Pi Day

Thank you for all of the contributions to Pi Day! We had a wonderful celebration.

We had a great day today! We began with skating at Cairn's Arena. While there, students performed the skits they had planned, demonstrating Newton's Three Laws. We then went to Fleming Museum and learned about the Native American Exhibit and worked on a small art project, Thank you to the many chaperon's who were very supportive(literally); Rebecca Flewelling, Kelley Newell-Rentz, Nikki Yandow, Allison Surks, Carol Sullivan Scott Brown, Tim Brisbin, Lisa Magnuson, Elisa Polli, Jena Medina, Jessica Adams and Robyn Mundell.

Calculating Speed(and Sledding!)

Last week the new snow brought us a great opportunity to take our science learning outside. At Mills River we used the student driven question, 'will a sled with more mass go faster than one with less mass?' to 'drive' our learning. Students will work this week to put the data on Google sheets, create a graph and draw a conclusion based on the evidence they gathered. Fun was had by all!

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.