Mairi Anderson's classroom website
Bonjour! The past two weeks have been very full and busy in our class! Division 9 students have been working to finish up many projects. PLEASE NOTE: Next Wednesday, June 29th, school is only in session from 8:40-10:00am. In my June newsletter, I wrote 10:25, but this was last year’s schedule. My apologies for any […]
Hello families! This week flew by, with a Pro-D day on Monday, and Sports Day on Friday. I hope that everyone had a fabulous time competing in the 10 stations of challenges. Bravo to all the participants! Three cheers for the Red, Yellow, Green and Blue teams! In Math, we explored 3D shapes using modelling […]
Hello families! Can you believe it is already June? This year has flown by, and we have plenty going on in the coming weeks. Please see this digital copy of our June newsletter if you have not already seen the paper copy: Brantford Division 9 Newsletter – June This week in Math, we learned some […]
Bonjour tout le monde! On June 23rd, our class along with Division 7 will be walking to MacPherson pool for a loonie swim (this will be covered by PAC funding and will be free for students). Please see the blue permission form sent home this week, sign and return for Monday. If you missed the […]
Bonjour tout le monde, In Science, we learned about our animals’ groups and wrote about why they belong to that category. We learned about different types of habitats, and in which ones our animals belong. To record our learning, we are creating books all about our animals and how they fit into the categories and […]
Hello families! This week, students were hard at work practicing grammar, readers’ theatre, and science! They are showing so much growth, and I am impressed with their strengthening skills. In Math, we continued work with fractions. To wrap up our unit, students imagined ingredients for their ideal pizzas, and wrote the fraction of the ingredients […]
Hello all! This week, our class took on a spring theme, learning all about plants and preparing our garden bin. We practiced a reader’s theatre script explaining the growth of a seed. We will practice this again next week before sharing with our classmates. Since we will be having the Young Actors Project visit Brantford […]
Bonjour tout le monde! Last week, we used games and hands-on work to build our understanding of fractions. We used Cuisenaire rods to measure, and completed spacial-awareness puzzles to familiarize ourselves with the materials. We noticed how two halves make a whole, and two quarters equal one half! We explored the many ways to represent […]
Hello Division 9 families, This week, we pushed ourselves to fully wrap up our Science unit on landforms. Students have now all completed their flipbooks, papier mâché islands, and labelled maps! I am proud of how hard the class has been working on these projects, and am excited for them to share their learning with […]
Hello families, Happy Easter to all those who celebrate. I hope you have a very pleasant long weekend! This week, we finally completed our papier mâché islands, and made maps to explain the geography. We painted the islands, and will be drawing and colouring maps. We will use cardinal directions and landforms vocabulary, and visual-spatial […]