What a week!

We have had so much learning and hard work this week! We have created some new Lego robots, learned about the properties of liquids, created pieces of opinion writing, worked with data and graphs, and so much more.

During Education Technology we have created new lego robots. These robots are controlled through a drag-and-drop computer program, and do everything from chomp to sit up and roar. These Lego investigations allow students to creatively work as a team, as well as use inquiry to solve any problems they encounter.

This shows the program, as well as a drumming monkey!

Students are working to create programs.

We have also been working with different states of matter. This week during 4-winds we had a supplementary lesson on water. In this investigation we worked with water and learned about some more of it's properties. Students used the surface tension of water to see how many drops fit on a penny, and to balance and suspend a paperclip!

Floating paper-clips!

We also continued our work with data and graphs. We have been using data tables to practice multiplication patterns, as well as to do some introductory algebra. We have then used the information from our tables to create graphs.

 

Keagan adding data to a class graph.

Finally, parent conferences are next week. I have received times from many of you and will send the updated schedule home on Friday. If you still need to sign up, please add your name to the schedule, or if you would like to come Monday morning, please send me an email, or give a call so we can get it arranged.

Thanks and have a great weekend,

Dave.