Spirit Week Coming Up

Spirit Week is during the last week before Spring Break (March 24-28th).  All students are welcome to participate:

http://www.fun2enjoy.com/1187/funny-dogs-in-unusual-weird-wigs.html

Monday - Wacky Hair Day 
Tuesday - Pattern Day
Wednesday - Excessive Accessory Day
Thursday - Pajama Day
Friday - Jersey Day

*We return back to school after the break on Monday, April 7th (Day 5).

Paralympics Congratulations!

A big congratulations goes out to all of the Canadian athletes who participated in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

 

Canada made their mark once again in Sochi, placing third overall for our medal count. 

 

A special congratulations goes out the Canadian curling team, who won gold.  This gave Canada a gold medal hat trick in curling, along side the gold wins from the Canadian men's and women's curling teams one month ago.

We would also like to congratulate the Canadian Sledge Hockey team on their bronze medal win on the weekend.  We enjoyed watching you dominate many of the teams all week long.  We also have made our mark in the sport of hockey, with all three Canadian Hockey teams medalling at the Olympics. 

Our students really enjoyed learning about the Olympics, Paralympics and Sledge Hockey.  They loved cheering on team Canada this winter in the Olympics and Paralympics. 

 

Thanks for being so inspirational Canada!

Pictures sourced from:

http://www.paralympic.org/npc/canada

Paralympic Sledge Hockey Promo

Thanks Alyssa, Sherrisa and Haley!

Sledge Hockey with Sam Unrau & Bill Muloin

Sledge Hockey player, Sam Unrau and Bill Muloin from the Society for Manitobans with Disabilites, came for a visit today.  Sam and Bill are both very knowledgeable and passionate about the sport of Sledge Hockey, so it was very exciting to listen to them and to participate.  We even got to sit in Bill's sledge!  Sam brought to our attention many important thoughts about disability awareness.  He showed us this year's Canadian Paralympic solgan, as shown above: "It's not what's missing, It's what's there".  What a great solgan!  We got to see up close some goalie equipment.  The metal picks on the stick and glove were crazy sharp!  We learned some important imformation for our project that we couldn't find on the websites we looked at.  We each wrote about one thing that we learned and one thing that we liked about our visit.  Here are our thoughts:

Steven: I learned that any person can join at any age and at anytime.
Garrett: I really liked sitting on the sledge.
A.J. I learned that the sledge is wobbly.
Meghan: I learned that goalies don't wear big goalie pads.
Cole: I like that everyone can play.
Ater: I learned that parents can play with their kids, boys and girls can be on the same team and anyone can play.
Tristen A: I liked it when we yelled; "Go Canada, Go!"
Nathan: I learned that some goalies can play cross legged and some have their legs and sledges straight out.
Trace: I like the sticks that they use.
Tristan G: I really like the equipment and I learned that girls can play.
Alyssa: People with disabilities can play sledge hockey.
Bella: I liked going in the sledge.  It was so much fun!
Caitlin & Sherrisa: I learned that anyone can play sledge hockey.
Jackson: I learned that players can bodycheck.
Sijad: I liked how Bill and Sam taught us everything they knew.

Here are a few pictures of our visit:

 

If you are interested in seeing what sledge hockey is all about, come on out to a practice at the MTS Iceplex. Please visit the Manitoba Sledge Hockey website for icetimes:
http://www.sledgehockeymanitoba.com/ 

Be sure to cheer on this year's Canadian Sledge Hockey team at the Paralympics in Sochi next month!
Torch Relay Kicks Off - February 26th
Opening Ceremony - March 4th
For more information on the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, please visit:
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic
 
Go Canada, Go!

100 Day & Valentine's Day Activities

Today we had 10 centres to travel to for 100 Day/Valentine's Day.  Throughout the day, we made sure to do 10 repetitions of each of the following exercises, for a grand total of 100:

Jumping Jacks
Sit-ups
Lunges
Push-ups
Toe Touches
Knee Bends
Side Steps
Arm Curls
Shoulder Presses
Side Stretches

At the centres, our students had to complete activities that were either related to 100 Day or Valentine's Day.  Students were estimating, making 100 Dixie cup pyramids, counting and gluing their 100 collected items, building with 100 Lego pieces, calculating what they could do in 100 seconds, drawing what they would look like at 100 years old, writing $100.00 stories, making Valentine's crafts, playing Valentine's math games and eating yummy treats!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Here are some pictures from today:

Testing the Strength of Materials

Today we tested the strength of straws.  We learned that when we bundled the straws together, they were stronger because they held more pennies.  We started with one straw and it held 48 pennies.  We ended our experiment with four straws and it held 208 pennies!  Here are some pictures of our experiment:

Types of Structures

Today we talked about man-made and natural structures.  We sorted pictures of both types into a T Chart, with our table groups. Here is a shot of what we did today:

We are still in need of many more large boxes (diaper, cereal, etc.) and newspaper for some important Design Process projects coming up at the end of the month.  Thanks!