The Beauty of Fall

I have the privilege of attending a 6-part teacher training series called, "Land-Based Indigenous Education Professional Learning," where the goal is to build relationships with the land through Indigenous pedagogies designed to support student learning.  I shared a bit of what I learned with the class today, then we decided to take advantage of the weather and head outdoors to the treed area behind the playground. 

Students were tasked with finding beautiful leaves and were amazed at what they could see when they looked closely. And before long the lady bugs must have wondered what we were up to because all of a sudden they were everywhere!  Once we'd observed the lady bugs for awhile we came back in to use oil pastels and recreate our leaves in our sketchbooks - with beautiful results.  Stay tuned for more outdoor learning throughout the year!

Terry Fox Run

This week our school is proud to take part in this year’s Terry Fox Run for cancer research. Terry never gave up – and neither will we. We hope you will support us by donating at: http://www.terryfox.ca/Marlborough or by bringing in a Twoonie for Terry!

T.W.A.S. Sept 16-20

Another busy week!!  Here are the learning highlights!

New math groups started this week.  All groups are looking at place value concepts in a variety of tasks.  Grade 4 students need to be able to represent 4-digit numbers and Grade 5 students work on representing 5-digit numbers.

In Science, we began looking at adaptations on wetland animals.  Students began researching a wetland animal and are sketching and writing their physical and behavoural adaptations.

Mapping continued in Social Studies.  Some students are completing homework this weekend - either their own creative map or a map of Canada.  The instructions for the Canada map are below.

We have shared a few texts this week - the favourite by far was "Into the Woods."  Ask your child to describe that book and how we were able to make Text-to-Text Connections.  Students also completed a picture prompt writing activity - either with an outer space theme or an underwater theme.

Upcoming:
- Please return your child's school and field trip paperwork if you haven't done so already
- No school tomorrow (Friday Sept 20)
- Field trip next Thursday (Sept 26)
- Terry Fox Run Friday Sept 27

 

T.W.A.S. (Sept 9-13)

This week's post is completed by Ms. Rutland - as we ran out of time to complete it as a class!

Math - Students finished their work in the graphing unit this week.  Please check out a sample of your child's work either from a work sample sent home or digitally on Iris or SeeSaw.

Science - We looked at Animal Classification this week and then used books and photographs to classify animals that could be found in a wetland ecosystem.

Social Studies - Students completed their Mapping Booklets and have moved on to applying their knowledge of maps to creating their own map of either a real or imagined place.  The rubric for this task is below.  This has been shared with students so that they are aware of what is expected at each proficiency level.

L.A. - We moved into a new grouping where students have been placed onto a team (blue, red, or green).  Each team has been working on writing through making connections to quality literature.  This week, students have made connections to self using the books The Darkest Dark, Franklin's Bad Day, and Stone Soup.

Our school had the privilege of the Dare-to-Care Program on Wednesday, Sept. 11th.  In this program students learned the difference between conflict and bullying and some strategies to use if they find themselves in these situations.  We will continue to build on the ideas shared throughout the year.

Thank you to all of you who were able to attend our Meet the Teacher on Sept 12.  Important documents were distributed.  If you weren't able to attend, please watch for your child's paperwork on Monday.  Please complete the documents requiring signatures and return as soon as possible.

Thank you!

T.W.A.S.

This Week At School (Sept 3-6)

K. - We started learning about different types of wetland ecosystems, specifically bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps.  We learned that peat is decayed vegetation or organic matter.

K. - Our class is learning about using a compass rose for Social Studies.

K. - We used picture books to find juicy descriptive language.  Then we reviewed what nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs are.

K. - In math, we continued to learn about collecting data and different kinds of graphs such as double bar graphs and pictographs.

Also this week patrols and Family Friday began!