Do babies remember things? By Millie

So last week our reporter, Anita, (who interviewed us in the newspaper) brought in her 7month year old, Nisha!

We decided to do some science experiments on Nisha. Not the the ones like poring a bunch of chemicals on her, but some mental experiments.

We wanted to know if babies remember things. Do you remember stuff from when you were a baby?

To do that, Anita brought some of Nisha's favourite toys. She also brought a blanket. 

Our plan was to put the toy in front of Nisha, have her crawl toward it, and the hide it under the blanket to see if she remembered that the toy was there. 

Ok, so this is what happened. 

Nisha did not have a nap that morning, so she was a bit grumpy, but not that much. We set the toy out in front of Nisha. She started crawling toward it, but she got so distracted by all of us around her, she started crawling toward us! Some of us moved out of the way. We tried it again, and Nisha crawled toward it again. We covered it up with the blanket and she kinda looked around with this facial expression: 

So, I don't really think babies remember things when they are about 7 months old, because I don't remember anything when I was that age. And also, Nisha didn't seem to remember what was there. 

By Millie 

A Paramedic Met a Degu When Nils Fainted

Last week, we had two paramedics in our classroom. We'll post more about the story later (unless the student involved wants to leave the story as a comment and I'll add to this post!). They'd never heard of degus and thought we made them up.

One of them was so interested in the boys that he had a little snuggle with him!

After they helped in our classroom, they were given Project Thank you cards and have already started to spread them!

When Nils Fainted - by Nils
First I went to hold a Degu then it bit me and I started bleeding so went to the sink and started to wash my finger and then I started to feel a little dizzy and after about half a minute I was lying on the floor and Shauna woke me up and got me a pillow to lie on. Then the paramedics came and checked me out they got project thank-you cards and one of them held a Degu then I went to my family doctor and said I looked good. Then I went home and had a little rest.

Now, it's 5 days later, and Nils feels totally normal! Thank goodness!

The class stayed very calm and collected even though it was a stressful situation. We were mindful and made sure that, despite our amygdalas firing off, we stayed mindful and used our pre-frontal cortexes to deal with the issue calmly.

Core survey

Some people from core (Nepean high school corse) came in to are class to do a survey to see if kids values change by age

More about scuba diving

      

     

 This is are manta rays

The Portuguese man of war is so dangers if you get stung you don't put pee on it like a jellyfish and don't put fresh water on your sting put vinegar on it .

Bye for now

Bye Kaleigh 

Shauna's cousins a scuba diver!

She is teaching us about sharks and fish she is teaching us awesome facts about sharks it is so fun and it is a great show! We finished are awesome fish now we are naming it Fishiocus dancucuse with a underline under the name it was created in room 209. Sharks have bin around for 250.000 million years ago where the Dino's where still alive and they where perfect. We are looking at sharks back then on google images they look so weird. We are look at a Japan shark it looks like slime now we are looking at extinct species like tephopods. We are looking at lung fish looking at amphibians they look awesome to me but to shauna it looks gross. There are lots of fish in the carrabien Looking at manta rays. Looking at water animals and whales have hairs all over there body looking at awesome jelly fish. Jelly fish have really high a electric volts. We are looking at nurse shark body parts. Bye and sighing off with your host

-THOMAS SARKOZY!

Shauna's cousin Lauren is a scuba diver By Kaleigh

    She is a scuba diver and she is showing us how the fish's and sharks work she teaches people how scuba dive it's so cool and she told us that the hammerhead sharks  the head is all the nerves in the head and when they hear your heartbeat they would be scared because it's like nothing they heard before. that picture is what ever we want update on the picture we named it fishicus danceicus  Rm209.

Bye for now 

By Kaleigh

 

Science and Engineering: Building Bridges

 Our grade 5s got to work with Natalie's grade 5s and a Science student from the University of Ottawa to learn about Forces Acting on Structures.

 Students worked in small groups to create the most sturdy structures possible.

Science with Linda - by Thomas

We are learning about matter with Linda it is fun. We are learning so much from Linda. Looking at the periodic table there are 118 elements.

#scientistsinschools

-by Thomas

Scientists in the Schools- Forces and Structures with Toni! - by Millie

Today we are doing Scientists in the School with Toni! She is teaching us about forces and structures! We are about to be building a structure out of straws and tape. Right now we are brainstorming for ideas of what we are going to build.

Steve's Visit - by Hunter

Steve (Millie's dad) makes Adobe after Effects and teaching us about visual effects.Like when you make something that is not actually there.Now he's teaching us about motion graphics when you make something that is not there for real and make it move.Its All really cool and we are the first class to see the new adobe after effects logo!

-Hunter

We even got to write our own Annoying Orange scripts and Steve will be putting them together into a video for us! We'll post them here soon!

Drumming and Dancing with Kathy Armstrong

Laurie's Second Guatemala Presentation

The much anticipated hearing aid fitting presentation video above was filmed by Jackson. The Digital Degus got a big kick out of watching my mom fit me with a hearing aid mold like she did to patients in Guatemala. I particularly enjoy Thomas' face as he carefully works on getting the mixture consistent!

Luv2Groove Day 3

Check out the Luv2Groove website! They run camps over the March Break and summer holidays, and they have a blog, too!

Luv2Groove Day 2