The Marshmallow Challenge! | WOW, what a day! The students of Division 3 began their day with Party leader speeches, which were outstanding, and then a class vote. We had a TIE between the Conservatives and the Liberals. Then everyone went down the to Multipurpose room to vote for the school-wide federal election. We will find out those results on Monday. We are at a pivotal point in our novel 'War Horse', and can't wait to find out what happens. Monday we will finish the novel. With the Little Buddies, everyone made jackolantern glyphs, which are super cute. This afternoon we did a team-building activity called 'The Marshmallow Challenge'. Afterwards, we watched a TedTalk explaining that the most successful people completing this activity are kindergarteners! Reminders: *Grade wear due Monday Language Arts: Book Commercial Math: See yesterday French: Septembre Calendrier, Comic (past due), l'action de Grace - jeudi le 22 Octobre |
It was such an unusual day. Leave a detailed comment about the most interesting thing you did today.
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twinkleToe
10/16/2015 03:42:45 pm
My favourite part of the day was probably the Marshmallow Challenge. It was fun because we all worked as a team and as the video said, we had many "ta-da" moments and quite a few "oh no!" moments and it was really cool. I loved how we were working as a team, and even though we didn't win, I still felt like we achieved some important things. I learned that other people might have ideas that you might not agree with, but if you accept their thoughts, our project becomes bigger. It's not just you, after all. So I learned a lot about teamwork and I also learned about constructing something with very few materials. It took FOREVER for us to find a good plan, a good structure. We did well, though. I'm proud of our effort.
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crazycraft
10/16/2015 04:20:56 pm
the most interesting part of the day was the marshmallow challenge. I was fun to work together as a team and brainstorm ideas for a structure,base,and make it tall even though we did not win I had a lot of fun working with my team
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cleopatra
10/16/2015 04:29:05 pm
my favorite parts of the day would probably be when the campaign leaders said there speeches, i thought that every body who said a speech was excellent.I also thought that Calem used his hands a lot with excitement witch i thought it was great.I thought that Aleena told us a lot of environment information witch i thought was good. I thought that Jono was very confident and i think the NDP did very well. i also thought that DJ gave us a lot of information and did great.
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Sparkles
10/16/2015 04:59:06 pm
My favorite part of the day was the speeches because it was fun to listen to the leaders and after do a class vote on whose platforms were the best. My party didn't win but I'm happy for the party's that tied because there speeches were really good. Bye see you guys tomorrow. :)
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Curlyfrie
10/16/2015 05:00:26 pm
My favourite part of the day was the marshmallow challenge because we tried so hard as a team to finish the challenge but it callapsed but it was still fun and I couldn't believe that kindergartens were the most archived people to finish the marshmallow challenge.
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SuperPunnyGamer
10/16/2015 05:22:41 pm
The most interesting thing that I did today was probably going to the play day. We came in third over all, but we won no games. It's very cool pn how it ended up. Either way, I am proud of the way my team played. We still need a lot of practice though. See you all on monday.
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ggingersnap03
10/16/2015 05:40:35 pm
The most interesting thing about the day was probably when we did the marshmallow challenge. My group started off really well and then when we added the marshmallow to the top it started to tip. and then we knew it wasn't going to work so we tried some other ways to fix it but sadly those didn't work. That's ok it still was really fun! See you guys Monday.
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polarcolar
10/16/2015 06:14:09 pm
The most interesting thing we did today was the marshmallow challenge. Our group didn't know how to make stand the spaghetti sticks. Finally when we make stand it, unfortunately, teacher said its 5 minutes left to mesure and compare it. We were trying to make more taller but the problem was the time. We were bit of upset, but when I watch the video and tell us that kindergarden did more better than grown-ups, I was surprised and it was funny.
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Ninjaaloverr
10/16/2015 06:48:08 pm
Today was really fun one of my favourite things were the marshmallow challenge! It was so fun at first we were all trying really hard then all the spaggetti noodles broke and it got a lot harder! In the end we didn't even make anything but it was still fun! I'm so excited to finish war horse!!!
