Thursday, June 17

As we are nearing the end of school, the students are enjoying their time outside. We have been doing games or free playground activities outside. They have done well remembering sunscreen, hats and water bottles.

This week we had the pleasure of viewing a Model T car from 96 years ago. This fit in perfectly with our Social Studies unit on communities in the past. We had previously looked at what life was like 100 years ago, including what it was like to be a student. The children really enjoyed seeing the antique car and were able to recall many details about it, even days later.

In Science, we have been doing our unit on the properties of liquids. We have enjoyed many experiments on the properties of different liquids (water, vinegar, oil, syrup), studied the shapes of drops for these same liquids and looked at surface tension (how many drops will stay on a nickel before the surface tension is broken?)

We tied orange ribbons to the school fence this week as an act of remembrance for the 215 children, whose bodies were discovered at a residential school in B.C. Our discussion of this important issue will be ongoing. Our focus was we tied the ribbons was on a positive message or promise. Several of the students promised to never forget these children.

In math, we have moved on to our study of 2D and 3D shapes. This week, we have created some highly decorated paper models of various 3D shapes so that we could begin the discussion of faces, edges, corners.

 Thursday, March 18

We are nearing the end of our quarantine period. The scheduled date for return to school is Monday, March 22. Keep in mind that during these unpredictable times, plans can change on short notice.

I have been impressed and pleased with the engagement of the class in the online classroom. Our attendance has been good, as has the amount of work being handed in each day.

For our writing, we focused on understanding beginning, middle and end of stories. We spent last week looking at the story 'The Mitten' to understand these story elements. This week, we have moved on to creating a class story,. We began with students submitting their ideas for a setting, then characters, and main events. Today, their task is to create the ending - solve the problem. In what seems out of order, tomorrow, we will create the beginning and the title. As I have explained to the students, you can only write an effective, engaging beginning if you know what is to come. The final step will be to give it a title. When we return to class next week, we will create the book with illustrations.

Students have progressed in their Math in the last 2 weeks as well, working on addition and subtraction.

We have done a unit on colour in Science - learning about primary and secondary colors, as well as the concepts of transparent, translucent and opaque. Students have submitted wonderful photos to share their work. Next week, we will be creating an amazing spring bulletin board based on these concepts.

We are all looking forward to being back at school next week before we head off again for Spring Break. Stay well everyone!

 February 26. 2021

It's been an eventful week! We wore our pink shirts on Wednesday as part of the national Pink Shirt campaign to end bullying. We talked and wrote about kindness. We talked about what we can do to keep each other feeling safe and respected. 

We also had a visit from the Alex dental bus this week. Several of our students were able to get a free exam and fluoride treatment.

We are coming to an end in our Boats and Buoyance Science unit, culminating in a boat building activity. The stludents have been applying their knowledge of density, buoyancy and waterproof materials to design and build coats. Next week, we will test them to see if they float, how much cargo they can carry and if they can be propelled through water. Should be fun!

Beginning, Monday, March 1, students in Ms. Christensen's class will be entering and exiting through a different set of doors. Hopefully, this will help to reduce crowding during pick up and drop off times. We will now be using the  northeast doors. These are the doors right where the portable is attached to the school. Wew encourage families to distance themselves on the compound to make everyone safer.

See you in March!