We enjoyed our morning with Denise Miller, a Metis storyteller. She told aboriginal stories about various North American animals, such as beavers, deer, and even the dog!.One story we heard was about how fawns are protected by camouflage. This is a great segway into our story writing about myths and legends of animals from one of Canada’s Dynamic communities.
In science, we did an experiment to distinguish between materials that absorb liquids from those that repel them. We had some fun by first playing a silly game called "Absorb or not". (Basically students just yelled out absorb or not when shown a material and then had to explain their reasoning. )
After, we defined the words absorb, repel and porous. Having this key vocabulary helped us complete our experiment. We used a variety of common materials to see which ones did in fact repel or absorb materials.
Coming up:
- Mrs. Jordan away tomorrow (no blog tomorrow)
- Popcorn day - Jan. 17/18
- Early Dismissal next Friday
