Important Dates and Learning Updates
IMPORTANT DATES
February 11: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop
February 12: Fun Lunch (Opa!)
February 13 & 14: Teachers Convention - No school
February 17: Family Day - School closed
February 18: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop
February 20: Parent Council Meeting
February 26: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice)
February 26: Pink Shirt Day Assembly (12:30pm)
Congratulations to all of the students who participated in science fair this week!! Everyone worked so hard in becoming well versed in their area of interest and the presentations they created. An additionally congratulations to those students who are headed to cities and to those who were honored with student and judges choice.
We continued our work with identifying and classifying quadrilaterals (grade 5) and triangles (grade 6) in mathematics this week. We have been talking about congruent angles and sides, parallel and perpendicular lines (and how those are documented on shapes) and understanding the ways we can find out what missing angles will be with quadrilaterals and triangles.
In grade 5 science this week, we looked at mixtures. We talked about different types of mixtures and completed a lab where students were asked to make hypotheses about a variety of teacher created mixtures and to analyze those results by attempting to recreate those mixtures and compare them to the ones we observed.
In grade 6, students worked on developing an understanding of the phases of the moon while students in grade 6 social have started presentations on the provincial government.
We finished up our hero essays and our emotion poems during our catch up computer time and had some time on prodigy this week.
In PE we started our volleyball unit without nets. Next week we will add nets.
We had a fun collaborative learning build on Thursday for the students who were not participating in science fair. Students were tasked with designing a city in Minecraft that would be student led and teacher supported. The students were reminded of our important conversations around having meaningful roles and to ensure they are active in their learning. Students organized themselves into different groups, brainstormed ideas around various structures and spaces that add value to a city and decided who might be best suited for different roles. Students spent their afternoon working as a group of 30 to build and create their city while communicating with each other and following the plan set out together.
Our week ended with some time working on our reading nooks and they are really coming together! We started the block by watching a video of the giant lobster build that Ms. Parent was a part of over the summer.
https://youtu.be/fHv3_6s8so8
We talked about our hope of adding in the constraint of finishing the projects by the end of the month and students went off and worked on their projects. We cleaned up and spent some time reflecting on our roles and activities in our visual journals before heading to PE to end our day.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
February 18: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop
Congratulations to all of the students who participated in science fair this week!! Everyone worked so hard in becoming well versed in their area of interest and the presentations they created. An additionally congratulations to those students who are headed to cities and to those who were honored with student and judges choice.
We continued our work with identifying and classifying quadrilaterals (grade 5) and triangles (grade 6) in mathematics this week. We have been talking about congruent angles and sides, parallel and perpendicular lines (and how those are documented on shapes) and understanding the ways we can find out what missing angles will be with quadrilaterals and triangles.
In grade 5 science this week, we looked at mixtures. We talked about different types of mixtures and completed a lab where students were asked to make hypotheses about a variety of teacher created mixtures and to analyze those results by attempting to recreate those mixtures and compare them to the ones we observed.
In grade 6, students worked on developing an understanding of the phases of the moon while students in grade 6 social have started presentations on the provincial government.
We finished up our hero essays and our emotion poems during our catch up computer time and had some time on prodigy this week.
In PE we started our volleyball unit without nets. Next week we will add nets.
We had a fun collaborative learning build on Thursday for the students who were not participating in science fair. Students were tasked with designing a city in Minecraft that would be student led and teacher supported. The students were reminded of our important conversations around having meaningful roles and to ensure they are active in their learning. Students organized themselves into different groups, brainstormed ideas around various structures and spaces that add value to a city and decided who might be best suited for different roles. Students spent their afternoon working as a group of 30 to build and create their city while communicating with each other and following the plan set out together.
Our week ended with some time working on our reading nooks and they are really coming together! We started the block by watching a video of the giant lobster build that Ms. Parent was a part of over the summer.
https://youtu.be/fHv3_6s8so8
We talked about our hope of adding in the constraint of finishing the projects by the end of the month and students went off and worked on their projects. We cleaned up and spent some time reflecting on our roles and activities in our visual journals before heading to PE to end our day.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
