Have you ever been in class and thought to yourself ‘oh I wish we could be outside right now. It would help me work so much better’. Well that’s what I’m going to be talking about today. Hello, my name is Aviv, and today I’m going to be telling you about why kids should have outdoor education and why this would help a lot with our learning.

 

I believe children should not spend 8 hours of the day between 4 walls. Nature is the best classroom. The scenery always changes.  There is always something interesting and new to learn. Nature school provides opportunities for hands-on, real life learning. For example, in my nature program I made bowls and cups from clay from a river, how cool is that? We could never do things like that indoors. Did you know that it is proven that being in nature increases your creativity by 60%? Well if you didn’t, now you do and this is just one of the many reasons why outdoor learning is helpful and more effective for teaching. I found that I’m feeling more creative since I started going to my nature program. Every child learns in their own different way. Some kids struggle in the classroom, but shine when given tasks outside in nature.

 

Additionally, kids nowadays spend way too much time in front of the screens, and I’m sorry to   say that it does include me. There is no technology in nature. Instead children are more physically active throughout the day. They are stronger, calmer and more relaxed after school outdoors. Being outside, a person’’s relaxation increases by 55%! Crazy right? In addition it also reduces  cortisol levels, a hormone in your body that reflects stress, by 12%. Being outdoors brings less stress and that is something we could all use!

 

Nature has been proven time and time again to reduce anxiety, depression, stress, and anger. I can say from my own experience that nature boosts my wellbeing and the moment I go to nature I feel calmer and happier. And just as kids in regular schools are obliged to keep their classroom clean, children in  nature school become more aware of the environment around them, and take care to keep it clean and safe instead of littering like, unfortunately, lots of people often do these days. 

 

The risk of getting germs is reduced significantly by being outside. In fact, open air learning was used to prevent the spread of Tuberculosis in the early 20th century. We could have used outdoor education. We could have tried using it for covid 19  instead of using masks inside which was uncomfortable, made it hard to breath, and I’m pretty sure we’re all happy they’re gone now, I know I am! 

 

I belive that every kid should have outdoor education. Just think about what I said. Maybe  you could send your kids to learn outside. Or maybe you could change your own school into an outdoor school. This could really change the way kids look at school, instead of being stuck inside all day, it could be a wonderful outdoor experience! Consider it, and thank you for listening.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone!  Today we took cookies and excavated them like the cookies were the earth and the chocolate chips are rocks (We put the leftovers in a bag to enjoy later!)

There are 3 types of rock.

Geologists are people that study the earth.

I enjoyed it because we used cookies.

Introduction (introduce the project)

Task: What were supposed to make a castle with a working drawbridge.

Facts, castles were used to protect important people in the medieval ages. Facts about lords and serfs, lords and serfs were important and unimportant people. although i think that serfs were honourable people. did you know that a feudal system were upper and lower class.

Drawbridges: a drawbridge is a bridge that is pulled up and down by pulleys and gears.drawbridges were also used for castle defense. There are also bascule modern day draw bridges.

Food and feasting halls.

In feasting halls there would be 2 tables 1 would be for important and unimportant people.important people would get good food unlike the peasants. They use to cut with wood en knifes. Most foods that they ate were illeagle foods now.

Castles.

castles are big houses./

Science section (Pulleys and Gears)

 

 

 

 

 

 

My hypothesis/start idea.

My procedure/middle.

Final Design:

Self Assessment: 

 

self reflection

my question was what i liked and disliked about the project.I liked building the castle and i didn’t like making the blog. what i would do differently next time is work a little more on my blog.

My stop motion project is a film that I did with 2 other freinds. It’s based on a book called: ‘The wild robot. Me and my group desided what we think is the most important skript in the book.We chose 2 of the last couple scenes.

 

We chose the scene were the recos come and attack and the first part of the battle. The video is 56 seconds long.

 

This is the book.

 

 

Hello world my name is my name and that is my name this blog is about sound.

First we studied about what is sound. Sound is a wave that travels in air and then it goes into your ear.

Next, we looked at what the 4 properties of sound are. sound travels,reflects,vibrates,absorbed and modifie.

 

After, we explored how Sound travel we learnd about vibration.Vibration is when you are in a closed room then when you talk the sound travels and comes back at you that is vibration.

 

Then we challenged our thinking with Volume and Pitch.

Volumn is something that refers to how loud sound is.

Pitch is something that refers to how high or low a sound is.

Here is 2 facts about pitch and volumn:did you known that pitch makes a really high flute sound.Volumn could be louder than what humans could hear.

Finally, I made a model ear. Here it is.

 

 

Reflection of learning

I think that Science is going to be fun this year because it is fun

I would like to improve on science. Specifically, because i just want to

I would like to learn about wind.

ABOUT MY SUMMER BREAK .         

For my summer break I went to Israel. We also went for my sister’s Bat Mitzvah 

First, I went to Haifa for a week.  We got there on a flight with my mom, my dad and my sister. The flight took 11 hours! I felt so tired but happy to get to Israel! 

After that, all twenty people in our family came to a giant villa in  Moshav Gadish. In the front  of  the Villa there was a giant building. In the back there was a giant pool table, a ping pong table, a giant place for everybody to eat, a giant hot tub and a giant kitchen. In the back there were also a bunch of cabins for everybody to sleep at with hot tubs. A couple of the people in my family slept in the front building including me and my mom and my dad. 

Next, we went to a villa in Eilat  for a week. We went diving. It was my third time diving. We needed to put on a suit, goggles and a tank but my hands felt cold because I didn’t have gloves. We saw an octopus, an eel, pufferfish, and clamshells that closed when we got closer. There was also lots of coral and a lot of special colourful fish. One of the fish was huge and was the colours of the rainbow. While we were there, my sister did a diving course  for a week. It was nice when she was doing her course because I was able to have time with my family members. While Ayala was diving, we spent time at the beach. We went snorkeling in coral paths and swam around. I love going to the beach in Israel because there is so much to do and the sand is super soft. 

Finally, we went back home on a flight which took 11 hours. I was sad to be leaving because I like Israel more than Canada. I hope to go back to visit during one of our breaks. I would go back tomorrow if I could! When we got home, we got our dog back from my dog’s babysitter. My puppy didn’t leave us alone for the rest of the day because she missed us so much. I was so happy to see my dog and gave her lots of attention! It felt weird to be home again and it didn’t really feel like home… I still feel like Israel is home. I had a great vacation and I can’t wait to go back!