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| Red-winged black bird |
Wonderful thinking, observation, discovering, and collaboration occurred last week. Here are some highlights of our learning:
In math we continue on with our measurement exploration and created irregular polygons in our math journals to measure the perimeter. A great opportunity to practice our mental math skills, using addition, multiplication and division.
We have also been expanding our understanding of time as a measurement and connecting to activities that take about 1 min, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes and 1 hour. Here are some of our ideas:
What other ideas can you think of together at home.
This week we have been lucky to try out the
gym fit drum kits. This is a powerful tool for using coordination, endurance, core strength, timing, collaboration and communication. Here is a link for you to discover more about it:
https://www.drum.fit/
Thursday was a spectacular day because we went on our community field trip down to the ponds at the bottom of Symons Valley Parkway. We put on our field scientist identities as we explored biodiversity and life cycles within a wetland ecosystem. The best discovery of our day was finding a beaver habitat and watching it swim and feed within in this flourishing habitat. There was plenty of evidence that beavers had been in this area as you will see from the photos. This trip sparked loads of connections, questions and inferences as we sketched and completed our OWI charts in the field. Here are some photos of our journey. Thanks so much to our parent volunteers who joined us.
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| The water levels are very high under the bridge. Why do you think that is? |
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| Why is there foam on the water? |
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| Nose Creek |
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| Cattails we found out are a vital aquatic plant for maintaining balance in this wetland. They provide hiding spots and food, for many species. |
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| Hmmm, what's going on here? What is your inference? |
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Why does creating a point assist the beaver?
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| Mindful sketching in our journals. |
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| Careful observation and questioning. |
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| Sedimentary layers |
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| Noticing how nature takes care of itself by regenerating off the mother trunk. |
Beaver lodge spotted
Here are some of our collaborative observations, wonders and inferences from our field research on Thursday:
On Friday we had our guest speaker from the Humane Society come and speak to us about the 3 R's: respect, rights and responsibility. Animals and humans have rights, it is or responsibility to conserve animal species by acting responsibly when we are out in nature. Our thinking was transformed as we learned how to pay attention to signs and to avoid conflict with species who enter into our urban centers. We learned some new vocabulary words: urbanization, and habituation. Part or our grade 3 science curriculum covers the effects of human impact on ecosystems and animal adaptations, life cycles and behaviours. Here are some photos:
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