It was such a pleasure seeing so many families at Student Led Conferences this week! You did a wonderful job of touring your spaces and so much learning that you are proud of!

This week, we finished our Bear Art inspired by Indigenous stories and art techniques.

We created beautiful flower art using sharpie and pencil crayons.

In math, we started learning about measurement! We explored non-standard units of measurement, and Div. 16 had some very creative ideas! Some different ways we measured each other’s height was

  • 9 pencil crayons long
  • 7 books
  • 4 blocks high
  • 5 name tags
  • 8.5 rainbow straws
  • 10 animal toys
  • 14.5 Keva blocks
  • 12 stacked chairs

However, we found that it was hard to compare heights using these tools! We realized that standard units and tools could help us! So we learned how to use rulers, measuring tape, and meter sticks to measure the centimeters (cm) of items (and people!) around the room! We look forward to exploring measurement in many ways!

We started some new story workshop stories and look forward to continuing to build them and write about them! We are going to try some new story workshop routines next week!

We visited the special story workshop in the library for some new inspiration too!

Thank you so much for your interest in helping for our upcoming field trip to Grouse Mountain! There was overwhelming interest so we did a draw to determine who can join us! I wish we could bring more of you with us! However, we will be going to the SFU Museum of Archaeology on May 28th, so please let me know if you would like to come for this field trip, or if you would like to join on us on some other local walking field trips.