders are unique because they have such small habitats. They spend their whole life within a 2 meter area. We found salamanders, toads, frogs, millipedes and lots of fun!

After a quick lunch we went to the wetlands dock to catch a whole bunch of aquatic creatures. Things that we found included: tadpoles, predacious diving beetles, leeches, water spiders and much more.

We also had a chance to catch some other creatures. We went into an open field with lots of tall grass and used big butterfly nets to catch lots of insects. Before heading into the field, Martha transformed into a giant insect with wings, compound eyes, a thorax and antennae.

We want to say a big thank you to all the parent volunteers and to our great instructor, Marni.

Division practice

We have been working really hard on division recently. Being able to multiply numbers quickly really makes division easier and more enjoyable. Today in the lab, you can take a few minutes after completing IXL to check out these multiplication games.

Folk Art Vernissage

For the past month, our class has been working on our folk art paintings. We are very thankful for all the effort that Lyne has put into helping us and showing us the process of this wonderful type of art. All of the students worked very hard on their paintings, and the class truly enjoyed the time.

Before even picking up a brush, we learned all about the history of Canadian folk art and about folk art of today. Folk art is art created by untrained artists, like us. It is often inspired by nature and the personal interests of the artist. We took time to draw out a plan for our paintings. Our plans included both the foreground, middle ground and background. While we were drawing our plans, we took time to think about colour choice, use of patterns and subject matter. We learned about the different themes of folk art; whimsical, realistic, humourous, fantasy and tells a story.

To begin our paintings, we each started with a piece of plywood. We sanded down the boards and covered them with gesso. We used a sponge brush to paint our base colour before we were able to paint our background. Then we painted another layer for our background, middle ground, and foreground, all the while using our drawings to guide us. After that we started adding more detail and colours and our paintings started to come to life!☻

When we finished our paintings and had our vernissage and ate our fill of snacks, then we became true artists! We are very thankful to Lyne and all of the parents who came to our vernissage. Without them it would not have been as big of a success!

Making sense of food labels

Here is the video about food labels. Use the information in the article and the video to complete the Google Form that has been sent to your email.

Nutrition Games

Here are a few games you can play to help remember what we have been learning in Health these days