Learning About Aboriginal People's Use of Plants

On Thursday, we didn't just have one presentation about Aboriginal culture and tradition, we had two.  Our second visitor was Ms. V.  We first met Ms. V. back in January when she told us about how the First Nations people used cedar in the past and present.  Today we learned about how First Nations People use (and used) plants.  We learned about several different types of plants that can be eaten for food and nutrition.  We learned about wild mushrooms although we know we must never eat mushrooms we find growing unless we speak with an adult first.  We learned about berries and nuts too.

Ms. V told us a lot of interesting stories about how plants are used for survival.  When she was finished sharing with us we each drew pictures of some of the plants we learned about.  Here are some pictures of us hard at work.  If you check out our blogs posts from March  5th under the category socials or science you should find some of our final products and hear us talk about them.

It was great to learn with Ms. V again.  

(Pst... did you notice in one of the pictures above two round tables are pushed together to form an eight? Sometimes so many of us want to work together that we turn our circle tables into crazy eight tables.  Thursday was one of those days.   )

Learning About Aboriginal Activities

Today we learned about aboriginal activities.  Did you know three types of people fall under the category of aboriginal people.  They are First Nations, Inuit, and Metis.  Our guest is First Nations from the Katzie people.  The Katzie people are known for their fishing skills.

We learned that a long time ago there were only two vegetables onions and potatoes. We learned a bit more about cedar.

Below is a picture of a cedar net that was used to catch fish.

Many of us blogged about what we learned.  You can read more on our student blogs under the category of socials.

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

Today after recess we worked in small groups to practice our own version of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

After lunch we performed our plays for our classmates. Ms. Lirenman was impressed with what we put together in such a short time.  Here are some photos of us performing.

Do you know what type of bug this is?

One of our classmates brought this bug to school today. We looked at it and tried to figure out what kind of but it is but we couldn't.  We have asked friends on Twitter and researched the answers they suggested but none of them matched. Maybe you can help us out?

An Expert Project - Minecraft

Today we had another class expert share what they are passionate about.  This student is passionate about Minecraft, and he's very good at it too.  He shared some of the creations he's made, showed us how to build in Minecraft and answered our questions.  We were all pretty excited to see what he was showing us.  Some of us love playing with Minecraft too.  If you check out our individual blogs today you'll see that many of us were very impressed with what our friend showed us. Here are some pictures.

Who will be our next class expert?

Mystery Number With Our Big Buddies

We've played a lot of Mystery Number via Skype with other classes around North America.  If case you have forgotten,  with Mystery Number Skype each class has a secret (mystery) number and the other class asks yes or no questions until they can guess the number.  It's been a while since we've skyped with other classes to play so we decided we'd play with our big buddies instead.  As you can see by the photos we used our iPads and a 100 chart to cross out numbers as we asked our questions.  It was great to play Mystery Number with our big buddies because it allowed us to all play at our just right level.  We love learning with our big buddies. Have you ever played Mystery Number with your big buddies? If you haven't you should give it a try.

Jobs in Our Community - Software Developer Steve from Openroad.ca

On Thursday via Google Hangout we learned from Steve at Openroad.ca.  Open Road builds websites and video games and a whole bunch of other computer things.  Steve is a software developer.  He told us  about what he does.  He has to learn different computer languages so that he can tell computers how to act when people push buttons or click on things.    We learned that his company designed the new Pokemon.com website that was recently launched.  His company was also involved with creating NHL 2009, Skate, and Need for Speed.  We are very thankful that Steve took the time to teach us about his job.  Maybe you want to video conference into our classroom and teach us about your job?