Mrs. Spreen's Class Blog

WOW! Has April flown past! We have been very busy with core courses, but have also had many feature days.  We recently participated in SUPER CRAZY DAY and many students were as crazy as their outfits!  2 weeks ago, we went to the Edmonton Waste Management Centre.  It was an excellent adventure and the students learned many tidbits of information.  Our guide for the tour was very knowledgeable and friendly.  He was able to answer all of the questions the students asked! We have finished our Building Devices unit in the last while. A lot of the students built creative marble tracks and vehicles.  Thanks to everyone who contributed to the projects with your recyclable boxes, bottles and containers.  We also appreciated the extra tape which was sent to help us build. We have begun our Plant Growth and Change unit.  We will be planting some different things today, including a Venus Flytrap!  The students are quite excited about this unit which is encouraging. In Language Art, we a

Looking out the window onto the recycling. The equipment  moving the recycling as it begins its journey. Watching the sorting of recycling. Paper and cardboard being sent to be recycled. Interested students listening to the guide's (Neil) talk about recycling. More students listening to Neil. Neil demonstrating what can and cannot be recycled. One of the gears from inside a sorting machine - massive! Looking at the electronic waste mountain near GEEP. Listening to Neil talk inside GEEP. One of the chain sections that is used to smash electronics into recycle-able sized pieces. Composting. Thanks to Ms. Wheatley who came along. Compost station. Garbage Fluff is turned into biofuels - ethanol and methanol. We had a great trip - ask your child to explain his or her favourite part of the morning.

Hello, We have been diligently working on our building devices unit.  We are going to be wrapping it up by Friday of this week.  Some students are still requiring more supplies to complete their projects, so please ask your child if he/she needs supplies and what he/she may require.  Thanks.  There will not be a final assessment for this unit as the students have been assessed as they have been working on and completing each building task. Tomorrow we will be going to the Edmonton Waste Management Centre.  This field trip encompasses many curricular outcomes and reinforces past learning which was attained n our Waste and Our World unit.  It is an awesome trip! Our next unit in Science will be PLANTS  and we will be beginning this on Monday. We are honouring the fact that April is poetry month by studying about poems in our LA. We have learned about and written Haiku, Diamante and limericks so far.  We will be writing many more poems, and learning more about rhyming schemes, rhy