We had a beautiful day at Rounds Ranch yesterday. We had a chance to milk a pretend cow and pet and feed the farm animals. We had a picnic in the pavilion, played in the sandbox, road the barnyard boxcar and the pedal cart race, climbed the tire pyramid and horses and pumped the water for duck races. We slid down small and big slides and some of us tried the zipline as well. Thank you to all our volunteers who helped out on our trip.

Last week, we had our jump rope for heart event. We rotated through many fun stations run by our grade 7/8 leaders. We skipped with small ropes, double ropes, played snakey snakey, helicopter, ran the bases, parachute with skipping rope snakes, scooter race through a skipping rope track, obstacle course, soccer and hoola hoops. Did we reach our school goal of raising $4000? We will have to wait and see!

Students who walked to school on Wednesday received a green ribbon from some South Simcoe Police for “Walk to School Wednesday”. This is to encourage parents and students to leave the car at home and walk, bicycle, skateboard, rollerblade or scooter to school. This encourages kids to get active and reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Check out some of our walkers at Fieldcrest.

Exploring capacity such as playing in a sandbox with cups or bowls in the bathtub or playing with rice, beans or whatever you have are all math. We explored different sized containers and talked about which would hold the most water and put them in order (smallest to largest). We learned about capacity and practiced our estimating skills at the same time as we filled a container with cubes. We were asked “How many cubes do you think your container will hold?” and then “Check if you are right”.

We celebrated Secretary’s Day and thanked Ms. Pizel, Mrs. Hunter and Mrs. Trimis for all they do here at Fieldcrest. “Thank you for the band-aids and the ice.” “Thank you for bringing us our forgotten mittens or lunch”. “Thank you for doing the announcements”. We also just found out Ms. Pizel is leaving Fieldcrest. She has been a familiar face in our school office for 14 years. Wishing Ms. Pizel all the best in her new position. She will always be a Falcon!