Jets “I Love To Read” Contest Entry

We had a blast coming up with ideas on how to enter the Jets, “I Love To Read Contest”.  The class came up with a rhyming rap and wanted to add some pizazz by adding the Jets coming on the ice song in the beginning and to end it the goal horn.  I was proud to see how everyone worked together to make it

1. happen.  Awesome effort by all!  Go Jets Go!

Studying Colour and Light Is Fun!

Students making a rainbow of colours with milk, food colouring and dish detergent.

The question "why" came up and students had some ideas.  One said that it must be a chemical reaction of some sort, so we decided to come up with the correct answer.
The secret of the bursting colours is in the chemistry of that tiny drop of soap.  Like other oils, milk fat is a non-polar fat molecule and that means it doesn't dissolve in water. When soap is mixed in, however, the non-polar portion of  the molecular soap structures in solution, break up and collect the non-polar fat molecules.  Basically, it's called fat molecule gymnastics, the food colouring molecules are bumped and shoved everywhere, providing an easy way to observe all the invisible activity.
It was neat to observe the fascination when the reaction started and kept going.
The colour display was amazing!

Winter Window

Our Classroom window is full of snow.

Happy 2020

It's 2020 and we are ready for more learning!!!

Thank you for the Hamper Donations

We are so grateful for the generosity of our classroom community. It was awesome to watch the students place their donation into the decorated hamper boxes.  We ended up with three full boxes when the grade 5's picked them up to be put them in the library.  As a class, we went for a gallery walk and looked at all the beautifully decorated hampers.  As a challenge, students were asked to count how many our school community donated.  There were a total of 72 hampers!  Great job EBEYS!!!  We helped make Christmas a bit easier for quite a few families in our community. 
Thank you again for helping your child with all the donations that were brought to school.

Our three full boxes