Black Holes

Our Project on Black Holes

More Math - we love math!

 Using the Golden Beads for addition

 Using the Stamp Game to do subtraction

Dividing with Lego pieces

Designing the DeathStar as Lucas's apartment

Playing in the Photobooth

Legomania!

This was the Digivations class I went to.  It was really fun!  We learned about pollution, NASA, types of energy, rockets, robots using lots of LEGO.

 Lucas shooting off his rocket

 Learning to program the sensor on the airplane

 Testing....

 Yeah! The propeller is moving according to the programming.

Lucas's creations.

Math Monday today!

 Lucas is working on division with Golden Bead materials - "It was hard and fun!"

Olivia was working with the pegboard figuring out multiples of 3 up to 100.  " It was fun and a little bit hard."

Mad Scientists

We did some fun experiments today.  They were about formation of stars, attraction of particles, viscosity of liquids and the effect of temperature on states of matter.  I liked washing the dishes for clean up (Lucas).  What was really neat was watching the kids observe firsthand some of the ideas of what happened when the Universe formed.  For example, the other day, we read through "A Recipe for a Star"  and during the experiments, they were able to reference what they read to what was happening.

Grammar

What function do these words serve?

Halloween

We did so many things for Halloween week!  We visited two pumpkin patches, a couple of corn mazes, visited a haunted house, tried on costumes at Superstore, did pumpkin math - estimating, measuring and weighing our pumpkins, carved pumpkins, roasted the seeds, made pumpkin soup and baked yummy pumpkin cookies

Picking a pumpkin

Trying on masks

Dancing with Frankenstein

Beaching it

Wouldn't it be amazing to play in the sand at all the beaches in the Lower Mainland?  Well we have three under our belt this fall.

Crescent Beach

Cultus Lake

Kits Beach

Geometry

Lucas working with the geometry stick box - constructing different types of triangles.

Here is Olivia laying out and labeling the six drawers of the geometric cabinet.  

Lucas exploring the qualities of the geometric solids.  After he determines what type of base, how many faces, how many edges and whether they roll, he builds his amazing structure!

Welcome!

Welcome to the learning adventures of Lucas and Olivia!  We'll keep you updated on what we're learning and the places we go.