Mme Quinney's Room: Études sociales

Grade 3 students this week learned about the process of boiling down maple sap until it turns to syrup.  The response activity was to draw and write about one facet of the process.

"Grande aventure du Haut-Canada": Jeu en français!

"Grande aventure du Haut-Canada", on the Sydenham Discovery site, is an interactive game that lets students explore pioneer life in Upper Canada:

http://sydenhamdiscovery.ca/francais/game.asp

Grade 3 Ontario Pioneers Online Resource

There is a website with resources that help students and parents understand pioneer/colony life in the 1700s and 1800s:

http://vlc.ucdsb.ca/content.php?pid=341675&sid=4732570

"Pi Day" - March 14, 2015

Saturday is Pi Day:  3.14.15.  Extend it further and Pi Hour occurs at 9:26 a.m.:  3.1415926.

Pi... that mysterious number between 3 and 4.  It won't happen again until 2115.  C'est la vie!

Art in Mme Arbour's Class

These photos were taken during Arts class in Mme Arbour's room on March 11, 2015:

C'est le temps des sucres! - The sugaring-off is almost here!

March Break is coming and what better time to partake in the most Canadian of traditions:  the sugaring-off!  Let yourself savour the flavour.

In French it is "le temps des sucres" and the whole evaporation process takes place in the "cabane à sucre".  The end product is "le sirop d'érable".  Locally owned, locally made, the only ingredient is tree sap. It can be used to sweeten anything and everything.

'The First Nations shared their knowledge of cooking down maple sap with the first French settlers who arrived in the 1600s.

http://www.globurban.com/maplestuff.html

http://www.ontariomaple.com/pages/southwestern_ontario/

It might be best to call the farm before driving out.

Grades 4 and 5 during Social Studies: «Ici on s'amuse!»