18 Things You Can Do to Help the Earth!

Recycle! -Karys

Don't litter! -Sofia

Clean up trash! -Kayla

Use both sides of the paper. -Ella

Save electicity by turning off the lights and closing the fridge. -Syd

Be nice to the worms. -Rylee

Save your left overs. -Elly

Don't cut down the trees. -Rhianna

Turn off the faucet. -Carter

Be nice to animals. -Brandon

Plant trees. -Cali

Use bikes not cars. -Kaspir

Reuse stuff that you can make crafts with. -Reegan

Give your old clothes to someone else younger. -Nick

Compost! -Jonathan

Turn off the water when you're brushing your teeth! -Cayden

Bring your own bags to the store. -Alexander

Feed the birds in the winter. -Cam

Painting Eyes and Other Stuff

Today we painted eyeballs. The eyes are going to go up on the wall. We went to groups and we did some writing. After Spring Break we're going to go on a field trip and we're going to make some stuff out of wood. -Rhianna
We painted our eyes different colours. And then we had to dry them off. -Sam
Today we did centres and Mrs. Malkoske put us into groups. There was measuring tapes and beakers and scales and thermometers. For the thermometer group I put mine in the freezer and it went to 11. -Taylor
Today Sydney R's Mom came so we could paint our eyeballs that we made yesterday. The colours that I used were brown, yellow, and green. The paints are water paint. We did some centres and there were four. My first centre was the beakers. -Madeline

At lunch recess when the bell rang I saw my Mom. Me and Kendall got undressed really fast and then we grabbed our shoes and went into the corner and then we went behind the word work wall and we put our headphones on. Mrs. Malkoske and my Mom laughed and me and Kendall laughed too. In the afternoon my Mom came. I got to paint my eye first because my Mom was here. Me and Madeline were cleaning the paper that my Mom cut. -Sydney R

Today we had centres and I went to Joining and Building centre. We had to write what you can build with and join with. -Cameron

Today we painted our eyeballs. -Nick

Today we painted our eyeballs and tomorrow we are going to hang them up on the wall. We are going to take them home after. -Kaspir

Today we painted eyeballs. Eyeballs look very creepy to me. -Rylee

New Friends

Last night Mrs. Malkoske went and bought frogs. We named them Fred and Bob. -Nick

Our new friends are frogs. We feed them black pellet things. We feed them on Thursday and Monday. They didn't eat their lunch today. -Cole

I have the same frogs that we have but my names that I have are Freddy and Splash. I have the same rocks in mine. Today I got to see them. -Tyson

Today we got some new pets and they are frogs. We had to do a vote to see what names we should name them. Fred and Bob won so that's their names. Mrs. Malkoske also got an ant farm but there's no ants. It's for Jolene's PIP project. -Madeline

Today we got an ant factory, it's a mini one. It came with instructions to make it and the directions also had an ant food recipe. You have to get human food too like an egg and stuff. -Jolene

Our frogs have bamboo and two crystals and coloured rocks and we feed them. -Kaspir

Taylor and Jolene went to the table with me for Star Lunch. -Sam

Today we got new pets. Now I want to do pets because now we get to feed three pets. -Brandon

In the morning Mrs. Malkoske wrote on the board "We got 2 new members of our classroom." She said that they didn't like to be in hot or cold places and she told us that they were in her lunchkit. Then we went to Assembly. -Sydney R

Today was a very exciting day in our classroom! Last night I went to Scholar's Choice and picked up a few things for the group of kids that are working on PIP projects. For most of them, this is their very first experience with researching a topic, and I hope that it will inspire many more personal inquiry projects both in school and outside of school. Their enthusiasm for doing research and sharing their learning is amazing (and I have to admit, a little bit surprising)! I think it's very important for kids to learn by reading, doing, seeing, touching and exploring the things they are most interested in. You can learn a lot about frogs from books and the Internet, but at some point I think it's important to actually meet one :) I want to keep the excitement alive while supporting these kids in their personal learning. So... for now we've now added 2 frogs, an ant farm, a model solar system, a crystal growing science kit, a fossil making station, and a rock testing station... and our greenhouse is ready to go for after spring break! I'm just trying to figure out something for the kids that are studying larger animals... I'm on the look out for some experts that those students can connect with via email or Skype. We're looking for a fish expert and a horse expert. If you know of anyone, please comment below.

