November 30

Well the last day of November is almost finished- I can't believe we will be starting the month of December tomorrow!! Please remember to return your learning commons books tomorrow- every Thursday is library exchange day. The books should be kept safe in the large ziploc bag that was provided. Also there is not school on Friday as it is a teacher professional development day.

Today in Science we learned more about liquids. The class was so excited to do an experiment that explored the concept of surface tension. We filled a cup of water up to the very brim (I used food colouring so the students could see better). They thought it was so interesting how the water hovered in a rounded way over the edge without falling over. Next we wanted to know how many paper clips we could drop into the cup without it spilling. We spent a long time counting and ended up with 133 paper clips in our cup!! Then the discussion moved on to talk about variables that would have changed our findings or outcome. Students listed things like the size of the paperclips, the size of the cup (good thing I didn't use a bigger cup!) and how we dropped the paperclips in (like how high or fast we moved our hand in). The class had to document their hypothesis, their observations during the experiment, and the resulting conclusion. Here are some pictures of our science lab.