Today Mr Cohen came in to class with a clew of worms (a clew is the collective noun for a group of worms…)

The students observed their worms and noted some of their characteristics and habits.

They then conducted a few simple experiments to see how the worms responded in different situations.

Half-covering their worm with a paper (tent) revealed that the worms tended to want to stay in the dark.

Placing a ice-pack at one end of a metal tray and placing their worm in the middle indicated that worms didn’t like the cold and wanted to move to the warmer side.

Thanks, Mr Cohen for coming in and helping us discover more about worms!

Last week students from grades 3-5 participated in our very first Potato Olympics.

Each student created a potato athlete and were then assigned one of the Commonwealth countries to represent.

On Friday they competed in the following events:

• Weight-lifiting – which potato is the heaviest?
• Bowling – which potato can knock over the most number of pins?
• Luge – which potato makes it through the luge course the quickest?
• Height – which potato is the tallest?
• Diving – which potato makes the biggest splash?
• Sprinting – which potato is the fastest at rolling down a ramp?

The students will use all the data gathered on the day to create graphs, calculate averages, and lots of other exciting Maths stuff!

Here is a video which captures the day…