-Mrs. Malkoske

About Our Eyes

Today we went to the computer lab and we got to do a blog post on our Kid Blog. I wrote about my Dad because he left for a trip on March 5th and I really want him to make it to my hockey game tonight. -Taylor

Today we were making eyeballs. We did a circle called the pupil and then we did eyelashes and then we did a circle called the iris. -Nick

Mrs. Malkoske showed us a book about eyes and we learned about it. Then we drew our own eyes. We looked at our eyes in a mirror and drew what we saw. The colour of my iris was hazel. For the pupil we drew it black with Sharpies. Tomorrow we're going to paint our eyes. Some of us are going to finish them then paint them.-Madeline

I can't wait until tomorrow because we're going to paint them. -Brandon

The Best Number Of The Day

For number of the day we could pick the number that we wanted to do. The grade ones got to pick between ten and fifty. The grade twos got to pick between fifty and 200. The number Madeline's picked was 195.
Sydney R number was fifty that was the highest number you could go if you were a grade oner. One of the number sentinces was 20 + 30 = 50. We had to draw a math picture how much the number was.
- Madeline, Kendall, and Sydney R

We also talked about measurement today. Here are some of the ways and tools we talked about:
-length (tape measure, measuring tape, ruler, meter stick)
-height
-weight (scale)
-temperature (thermometer, fish tank, outside, your body, in the car
-time
-GPS measure distance
-in the oven
-baking... using measuring cup and spoons
-level tells if something is straight or not

Frosty the Snowman

We are learning about solids, liquids and gas in science. We know that ice melts into a liquid that's water. He will melt unless we put him back outside where it's cold enough. Frosty looked like he was sweating and the sun is making him hot and trying to melt him. Frosty is going to melt and at the bottom there is a crack and it looks like a marble. Frosty the snowman is getting cracks in his head and all of his parts on him like his nose and eyes and buttons and tie are starting to leak off. We know he's melting because the water is making the sticky stuff fall off. When Frosty melts he'll look like a puddle. He looks like a snowman made of marbles. He was big and his nose fell off. He's getting smaller and smaller and there's water in the bottom of the water table. Some leaked out on the floor. He has holes in him now. We think that tomorrow he'll be all water.

Science! Solids, Liquids and Gas!

Today during our computer lab time we started our next Inquiry project. We will be learning about SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND GASES as well as THE SENSES. Over the next few weeks we are going to be SCIENTISTS! We will be doing many, many experiments.... starting tomorrow! We will blog about our experiments and explorations here! Stay tuned...

Here are some of our ideas about solids, liquids and gases. We know that there are many more than will fit on our list.

Solids	Liquids	Gases
Shoes Toothpaste Ice Car Table Books Sand Bricks Coal Clothes	Drinks Hot chocolate Water Coffee Milk Blood Iced Tea Smoothies Paint Ink	Smoke Dry Ice Fire In outer space Steam Carbon Dioxide Water vapour Oxygen

In the computer lab we did some experiments on the computer. It was fun! Here is a link to the BBC Science site if you want to try some experiment too!
BBC Science
-The Kids of Room 9

Volunteers are Awesome

This month we've had many volunteers come into our classroom to help out with a variety of jobs. They've helped us by getting materials ready, typing up our stories, reading with us, doing art projects with us, and being there when we need them. I'm not quite sure what we'd do without them! We look forward to meeting more parents next month and throughout our year together.

This week we had a couple of familiar faces return to our classroom all the way from B.C. Taylor's grandparents came and spent this afternoon in our classroom and will return on Friday afternoon. The children who were in my class last year met Taylor's grandparents when they came and helped us paint the birdhouses the children built. We always enjoy having them and of course welcome other Grandfolks too :)

Here are a couple of pictures that I took looking out our classroom window earlier this month. Our feeders are keeping the neighbourhood birds very happy. We've already gone through an entire bag of birdfeed... and we're pretty sure that Mr. Miles is feeding them too!

Mad Science!

Mad Science came today. -Aliegha
We're going to learn about planets. -Rylee
They had a card and ripped it. Then she put it on fire and put it in a pot. Then Tyson got it out and it was the card again. -Sydney R
When they put dry ice in the container the lid popped! -Nicholas
When they put dry ice up against a plate it made a noice. -Cole
Then Mr. Chan said eeeeeeekkkkk! -Sydney R
They did lots of experiments. -Peyton
They put a fire in a bottle and they put an egg on top. Then the Mr. Eggbert squeezed in and the fire went out. Then she blew in the bottle and Mr. Eggbert came out. -Madeline
They brought a friend that was an egg (Mr. Eggbert). -Ashley
She put a leaf blower and it blew in her face. Then balanced a ball in the air with it. -Sydney H
She put a hair dryer on and a ping pong ball on top and balanced it. -Kendall

Note to Parents: Mad Science will be offering a before school club at our school beginning in October. Information is coming home tonight in your child's Back and Forth folder.