Hour of Code

This week Team Couloir students spent some time coding as part of the intitiative 'Hour of Code'. Please ask your child to show you what they have been learning. There are some great videos on code.org that you might enjoy as well.

Trimester party!

Visit To Mills River

On Wednesday, the beautiful weather provided us with an opportunity to visit Mills River Park. While at the park, we used our learning from our ecosystems unit and observed the interactions of biotic and abiotic factors in their natural element.

Visit to The Audubon

Today, Team Couloir students learned to orient a map and use a compass with a map to navigate an orienteering course at the Audubon Center. Thank you to our chaperones; Alison Surks, Jessica Dion, Wendy Tomlinson, Carol Sullivan and Daphne Tanis. Be sure to ask your child tonight about 'Fred in the shed'.

Design Challenge During Theme Time

During 'Theme Time ' today, students worked in small groups on two different 'Design Tech' challenges. 1) paper tower challenge, 2) the slowest marble. Please be sure to ask your child about both of these great activities.

Mystery Skype

Today Team Couloir took part in a mystery Skype. This is where we ask Yes/no questions to an unknown, 'mystery', classroom in an effort to determine where they are from and vice versa. Some questions our class asked: 'are you East of the Prime Meridian?', 'do you have Cacti for plants?' 'Do you live near the Atlantic Ocean?', 'are you land locked?'. The class we worked with was from Mississippi.

A Conversation About Bullying and Harrassment

This morning Mr. Martin(guidance) and Mr. Hamilton visited us during CPR to define both Bulłying and Harrassment. The strategy of 'HAHASO' was introduced. Please be sure to ask your child what this stands for. 

CPR With Mr Lee-Teaching Teamwork!