Plate Tectonics

Students Use Playdough to Show How Mountains are Formed

After learning about the formation of Canada's Rocky Mountains, student experimented with playdough to create mountains on a much smaller (and faster) scale.  

Grade 4 Fossil Find

Amateur paleontologists participated in a mock fossil find.  They set out to find their dig site, then proceeded to unearth dinosaur eggs.  They carefully removed the fossilized egg material to discover trace fossils (imprints) and bone fossils. Following their discoveries, students documented their findings.  Congratulations Grade 4 on putting your knowledge of paleontology to use!   I do believe that we have some future paleontologists and archeologists in our midst. 

Welcome Back to a Brand New Year!

I'm so excited to begin a new school year teaching Grades 4 & 5.  

Students Enjoy and Old Fashioned School Day

The Grades 4 and 5 classes experienced an old fashioned school day by participating in our 1800s Day.  They arrived at school dressed in pioneer fashion, with plaid shirts, suspenders, lunch pails, aprons, and braided hair.  It looked as if our school had gone back in time about 150 years!



Pledging Allegiance to the Union Jack, which was the flag used in the 1800s classroom.

Today our spelling test was done as a spelling bee.

Slouching was not permitted!   Look at the exemplary posture.

Next on the agenda was Arithmetic

Students always stood up to ask and answer questions.

Students also tried their hand at cursive writing using a quill pen and ink. 

At lunch time we carried our lunch pails outside and enjoyed the beautiful spring weather.

We played a variety of pioneer games that the students had previously researched.  Here a game of Hoops and Graces is being played.

Hoop Roll is more challenging than it looks!

The object of Poor Doggie, is to try not to laugh!

Whose Got the Button?

Making Butter

Of course we had to try a little butter on some homemade biscuits.