STEM project

We finished our last FULL day of school off with a STEM project. (STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and Math)

This is something I'd like to incorporate into my classroom next year, but these 5th graders were happy to be my guinea pigs! 🐖

Their task today was to build a tower that could be both tall AND strong. Their tower had to hold a cup and must be built out of straws, tape and string. They were also allowed to use scissors and a single hole punch. Each group had 150 straws and 1 cup. After the towers were complete we put jelly beans into each towers cup, one at a time, and counted how much each tower could hold.

And boy, did they deliver!

Here's some pictures during the build.

The Final Countdown

      Our fantastic fifth graders are soon-to-be sensational sixth graders! It's hard to believe                     but tomorrow is our FINAL day!

Now, your usually lovely teacher (me) may be            looking alot like this during this week,

               but there's no need to make fun.

The end has come and even though I may look like poor bugs bunny, ⬆ I really will miss all my grade 5s!

We have been having lots of fun the last few days getting ready to wrap up the year and celebrate Canada's 150th birthday!

It is so special for our class to celebrate this momentous milestone for Canada since we have spent the whole year learning all about Canada's history and it's growth into such a diverse nation.

Our whole a school dressed in Red and White and took a roof top picture to celebrate Canada's 150th!

Our class is the left hand column of the 1!
                                   See us!?

 The grade 5s also had the opportunity to show off how fantastic they are by being leaders at the gr. 1-3 Play Day! They were running play stations and being group leaders.. and they may have had some fun too!

Local reservoir - TilleyB

Bassano Dam

We are inquiring all about our local water for our Wetlands Unit so that we can understand why water is so important and why we should be protecting it.

Our area doesn't get alot of precipitation so our local residents rely on water taken from the Bow River that stems from the Rocky Mountains.

The Eastern Irrigtaion District controls the amount of water taken from the Bow River at the Bassano Dam and sends it all across our area. 1,200 irrigation farmers receive their water through a system of 4,800 kilometers of canals and drains and thirteen storage reservoirs. 

The system also supplies water to all the industry, wet land habitat projects, towns and villages in the area, serving a population base of 18,000 people.

YeeeHaawww!

                     It's rodeo weekend y'all!
We had a hoot n' hollerin' good time today for our Western Day and rodeo events outside.
Have a fun and safe rodeo weekend everybody!

Read, Relax, Repeat

Our classroom was so hot and the day was so nice, we thought we would take our books outside! 

Talk Show Interviews

These fantastic fifth graders are working on typing out interview questions and answers!

We have some very famous people coming in for interviews. All types of celebrities, from YouTubers and singers to sports stars! 

Bet you didn't know we were so well connected!

Ok...ok!

 So all these famous people won't ACTUALLY be visiting our classroom but with our amazing writing and flashy talk show studio, you'd never know the difference! 

Ok...ok! 

So we don't ACTUALLY have a flashy news studio BUT we do have a.....

GREEN SCREEN and an IPAD! 

We are testing out a new app called Touchcast Studio and with our fancy greenscreen (ok!.. I got it at the dollar store! Jeez...) we can record our talk show interviews and have it look like we are sitting IN a studio.   

Pretty slick, right?! 

Keep posted to see how 'taping' goes!