5th graders were honored to welcome Thomas McDowell, an American WW2 veteran, in relation with the History curriculum.

The fourth graders have started learning about energy transfers in science. They were able to use toy skateboards to demonstrate the effect that mass has when transferring kinetic energy. They documented and collected the data of the distances that the skateboards traveled when "transferring their energy" (ie crashing) and took the average to learn which collision had the greatest impact.

 

TW'HAIKU

- Quatre statues mangent / Femmes aux couleurs mélangées / Elles nous regardent

- Un papillon gris / Vole et imagine un monstre / Aux cornes pointues.

We have entered an online Haiku contest on Tw'Haiku . Since the beginning of March, we have been receiving one picture per week and we have created one haiku per week describing what we feel. 

We have shared our haikus with other schools via Edu Twit (a microblog dedicated to pedagogical purpose and to class). A Haiku is a three-lined poem, originally from Japan. 

You need to respect these rules to create one: the 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables each and the middle line has 7 syllables. It doesn't have to rhyme and it can speak about nature or seasons. 

This year, Elisabeth chose the theme of Art. First, Elisabeth read us Haikus written by adults and kids, like us. Then, each of us wrote our first Haiku by using a line bank of 5 and 7 syllables. We shared our poem with our classmates. Later, Elisabeth showed us a modern painting, we told her what we saw and felt while admiring this picture and she wrote it down on the white board. After, we created a haiku with the whole class. A week later, Elisabeth showed us a picture of a sand sculpture. First we wrote down our ideas, then we shared our ideas with a partner and worked in pairs to create a poem. Finally, we read our poems aloud to the class and we voted to select our favorite haiku. We can only post one haiku per class per week. Today, we worked on a picture of street art painting and we produced another Haiku with a different partner.  On Friday, we can check if our week's poem was liked by other schools.