Weekly Updates February 23-26

Important Reminders & Updates

We have an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper joining our school for the next two weeks. Each class will have an opportunity to learn from Knowledge Keeper Chantal Chagnon. Our day is Tuesday, March 10. You can find more information here!

Learning Updates 

This week, a huge focus was Pink Shirt Day and the NLS Chinese Dragon Dance. Our class paraded the entire school and despite how tiring it was, we did it! We also learned about Pink Shirt Day from various artwork, Grade 5 leadership students, and a whole school assembly.

Literacy: We started a type of writing called persuasive writing. Students used various interesting prompts to try convincing the reader to buy an item using TIDE writing tool. Some of our topics included convincing the reader to buy a pet rock, or to buy a fake mustache! We also practiced fixing sentences with mistakes, while focusing on conventions like punctuation, spelling of common words, and capitals. 

Math: We reviewed some multiplication and division strategies through Math stations and games, like the break apart method, arrays, drawing equal groups, skip counting, and repeated addition/subtraction. Students also practiced word problems with multiplication and division. The main topic was learning about the multiplication chart. By the end of Grade 3, students should be fluent with multiplication facts up to 10. I sent a paper copy home this week for students to practice at home!

Research Project: We started a very exciting project this week that encompasses all the subject areas, including Science (Computer Science, Earth Systems), Social Studies (Culture), English Language Arts and more! We look forward to sharing more in the upcoming weeks. 

Student Highlights

Ezleah said: On Monday, we did a Chinese dragon parade and I was inside the dragon. We went to the Kindergarten classrooms in the morning and in the afternoon, we went to all the other classes. 

Neepseese said: On Monday in gym, we played hockey and we played a game called Pirates.

Kain said: On Tuesday, we did art with Ms. Muma and Mr. Newton's classes because Mrs. Schumacher wasn't there. 

Aryan said: In recess, I played basketball by myself and I can't be good at basketball yet. 

Idres said: On Wednesday, we started our Science project. It was about our favourite country and we went to Epic and read a book and we had to write questions.

Emma said: On Wednesday in the morning, we had a Pink Shirt Day. We sang two songs and some Grade Fivers had some important messages for us to know that Pink Shirt Day is an important day of a person getting bullied by wearing a pink shirt to school. 

Anshu said: In Math, we learned the multiplication chart and we learned how to do division on it. 

Photo Highlights