Thursday, March 31, 2016

Engineer Challenge

On Wednesday, March 30, students were given a challenge: build a fire tower to support a "firefighter and hose" using the least amount of pieces and meeting certain criteria. As students built, additional challenges were added. A video will soon follow. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures...











Tuesday, March 22, 2016

World Water Day

March 22 is World Water Day. It is important to understand how lucky we are in North America to have access to clean tap water.




Today, students will view a video to learn about the bottled water industry. Tomorrow, we will conduct our own taste test on the quality of tap vs bottled water. Please see the video below...




Monday, March 21, 2016

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Transformational Math

Today, we learned about real world applications to transformational Math. Some students thought the only reason we learn about transformations is so that we can complete worksheets. Have a look at this video.


Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Wow! So proud!

So very proud of my Grade 6 class! You showed inteGRITy! When your teacher wasn't watching, you did what you were supposed to do! You should be very proud of yourselves. Great job!