Before Pictures

Yesterday, I had the first chance to get into my new room, since it's been cleaned. This year, I'll be teaching a combined 2/3 class. I'm really excited about the change and I have big plans for the year. The layout of the room will be completely different to my old classroom. As things take shape next week, I'll share more photos. Let's just say, it will be a funky and fun space set up for lot's of learning. Yipee!

Erin

P.S. If you know of someone in the Toronto area who has a fairly good sized carpet that's fairly clean and not being used - and - who wouldn't mind donating it to our class, please leave a comment. I'm hoping to have two carpeted learning areas.

Thanks.

To Change is to Survive: My Grade 4 Science Notebook

My best teacher was Miss Frew. She was my Grade 4 teacher at Allenby PS. I used to get into trouble occasionally for social talking, but we generally liked each other and I learned so much in her class. A few years ago, I ran into her and we got along very well. She was a cool teacher with a full social life and would always bring in brochures and pictures from exhibits and places she visited. We had so many hands-on learning experiences in her class. What a great role model now that I'm a teacher. My folks kept my Science notebook from that year. I loved that we called Science, Environmental Studies back then. I think we should return to that.
I can still remember all of these experiments. The one explained above was connected to viscosity. I remember stacking different liquids. Do they still make Mazola Oil?



I remember we had to learn how a refrigerator works. It was a bit complex for me.
I still managed to make a fairly detailed diagram. I love how she insisted that we use the Scientific Method and label all our diagrams.

Plants...

Prehistoric life...

How fossils were formed...

Thank you Miss Frew!