In September our grade 4/5 class adopted a Map Turtle hatchling, who was only a couple weeks old. A'nowara, our baby turtles name, was the size of a dollar when we first got him, but he has now grown to be the size of a human hand! We have had to expand A'nowara's food range, and have been growing our own water plants for his food. We started with about 10 of each small plant in...
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 Strawberries! Over the winter months in Sokcho, strawberries are a common, delicious fruit that we can enjoy on the cold winter months. The strawberries are grown in green houses and are very large and delicious. The grade 4/5 class started growing four strawberry plants in our classroom window, using plastic wrap and a heat lamp! We are happy to say we have had a small but successful batch of... SIS Canada - Sokcho
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 To finish learning about the weather, we created our own weather station. We made our station out of arts and craft supplies including cups, wooden dowels, aluminum foil, and hammers and nails. In our weather station, we have made an anemometer, a wind vane, a rain gauge, a thermometer and hygrometer. Every day we visit our weather station and record the days weather. We then use our data to... SIS Canada - Sokcho
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 Every year, in April, our class does a special school clean-up for four days. One partner picks up the garbage and the other partner writes down what type of garbage it is, on a data collection sheet. Each student gets 2 turns to pick up garbage and 2 turns to record data. We clean all around the schoolyards and in the park playground. The students count up their data and we add all of the... Nestor Elementary - Coquitlam
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 Three classes of students participated in the "Daffodil is a Promise", BC Min of Agriculture program. Each student helped to plant one or more daffodils around the school and in the courtyard. We learned about the daffodil life cycle and cut open a bulb to look inside. We made sketches and wrote about our daffodils. Our school looked so bright and cheery in the Spring, when the... Nestor Elementary - Coquitlam
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 Our class raises Mason Bees to help with early Spring pollination. In the Fall, we open our Mason Bee "paper straws" to remove and clean the cocoons. They are put in a fridge for the winter, in a special "humidity container". In the Spring we put the cocoons into our Mason Bee house. This year we were given a beautiful new house by our local "Bee Man",... Nestor Elementary - Coquitlam
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 To complete our exploration on Wind, the Grade 4/5 class went for a whole day field trip to explore a wind farm on a mountain side near Yongdae-Ri, South Korea. It was a very windy day, so we got to see the wind turbines in action and were able to explore the mountainside that they are perched on and where the whole process from the wind turbines collect the wind and turn the generator to the... SIS Canada - Sokcho
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 Grades 4/5 are continuing to learn about the different aspects to weather through studying rain! We have so far learnt about how clouds are formed, how much water clouds can hold, the different types of clouds and now we are learning about how to collect and measure rainfall. The students made their own rain gauge by cutting a 1-liter bottle and inverting the top into the bottom. The... SIS Canada - Sokcho
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 Grades 2-5 celebrated Earth Day by cleaning up the walk to our favourite playground! We took garbage bags and gloves and collected 5 full bags of garbage in an attempt to clean up our local neighbourhood. SIS Canada - Sokcho
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 Grades 2-5 are celebrating spring's arrival in Sokcho by making traditional flower lanterns. The students spent many hours folding all the leaves and then beginning the process of gluing all the leaves to their flower base. The end effect was a beautifully lit up classroom of lanterns! SIS Canada - Sokcho
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