Open House 2014

 Thank you to all parents, students and guests who came to visit our classroom. Our first Catholic Education Week Open House was filled with so much student work to share. 

I hope you enjoyed your visit to our classroom and were able to learn about the concepts and skills your child was and is currently learning. Not to mention the hard work students put into their writing reflections, artwork, their medias (e.g., Aurasma, Educreations) and their ongoing e-portfolio.

I have assembled a few tweets below that showcased student work while visiting. For those that were not able to attend, hope this post will give you a glimpse of our morning.

Thanks again,

Mme Krawiecki

Tweets about "#ykopenhouse14"

Earth Week 2014

Join us as we support Earth Week 2014 with activities, lessons and more!

Waste-free lunches ALL WEEK!!!

Tuesday April 22 - Wear Green for Earth Day!

Wednesday April 23 - Wear blue for Water!

Thursday April 24 - Wear white for Air. Walk to School Wednesday!

Friday April 25 - Wear brown for soil. Plant a seed!

Monday April 28 - Wear red, yellow or orange for Energy!

Celebrate Earth Hour under the stars

Les services du gouvernement par les 5ième Ext

12 Things Parents Raising Bilingual Children Need to Know

Taken from http://sce.ocsb.ca/announcements/informationforparents

Sound Experiment

   Recently, we have been learning about the properties of sound. The knowledge and understanding that I want students to gain is the relationship between energy, vibrations and sound. Through our experiment, not only will students see and hear this relationship, but they will also manipulate volume and pitch.

Task 1: Create a instrument with recycled materials, focusing on creating a vibration. The more creative, the better!
Task 2: Before the experiment, students had to determine where the vibrations are created on their instrument and where will they place the contact mic to capture those vibrations.

   With a few students at a time, they were able to experiment with the contact mic creating a change in pitch and volume. I was able to control the volume of all instruments through a mixer (to maintain an equal volume). The mixer watch attached to the classroom speaker (for students to hear) and my laptop (recording through Garage band).
    Below you can hear the sounds made from then vibrations of students' instruments.

Quel est le rôle de la technologie dans les jeux olympiques?

Inspired by technology and the Sochi Olympics, the students were asked what role does technology play in the olympics? Using their ideas as a lead, they researched their inquiries first before sharing the facts. We then used a shared Google presentation to communicate the ideas and research.