March 2-6 Weekly Updates

Important Updates & Events

1. Remember report cards are available online to read! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Student Involved Conference bookings are available too. They are on Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20. If you are unable to attend, please email me and we will find a time that works!

2. Thursday, March 12 is the 100th Day of School! It's also Dress Like Your Future Self Day! It is completely optional. 

3. Our special day with Knowledge Keeper Chantal Chagnon is on Tuesday, March 10. 

Learning Updates

Literacy: This week, we wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs. Brinson. Our focus this week was editing and revising our rough drafts to make a good copy. We also practiced vocabulary words using a Frayer Model, and practiced grammar using sentence scramblers.

Math: We learned about remainders and what that means in division. Below is a good video about this! Students also engaged in lots of practice through games and activities. We then ended the week with a Show What You Know. 

Science: We did our Earth Systems Show What You Know this week. Then we continued our research project, focusing on using our reading, questioning, listening, and note taking skills. 

Student Highlights

Aram said: On Tuesday, March 3rd, in gym, we played hockey but Idres, Salaar, Yoon and I were hitting the most balls. 

Mila said: On Wednesday, we celebrated Holi by making an elephant art. We drew different kinds of patterns on the elephant to make it more a Holi celebration!

Kain said: In gym, we did passing and also we played a game of Pirates, but if a person that you past to has the ball, and the music stops, you are the pirate and you take your partner's ball. 

Xavier said: In gym, we scored goals and we moved around to score goals. We didn't get to play wax museum.

William said: We started a Science project about all around the world and countries. We are making a Google Slides and we are writing questions on different pages in our Science journal. 

Yoon said: On Friday, in Music, we played with Boom Whackers to play songs. Boom Whackers are instruments that if you hit it on the floor, it vibrates and makes sounds. First, we played Guess the Movie with the boom whackers and second, we did the crazy train and ordinary. 

Yui said: During Writing, we do the good copy for Mrs. Brinson. It was in our writing journals and we put it on a blank piece of paper. It was persuasive writing about changing the school. 

Photo Highlights