Week 22!

This week we had lots of fun growing brains about the Winter Olympics!

We started out recording our medal wins on Monday morning then tracked our medal gains as the week went on.  We were very proud of our Olympic athletes! We discovered that the CBC Olympic website was actually quicker at updating the medal count than the Official Canadian Olympic Team websiteOfficial Canadian Olympic Team website.

We learned about the host city Sochi in Russia.

We wrote about what we learned.

It took a lot of hard work to learn about the Winter Olympics.

Our centres this week focused on the Winter Olympics.  

We used the Chromebooks to research a Canadian Olympic athlete competing in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.  We used the  Official Canadian Olympic Team website.

We're not all finished our project but next week I should be able to post a picture of our completed research projects.

For our Daily Physical Activity this week we competed in our own olympic events.  Curling was our first event.

Our next event was skating,

then we competed in a biathlon,

but hitting the target after skiing across the gym was tiring. 

We also did the skeleton event.

After learning about all these Olympic events the students decided to create their own olympic events.

In math we used data from tables,

 schedules,

 and graphs to answer questions about past Winter Olympics.

On Friday, we watched a little of the semi-final men's hockey game, Canada vs. USA when we saw the Canadian men win 1-0.  We all cheered and celebrated at the final buzzer! 

We squeezed in our Banana Split math to earn our sprinkles.  We only have our cherry and spoon still to earn then we can celebrate!

We also found time for our first team to help work on our igloo.  

These ladies worked very hard.

Here is the progress we've made so far.