OJCS Grade 3 / Kitah Gimmel

Individual school photos have been distributed today. The deadline to get orders in is Friday November 22nd. Re-takes will be on Thursday 28th November. If you are wanting  a re-take, hold on to your original and it should be handed back in to the photographer on retake day.

Any questions or queries, please just email.

Miss M

Where are these weeks going? I cannot believe we are in November and there is snow! The week began with a completion of our Science celery experiment. This experiment look at celery cell makeup and how water is soaked up through the celery plant and what would happen if a ‘foreign’ addition to the water (food colouring). The plant was left for 1 week to soak up the water and dye and then dissect the plant to investigate what was happening inside.

We then had a class workshop with Brigitte looking at the Rings of Responsibility we all have when online. Students needed to think about how and what they responsible for in their lives, in their community and in the wider world.

Finally, we are coming to the end of our data management unit in Math. We are not re-capping our skills of collecting data and tallying, representing our data in a graph of our choice then we will present the data showing the conclusions we have reached. Exciting times for all those budding data analysts in the class!

This week has been busy with scientific experiments (amongst other things!) We are almost finished our plants module and are ready to jump right into soil investigations (You would be amazed at home interesting and intriguing soil can be!) We will also be starting to look into structures and beginning to build.

We started with examining our  bean seed to see if they had sprouted or not – our guiding question was ‘Do seeds need soil to germinate?’. Some students had beans that had sprouted and some not yet. We questioned why that could have happened, answers ranged from how much light, how much water even the quality of the bean. We used magnifying lenses to inspect the seed and what had sprouted.

Students then replanted their bean sprout to see what happens next. They have the responsibility of keeping their plant alive and ensuring it has everything it needs. Once our beans have produced stalk, we will begin our Structures module and get ready to build a self sufficient watering device (get ready for the post about bringing in as many clean recycled items as you can… your garbage recycling team will be happy… The corner of my classroom… not so much!)

The next experiment involved looking into the stalk make up of a celery plant. The celery plant is different to other plants and we looked in to how its stem and cell make up was different. The experiment used our knowledge of a plants water needs. We added food colouring to the water and will be documenting what happens to the stem and the leaves.

-UPDATE-

Our food colouring has reached the edges of the Celery plant!