Outdoor Classroom Continued

April 11, 2019 - The class took a look around the playground to see the differences from our last Outdoor Classroom session. The only snow left was on the north side of the row of trees and there was lots of water on the east side of the playground. 

We noticed some garbage that had been hidden under the snow so we picked up what we could today. 

April 24, 2019 - What a difference 13 days later!  We didn't need coats or mitts today!  The snow and water were gone.  We had a chance to get to the rest of the garbage that was in the wet spots and put it where it belongs.

We also took our Outdoor Classroom Journals with us to record things we notice with 4 senses: seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling.  No tasting outside today!

Epson Short Throw Projector - new technology!

At the end of January this year, our Smartboard abruptly stopped working! You can read the blog post here from when it was new, four and a half years ago.  We tried all the usual technology tricks to get it going again - restart everything, unplug it and plug it back in and new cords but nothing worked.  It actually still worked great to project the picture and sound from the teacher laptop but the pen and interactive functions had stopped working.   

This week, the Maintenance Crew from Fort La Bosse came to change it to an Epson Brightlink 695wi Short Throw Interactive projector and a new whiteboard to display it.   

The main difference we noticed right away is that the pen needs to be used to drag, write and erase when we used our fingers before. (Unless it has a way to do that which we haven't discovered yet!) 

Happy Easter

Some of the Grade Two Art and views this week: