Week at a Glance

Reading Buddy Love!

So nice to see the growing bonds between our reading buddies...

DOTally Spectacular Metis Art!

Check out 3W's completed masterpieces...

Metis Dot Paintings

Today we learned about the work of a Metis artist named Christi Belcourt. She uses 1000's of paint dots (that resemble traditional Metis beading) to create beautiful works of art inspired by nature. Here are a couple of her pieces:

The students then created some of their own spectacular dot painting. Many of them will continue working on their creations tomorrow afternoon - it gave us an appreciation of how time consuming this art form is. We saw an interview with Christi Belcourt in which she showed one of her pieces that was made up of more than 200,000 dots!

Blue Celery!

As these pictures show, our hypotheses about the celery experiment were confirmed! The water level went down and the celery turned blue!

Are Stems Like Straws?

Last we week we learned that stems are like straws for plants. They transport water and nutrients from the roots of a plant to their leaves. Today we placed some celery stalks in water tinted with blue food colouring and drew a line to mark the water level. The students hypothesized that by tomorrow, the water level would go down and that the leaves of the celery would turn blue...we will post Part 2 of the experiment tomorrow!

Week at a Glance

Mythical Attack!

Cameron completed his narrative trailer on Friday as he was away when we made them before March Break. Hang on for a wild ride....

Mythical Attack!

Swim to Survive Snafu!

WHOOPS! Turns out our Swim to Survive lessons take place on the following dates:

• Friday, April 12th, 1-2 pm
• Friday, April 26th, 1-2 pm
• Friday, May 3rd, 1-2 pm

I had a few very disappointed students on my hands Friday afternoon when I discovered my mistake! I was so impressed that all the students had brought their swim suits as well. Sorry about that confusion and thanks for your understanding!

Book Tour with our Buddies!

Today the 3W students shared their narrative trailers with Mrs. Porcari's class. They then had a chance to read their books to a variety of buddies from Mrs. Porcari's class. The Book Tour was a definite success!

Popcorn!

A reminder that popcorn is being sold at lunch tomorrow to support World Water Day! $1 for a small bag and $2 for a large bag!

Swim to Survive!

Tomorrow afternoon is our first Swim to Survive session! Make sure to pack your bathing suit and towel!

Support Our Ottawa 67's!

Friday's PJ Day has been switched to Red, White and Black Day to support our Ottawa 67's who have made the playoffs!

 

Week at a Glance!

I hope every one had a terrific March Break! Looking forward to our reunion and hearing about everyone's adventures tomorrow!

Happy March Break!

Trailers!

To promote their published narrative stories, the students created the following trailers which will most certainly generate a lot of buzz about their books! Below are the links to the trailers that each 3W student created. Move over Mr. Spielberg - not only do we have talented authors in 3W, but we have some budding film makers as well!

Katherine's The Garden Fairies

Avery's The Dog Mermaids

Firdaus' Minecraft Netherworld

Ava's The Flying Unipugs

Emmanuel's The Golden Diamond and the Magical Cat

Alivia's The Spooky Club

Kara's The Dog Switch Up!

Mikkel's The Evil Book

Emily's The Magical Friends

Nyah's Cat Attack

Elroei's The Hole in the Mall

Lakota's The Lost DogKeira's The Lost Kitten

Davio's The Lonely King

Jayson's Godzilla's Escape!

Keira's The Lost Kitten

Bridge Designer Extraordinaire!

Ava was declared the champion of the 3W Bridge Challenge this afternoon! Her truss bridge design was able to support a load of 100 pennies! Way to go, Ava!

Bridge Building Showdown!

This morning, the students used their knowledge of different kinds of bridges (truss, arch and pillar) to design a paper bridge that needed to span 15 cm and support as many pennies as possible! They were allowed to use a maximum of 2 pieces of paper and were not permitted to use glue or tape! The students rose enthusiastically to this challenge!

Emily and Katherine's arch/truss bridge held the record with 82 pennies until Emmanuel's pillar/truss bridge managed to hold 86 pennies before collapsing! We will test a few more tomorrow afternoon!

Week at a Glance!

Looking forward to being reunited with the 3W charmers tomorrow! Here is a sneak peek at the week ahead - there will more additions as the week progresses. Stay tuned!