P.E., Fine Arts, (and lots of other related awesomeness) Term 3

If our activities in Term 3 had a theme this year, it would be: variety! We both have been swimming, doing inline skating classes (sorry no pictures)

hiking and beach combing

we also practised our engineering skills by building beach forts

...got to try kayaking for the first time!

Sophia is already signed up for another kayaking course this summer!

hone those Grade 5 science skills about "force" with some extreme high wind kite flying (ask Sophia to tell you about lift and gravity:)

monkey around, run, climb and play,

Skateboard,

this term we all got new bikes, and have been able to go riding together! Sophia and her Dad even did a tandem bike ride around Stanley Park!

Eleanor and Ittle went bowling, and we've signed up for the Kids Bowl Free program this summer!

Eleanor rocks some fine arts skills with paper jewellery for Ittle.

She's also done fabric painting and collage, designing and sewing a skirt, and drawing this term, Sophia has done with water colours, model building, sketching and drawing.

Sophia and Eleanor both spent a day at the art gallery with their godmother, who is an artist, studying works and sketching. Sophia has been particularly interested in studying the work of M.C. Escher this term.

Sophia and Eleanor both went to camp this term, and spent time hiking and studying nature, learning about mapping and orienteering, outdoor cooking and fire safety, and new songs and games,

These are the worksheets from Eleanor's "which way" badge, learning about reading maps, compass and directions.

Eleanor has over 20 badges now!

Sophia has obtained her "B active" card from the City Of Burnaby. It gives her free swimming and skating and access to many other free activities for her grade 5 year. She very much wanted to go swimming alone, so we planned her route and did the research on which bus stops she needed to take, and what she would do in an emergency.

She not only had a great time swimming, but navigated her way home beautifully, asking for help from staff at the pool and from local business people when she needed help to call home or figure out what to do. Way to go, Sophia!

Nature Walks and Forces and Motion!!! by $ophia

This term we have been going on nature walks, usually around our neighbourhood, and once we did one on Burnaby Mountain.

Trying to make fall!

 When we were on Burnaby Mountain, we explored the frost and how we affect it when we do different things.

When we went to the swings we learned about air resistance, one of the forces of nature.

I made this cute little "Sophie Da Vinci" video you can see above about air resistance and how I could feel it pushing down on me when I was one the swings.

When we go on our walks, sometimes we see something very interesting... ANIMAL PRINTS!

Spotting racoon tracks

Like racoon prints, dog prints, deer prints, cat prints, and one time a BALLERINA-A-SAURUS! Actually it was just me and Eleanor doing twirls in the wet gravel in Pax's soccer field. But we imagined it was dinosaur that liked to do ballet and we created a whole story about a ballerina-a-saurus trying to destroy a McDonald's.

The tracks of a ballerina-a-saurus

Reading about the Japanese Aboriginal Totem Poles on Burnaby Mountain - yay Social Studies!!!!

Actual dog tracks

Also when we were on Burnaby Mountain we looked at the fog and also some of the weather patterns that have been going on. Eleanor was noticing for Grade 2 science the water and air and earth stuff.

On a nature walk at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody, we spied a jelly fish!

We were exploring the wonder of magnets. This shows Eleanor using a magnet to pick up iron filings, and me and Eleanor crazily pointing at a home-made compass we made with a magnetized sewing

needle.