#YYCLC Day 143: School work at lunch time

During recess and lunch our students use the Learning Commons to complete school projects, projects of interest or to try the various maker station challenges offered. These popsicle stick towers were built by students from grades 3 - 6. The tallest one was over 2m in height!

#YYCLC Day 142: White board tables to collaborate

These students are making use of one of our "whiteboard" tables to plan out a project. Since we opened the Learning Commons we are noticing more collaboration between students in all grade levels.

#YYCLC Day 141: Digital Citizenship and Research

These grade two students are working on their research skills for an animal project in their class. This group is working on their digital citizenship skills and learning how to use Comic Life to present the information they have discovered about their animals.

#YYCLC Day 140: Prototyping at Lunchtime

This is a prototype of an electric vehicle that our grade 5/6 students have been working on in Science. Several of the students used the Learning Commons space during lunch and recess to work on their prototypes.

#YYCLC Day 139: Aurasma to showcase work

A grade 5 student using the Aurasma App to show his mom his media presentation for social studies. Our grade five students have been working with Aurasma this year to create an augmented reality map to showcase their work.

#YYCLC Day 99: STOP Animation

These grade 3/4 students taught themselves to use our stop animation app on the iPad over two recess periods. They have since taught most of their peers how to use it too.

#YYCLC Day 98: Gmail Lesson

Two grade 2 students working together to send their very first e-mail to their teacher. In three short days these students have gone from never using the computer to being able to log on and off, access their G-mail accounts and send mail.

#YYCLC Day 97: Collaboration in Action

Students from grades 3, 4, 5, & 6 working together on a variety of projects during morning recess.

#YYCLC Day 96: Coding 101

Our grade 5/6 classes took part in the Hour of Code this year and proudly display their certificates of completion in our LC. This grade 4 student is now working through the tutorial so he can add his certificate to the wall as well.

#YYCLC Day 95: Building Structures

Thanks to Dan Pye from the CBE Boys Program for sharing action photos from their learning commons, this week!

Our students really enjoy hands on projects. In the Learning Commons they are able to build structures with a variety of materials. This maker station challenged our students to build a tower out of tape and spaghetti. The tower needed to be able to support the weight of one marshmallow.