Dovercourt Dynamos!

Today's trip to Dover court was a hit! We walked the one kilometre there much quicker than the one kilometre back, and I'll put that down to the energy that we expanded while we are running on the grass. After arriving at the park we broke into pairs and did some hand eye manipulation activities with the throwing discs (frisbees).  We then worked in some running and catching activities, and attempted a few Frisbee games. The frisbee flip race worked out fairly well. Frisbee tag, designed to teach some basics of ultimate frisbee, may need a little bit more work before we can try it again. We will be working on learning some of the basic concept of ultimate frisbee in the coming days, so that when we travel to McKeller Park next week we will be able to just get out there on the grass and run run run.

It was a high-energy day, partially because of the excitement that came from our science activity at the park. We discussed some of the basic concepts of how molecules fit into solid liquids and gases.  We then used our understanding of how these molecules behave in the states to launch water rockets in the park in teams of four. It took a little while for the students to fully grasp what the fuel was that powered these rockets (they filled them with water and pumped and air).  Ask your child to tell you what they discovered.

I last block of the day we spent talking about targeting techniques in media literacy, and looking at print ads to determine who they were targeting. Again with the high energy type of day we had it was a very chatty class who was discussing these topics, which meant we had to revisit how to line up for dismissal a couple of times. I am sure thatdidn't put a damper on the day in general, and they will come home with lots to tell you about our trip. For our first field trip I would say it was an overwhelming success sunny skies,sunny attitudes, and lots of smiles.