General Update November 10th

Hello Everyone,

This week we have been focusing on:

Finishing our Poppy Art for the Remembrance Day Assembly on Thursday at 10:45 AM. Thank you to Jay who will do a quick presentation at the assembly tomorrow to introduce our art pieces. We also made a Remembrance Day wreath out of red origami cranes, as a symbol of peace.

We worked with our grade 1/2 buddies in Division 9 to create Postcards for Peace, which are postcards (art and a letter) to veterans in Canada. We will present the pictures from this work during the assembly Thursday, and Ms. Guzzo, Division 9’s teacher, will be sending off the postcards to a list of veterans provided from the Postcards for Peace organization. Thank you to Sophia who will do a quick introduction of this project and our postcards during the assembly tomorrow.

We are working on STRUCTURE by doing a tower building challenge, making a tower out of 150 coffee stir sticks and limited hot glue supplies. More time to build up your 30 cm minimum height tower tomorrow! How much weight will it be able to hold?

We are almost done working on our Applied Math on Jet Fighters. During our work, Ms. D can see we need some more practice using protractors, measuring angles, and doing division. Some of our independent math work will help address this, and we will also do more practice in the future as a class. Please work on packet #3 for 15 minutes at home tonight, as we hope to finish up and mark it soon. Math quizzes have been passed back and need to be signed.

We were able to finally test our solar cookers yesterday with the warmer weather! Everyone had a chance to record their results. Today, Ms. D took a picture of each cooker and building team, and then asked students to take the solar cookers home and store them for warmer days. Please don’t throw them away! 

For socials, we talked about structure of maps and communities, which will be our focus for the next while. Please bring in any fold-up maps you can spare from home so we can look at them in class.

We will continue with Bunraku tomorrow! Our puppetry expert did not show up on Tuesday, unfortunately, but Ms. D was able to do the workshop with students as she had participated in the workshop before. We have made our paper puppets, and our teams of three puppeteers will get an opportunity to make a short skit with their puppets using drama, movement, and teamwork!

Science Games names have been submitted to the lottery. We won’t find out until November 15th if any of our teams had luck in the lottery. If we don’t receive a spot from the lottery, we may not be able to go this year, as it is a very popular event. Stay tuned for more information when Ms. D receives it!

Remember: No school ON FRIDAY! Pink notice went home today with important dates. Field trip to Science World is next Friday the 18th.

Thank you,

Ms. D