Pickle Podcast - EP 2 "Year End"

The students who created the Pickle Podcast ending things off with another episode. It is about wrapping up the school year by reflecting on our learning.

Pickle Podcast - EP 2: Year End Reflections

Pickle Podcast - EP1 "Life in VR"

Two grade 5 students decided it was time for them to create a podcast and they wanted the first episode to be about the work we have been doing with virtual reality. Mr. Chidiac helped put it all together and produced the episode. Episode 2 will be about the last week of school and they students will learn more about the production aspects of the podcast. Enjoy!!

The Pickle Podcast - EP 1

Language via the HP Sprout

Two grade 5 students are using the HP Sprout to create a story. They are working on creating an invitation to a picnic (collage) which will turn into a story.

Using the Sprout for Language

Probability - Coin Flip

We used this prompt (via Matthew Oldridge) to kick off our study of Probability.

Here are some of the thoughts the students had about it:

Probability - Coin Flip

Life Systems - Human Body

The grade 5 students are learning about the Human Body. Many of them are researching an illness and how it affects the human body. One of them wanted to talk about her work. Here is the audio:

Type 1 Diabetes

Canada's 150th Birthday - 3D Monuments/Statues

The grade 4/5 students have been working with Ms. Butson's grade 7 class to collaborate and create a statue/monument for Canada's 150th Birthday. Aside from bringing the two groups together to participate in designing 3D printed monuments/statues, they are working on their spatial reasoning using Tinkercad to design their creations. It is also great to see the grade 7's being natural leaders as they work with the grade 4's and watching the grade 4's lead with respect to the 3D technology that they have been using this school year. Here is some audio of their thinking so far.

Canadian 150th Birthday Artifact 1

Canadian 150th Birthday Artifact 2

Virtual Visit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa

Today the grade 5 students visited Parliament Hill in Ottawa. They have been learning about Government and Citizenship. Listen to hear what they had to say about their time in the House of Commons, Library of Parliament, and the Prime Minister's Office.

House of Commons

Library of Parliament

Prime Minister's Office

Spatial Reasoning

Students share their thinking about a spatial reasoning activity that was done independently. They had a graphic organizer and a pencil to complete the task.

Spatial Reasoning Work 1

Spatial Reasoning Work 2

Spatial Reasoning Work 3

Social Studies and Virtual Reality

We have started integrating virtual reality into our Social Studies learning. The students are learning about early civilizations and using the mobile devices and VR viewers to go on virtual field trips to places that are connected to their learning. Here is some audio about it:

Greece - Acropolis Museum

Peru - Machu Picchu

Social Studies and 3D Printing

The Grade 4 students are creating digital museums about ancient civilizations. One of the components of their project is to create and print a 3D artifact that is connected to their learning. Listen in to one of our students talk about what she is creating.

Social Studies Artifact Audio 

Some video of the Owl being created.

The finished artifact.

Measurement (Linear)

We are currently working on Linear Measurement and the students had lots to say! Listen in and hear what they had to say about what they were doing and the learning they were engaged in.

Measurement Audio 1

Measurement Audio 2

Measurement Audio 3

New Work Flow

In our first post we wrote about our work flow and how we would be recording audio and then sharing it out. Recently, the students were engaged in discussion and instead of interrupting their talk I simply recorded their audio on my mobile device. I then took that audio and sent it to my Google Drive. We are thinking that this is the way we will record audio when we are in the middle of something that is not to be interrupted. The next iteration of this process would be to have students use their mobile devices to capture their thoughts/ideas/reflections, share the audio to their Google Drive and then share the audio file with me.

Visualization - Perfect Snow

We had a read a loud in class today but didn't get to see the illustrations in the book. It was a visualization activity where we would use our mind's eye to create our own illustrations! Two students were keen to talk about the process and their understanding after Mr. Chidiac read the book to us. Here is the audio.

Here is the video:

Black History Month - Rosa Parks

February is Black History month. One of our classmates brought in a book about Rosa Parks. The teacher read it to the class and then asked some of us to share our thoughts about it.

Here is our Podcast.

Here is the YouTube:

Leadership Opportunity

Last week a few of our students got together with some Grade 7's from Ms. Butson's class. They worked on writing a Speak Up grant to get funding to buy VR Goggles to assist them in their learning.

Here is the Podcast about their experience working with the Grade 7's.