The Biggest Shadow on Earth

Using their newly acquired knowledge of shadows, the girls in 1A recently hypothesized about what the biggest shadow on earth is. 

Erica, Sae, On, Jueun, and Hanna all thought the biggest shadow was a country, continent or the world itself.

Ellen, Rika, Rina, Tejal, and Mio all thought an animal was the source of the biggest shadow on earth.

Kaede, Mirai, Katlego, Jian, Rio, Saadatu, Himeka, and Shrisha all had some very interesting ideas about what the biggest shadow could be.

Do you know what the biggest shadow on earth is? 

Leave us a comment below with your thoughts.

Learning About Sound Through Instruments

There are instruments all around us in the Activity Room.  Students have opportunities to play maracas, tambourines, finger cymbals, drums, and more!  To learn more about the instruments in our Carol Night song Zumba Zumba!, Grade One took a short trip to the Music Room.  There they discovered all of instruments they had been wondering about.

Zumba, Zumba! 

Zumba, Zumba!  Strike the cymbal.

Zumba, Zumba!  Strike the gong.

Zumba, Zumba!  Beat the timbal 

and the tambourine and drum.

 Playing the gong

Playing the timbal / timpani

Feeling the vibrations of the timbal/ timpani and cymbals

Listen to what we heard in the Music Room

Inquiring into reflection

Wow, how exciting! Today we went into the dark room to investigate what would happen in low level light when we wear a black or white t-shirt.

We discovered that the children wearing black t-shirts disappeared!!! The children wearing white t-shirts were visible because the little bit of light that was there was reflecting off their t-shirts.

Ask your daughter to tell you where she was standing in the photos!!!

The funny blue colour is actually the white shirts reflecting light. We used a special blue light that gives low level light! 

Believe it or not but there are actually girls standing next to the girls with white t-shirts who are not reflecting any light.

Look at Yua's hair. Why can't we see it? !!!!!!!

Inquiring into Light & Sound

For the last few weeks, the girls in Grade 1 have been busy learning the scientific method, and using it to conduct some very interesting light and sound investigations.

Ellen, Katlego and Saadatu investigate how light can be changed

Kaede discovers how light travels

Tejal and Rika experiment with different materials

1A out on a sound hunt

Kaede and Mirai busy observing and recording different sources of sound

Rio and Jian hard at work, recording the sounds they hear

Halloween Party

We would like to thank all the parents who helped organize and host our Halloween Parties today. The girls had a fabulous time and made some wonderful memories. We would also like to thank Mr. E in Grade 2, for taking time away from his Halloween Party to help us with our trick-or-treat parade. During the parade we encountered a lot of different characters. We saw ghosts, princesses, storybook characters, and mermaids, but our favourite character was by far, the Joker.