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itzme.eg
10/16/2015 08:51:29 pm
The most interesting part of the day was probably the "MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE" because it was very confusing on how it was possible to actually build a tall structure with the fact that spaghetti is such a delicate component and is the main resource that we had! Also it just occurred to me that we got to play in the primary playground which was very fun because Mrs.Van joined with the fun! Have a great weekend people! Bye!!! 👍🎉✌️
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speedyslug
10/16/2015 10:36:40 pm
I thought the marshmallow challenge was the best because i love to build structures.The second best thing we did today is the speeches. it kind of sucks that we tied with the liberals but i guess its better than nothing.when we were doing the marshmallow challenge we all put a idea in to the "idea box" and when we were done with it we all had a bit of our idea in it. Well see you all Monday.
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ultrabanana
10/16/2015 11:10:51 pm
An interesting thing that I did today was going to Walmart. There, I was shopping for my Halloween costume. There were lots of costumes at Walmart. However, I finally chose the same costume as my friend. Then we went to area where they sell all the electronics. We played on some sample phones and other electronic devices. Finally, we went to clothing area. Today was a very fun day.
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Shadowdogs
10/17/2015 08:10:28 am
The most interesting thing I did on Friday was, Playday! Even know we lost both of our soccer games, the team and I both had a lot of fun. When everyone went back to school I stayed back and went with my dadand went to go get mr.Enderman a present for his party, and guess what, i'm ay his party right know. This comment isnt that detailed but it is good enough. See you all on Monday 👾
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FluffyKittens300
10/17/2015 08:23:23 am
I think the most interesting thing was working with our little buddies. I found the pumpkin glyphs really fun and I would want to do another thing like that in the future. My buddie and I's pumpkins looked very different from each others. I did a similar stem to the ones we did on our pumpkin art, but it was green instead.
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Teddysprinkle
10/17/2015 01:33:03 pm
My favorite part of the day was when we did the marshmallow challenge!! Our team was SO close to winning!!!
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EpicfaceManiac
10/17/2015 05:32:12 pm
Hi! My favourite part of the day was the "MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE" because I love creating and building things with my imagination also because i love a good challenge!!!!! It was soon hard because spaghetti is not that flexible and strong so it was tough to build with. My group tried to build a tent out of it!!!!! It was a failure though!!!! Well i have to go!!!!! See you all on Monday!!!!!
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mr.enderman1919
10/18/2015 03:25:10 pm
The marshmallow challenge was AWESOME I love having a challenge. The pumpkin glyphs were fun too. Not sure if that's how you spell glyphs. Not much to say. See you all tomorrow.
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ItsBubz
10/18/2015 05:12:38 pm
I thought the Marshmallow Challenge was surprising and SO COMPLICATED. Now that I think about it I have a good idea of doing it. I would stack my desk on someone's desk having the legs of my desk face up. Then adding a good structure of noodles on one of the legs and the marshmallow on top. See you guys tomorrow.
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PieReporter
10/18/2015 06:46:35 pm
I thought the Marshmallow Challenge was really interesting and cool. I also liked it because i like building stuff.
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Teddysprinkle
10/18/2015 08:07:57 pm
My favourite part of the day was when we did the marshmallow challenge because it was so much fun!! I liked it because the teams we had we all had to think and communicate on how we would build a tall structure out of spaghetti,string and a marshmallow.
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sillybilly
10/18/2015 08:41:18 pm
the most intresting part of the day was speeches because everyone had great speeches
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Greeneatingmonster
10/19/2015 07:32:41 am
Hi, The marshmallow challenge was really fun, my group and I tried to build a tower type of thing put it broke because the marshmallow was too heavy. But at the end it was amazing and even though we didn't win it was still a nice group activity.
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Littlerock
10/19/2015 07:56:10 am
The best part of my day is the marshmallow challenge it was fun even though we didn't win but we did have lots of fun it was awesome and i didn't do much but I came up with alot of ideas it was amazing how different grades and people with jobs can't do this but kindergarteners can do it and see u in a few minutes byee
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sk8rat
10/19/2015 08:29:32 am
i liked the speechcs because it was fun to watch.
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maxhotdog
10/19/2015 09:36:44 am
i thout that the marshmello chellange was cool bout hard because the tape was stiking on the marshmello so we did not have a lot of tape so we did not buelied any thing so we lost
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(a.k.a. Mrs. Van) I am a grade 6 teacher who has been teaching in the Surrey School District for 30+ years. I love to play golf and tennis, kayak, ski, walk, read, garden, knit and sew. I believe in the value of life-long learning, and that learning should have purpose and be enjoyable. Categories
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