Geodesic dome

We made a geodesic dome out of newspaper. A geodesic dome is a structure like half of the giant golf ball at Epcot center.  We rolled newpaper to make tubes and cut them to two sizes 63 cm and 71 cm.  We then stapled them together in a pattern like triangles and stars.  The joints got to fat so we had to start taping.  We had to put a broom in the middle to hold it up.  We accidently made the base to big and had to add a few more rolls. We had to put lots of tape on the joints to make them strong and look for week tubes and taped them to make them stronger.  It was hard but fun!!!

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Grade 3-4 J

Welcome back!

We are off to a great start with our new school year.  We have many new faces in 3-4 J this year, here is a video of all of them and their favourite summer memory!!

 

Fossils

Fossils are made from old things that lived a long, long time ago. We made them from yucky stuff and put a sea shell, leaf, or a twig in a cup. Then we let them dry for a day. Then we tried to get the object out of the cup. But only some of us got the object out. The people that didn’t get it out had to wait a day until Mrs. Johnston finally got it out. When it was done we put more yucky stuff in it and waited another day to dry it. Then we got the 2 kinds of fossils apart. We had lots of fun.

By: Stanton and Chloe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Oreo Dunking

Oreo duNking is when they give you a bowl and then they first put milk in the bowl, then they put Oreos in it, and then they let us start eating the Oreos, and dunk the milk. Hear are the people that did the Oreo dunking in

Gr 3-4 so hear are the people that did it, Zach.s, Mikayla, Robert, Molly, Elaina, Tinyed. The winner was robert, robert got a bag that looks like a soccer ball, and it said never stop milk, and the messiest was Zach.s, and Mrs.Johnston took a video of us.

By Zach and Mikayla

3-4 J Rocks

Today we are studying rocks and minerals.

Rebecca’s grandparents came to tell us more about rocks and minerals. There were stations. One of the stations were when you hade to take a ceramic plates and take any kind of rock and scratch it to see what kind of streak it made. We had a station that you had to see if the rock was Limestone. If it was Limestone it would bubble. Another station was is when you take a magnefine glass and see all the different types of minerals in the rocks. Rebecca’s grandma came around and showed every body real gold.

And there was this rock that if you sit on it it will break into little tiny pieces. There also was a station that it was carved into cool shapes so that it turned into necklaces.

There was a station that you could see all kinds of different medicines. Most of the rocks were called igneous, metamorphic, sandstone, and limestone. We learned that sandstone comes in layers. There is also a station that you check the hardness of the rock. If you tried scratching a crystal it wouldn’t leave a scratch. Some rocks were geode.

Rebecca’s grandparents have lots of rocks in there sheds and there basement. They found the rocks in a tunnel.

We hope you enjoyed reading this blog.

By for now.

By: Justin and Meadow

If We Were the Lorax….

If we were the Lorax we would make lows about cutting down Truffala  trees.  We would put the Onceler in jail. We will compost fruit and vegetable leftovers.  I we will RUDUCE our garbage.  We will plant trees and plants,  We will REUSE things like water bottles, and don’t litter.   It’s good if you don’t.      

By:  Sjusen and Tieller

This is Mrs.Johnstons 3-4 class Arctic centers

 

One of the Arctic centers is called Arctic food some of the food is Narwhale, caribou, and berries, and that food is for then. Some of the food that is for now is pizza, bread, fruit, chicken, fish and more. The next center was modern houses and we painted them all different colors. Another center we did was Inuit people now and-then then the clothing in the past is caribou skin and today is material. One type of work in the past was hunting and today, one job is a teacher. In the past there homes were igloos and today homes were a home with stilts. In the past heat and light was a oil lamp and today’s heat and light is electricity. In the past they

traveled with a dog sled and today we traveled with an air plane. Another center is called Inuit language the common language of the Inuit in Inuktitut. Another center was called Inuit clothing. Almost the whole class had to wear a amauti. We learned about Inuit transportatation.

By:  Rebecca, Nico and Vikki