While we were away from school for our Autumn Break our latest science activity was still in progress. Before leaving school after our Feast Day, Primary Full Day students measured, poured and dissolved sugar and salt into separate containers of water, carefully marking them with the name of each crystallized substance. These solutions were left open to the air to evaporate during our time away from school.
The Upper Elementary Class celebrated National STEAM Day with a fun Engineering project. Teams built weight-bearing structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows!
That was just one of the ideas from the story Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty. Students in Kindergarten - 6th grade listened to the story of Iggy during this week's STEAM classes. Afterwards the children used their math and engineering skills to plan and build structures with only toothpicks and Play Doh.
One lesson focused on wind where the students learned how an anemometer is an instrument that measures the speed the wind. The students did an experiment to see how many puffs it took them to blow a cotton ball from one line to the next. They had to make a hypothesis before the experiment began. [...]
The PreKindergarten class has been learning about apples during the month of September. They learned about the life cycle of an apple, the different kinds of apples. They also visited Frecon Orchard to learn more about apple trees and to pick apples.
