ATTENTION ALL PARENTS IN MS. MCDONALD'S CLASS-- our class is so excited for an amazing experience coming up! I am beginning to take names for parent volunteers who would like to join us for 1 day or all 5 days at our  Campus Calgary Open Minds program at the STEM Lab at the University of Calgary! Please email Mrs. McDonald at snmcdonald@cbe.ab.ca as soon as possible with the dates you are able to help us with. We will require 4 volunteers for EACH day to make this field trip possible, CBE Volunteer Clearance is required. Students will depart from and arrive at ROS at the same bell times as normal.

We will be gone ALL DAY on the following dates:
Monday, February 26th, 9:10-3:50
Tuesday, February 27th, 9:10-3:50
Wednesday, February 28th, 9:10-3:50
Thursday, March 1st, 9:10-3:50
Friday, March 2nd, 9:10-12:50

Science- Hot and Cold Temperatures

Today in Science we reviewed what makes a water molecule!

We passed around cups that represented the 3 states of water: liquid, solid and gas. We used styrofoam balls to model how to the molecules move faster or slower depending on the temperature!

Liquid Water

Solid Water-ICE

Water Vapor-Gas

We noticed some differences between water liquid, water as a solid, and water as a gas:

What causes a solid to turn into a liquid??

What causes a liquid to turn into a gas??

We will be exploring these questions in greater detail next week.

Arctic Stories

We watched an Arctic Story called "The Owl and The Raven: An Inuit Legend

You can watch it again here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xhWWdGm8fE

We had to fill out our 'Parts of an Arctic Story' sheets about Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution, Magic and Finally what lesson was this Arctic Story teaching us? 

Why would this story have been important and told to Inuit Children generation after generation? What was the story explaining? Why did the author feel this story was important to tell?