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Sprouts Game
A neat pencil and paper math game, popularized by Martin Gardiner:Sprouts Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
Fold and Cut Challenge
Did you know that it has been mathematically proven that any shape with straight sides can be cut with one cut, if the paper is pre-folded in the appropriate way?The Fold and Cut Challenge Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
Egg Drop Challenge
Some inspirational videos:Mark Rober on the Egg Drop ChallengeTwo Basic Ideas – Science Adventures Egg Drop Project Incredible Science Top 10 Egg Drop Challenges Spangler Science TV Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
Watering Plants with Microwaved Water – Step Two
Now, what do you think of this?McGill University post – watering plants with microwaved water Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
Watering Plants With Microwaved Water – step one
What do you think of this?Watering plants with microwaved waterTo be continued… Look for another post. Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
Geometry Dash Instructions
YouTube video instructions – Step 1 Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog
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The hunt for 100
On February 6th, we celebrated 100 days of being at school this year. In our class, we each brought in a collection of 100 things, and shared them with the class. We also hunted for the numbers 1-100 around our school, and recorded them to reveal a secret picture! Source::
Happy Friday!
Every Friday afternoon, we’ve been going skating at the park. We will be continuing to go until March Break (hopefully!). Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
Math building
We really love our math building games in grade 1/2! Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
We started our new unit!
Hello Grade 1/2 families! School has just been so busy that I haven’t updated our blog in quite some time. We’ve finished our unit on Machines, and wrapped it up with a project to design our own machine to help us solve a problem relevant to us. Now, we’ve moved
Catapult building, our Special Guest, and Types of Energy
In the last few weeks, we’ve have the opportunity to do lots of hands on learning. We built Rube Goldberg Machines as a school activity, and more recently, we learned how to build a catapult! First, we designed our own, and tried to see which designs worked the best. Then,