Our First Field Trip!

Well, our first field trip has come and gone and it was a smashing success! I’m sure that the students from room 211 we’re pretty wiped out last night after all of our excitement yesterday. We started yesterday with dance mania, followed by a bit of math, and French class where they also were doing some movement activities. After that it was off to music with Owen, and then we headed to the park. One kilometre walk there and the one kilometre walk back, on top of all the running around, resulted in my watch Recording about 7 km of movement. While we are at the park we played some flag games, worked on some throwing and catching exercises with the discs, and played our first little game of ultimate frisbee. Everyone was pretty worn out when we finally took a break and switched over to our science activity. Grade fives are talking about properties of matter this year, so we did a quick review on basic properties of matter before launching water rockets into the sky over Dovercourt park. Their challenge was to try and determine what the fuel for the water rockets was, by experimenting with different amounts of water. Most of them realized that the air we were pumping into the bottles was what was creating the lift for the rockets.  

Like I said, it was a pretty tired crew by the end of the day, but I think I was able to spot smiles on all of their faces. Just a reminder that Terry Fox forms went home yesterday for the Terry Fox run in two weeks. We are setting some goals for fundraising, so if each student could make an effort to try and collect a few dollars for this great Canadian fundraising initiative, that would be appreciated.