Celia Marto – Division 5 – Comings and Goings
 

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We received 55 Chum salmon on Wednesday and Div. 9 was filled with excitement! Have a look at the video where you will see the salmon eggs being dropped into our tank.  We are carefully watching them and adding up “Accumulated Thermal Units” to track their development as they approach the next stage.

Behind the scenes, we are learning about habitats (streams and oceans), collecting data (accumulated thermal units), and learning about life cycles.  We are also continuing to build understanding of indigenous perspectives with regards to salmon and environmental stewardship.

 

Happy Diwali

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To our families who are celebrating this week, Happy Diwali.  May the festival of lights brighten your life and bring you moments of joy!

Perseverance

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Our wreath turned out beautifully.  The Core Competencies in the B.C. Curriculum highlight the importance of working together to achieve a common goal.  In making this wreath, we had to problem solve and get through small frustrations while showing our flexible thinking.  I wasn’t sure if the students realised how many obstacles we had overcome, as a group, to arrive at our finished wreath as not all students were aware of individual stumbling blocks.  To make this learning and our actions more evident, I decided to display many of our challenges in a way that we could see it from each other’s perspectives.  Ultimately, it was a teachable moment that helped us build our understanding of perseverance.  Congratulations to Div. 9!

 

Our Remembrance Day Wreath

Mrs. Marto and Mrs. Andrew’s Class (our buddy class), in a choral recitation, performed this poem at our assembly on Friday.

 

For those who left

Never to return

For those who returned

But were never the same

 

Poppy

Little poppy

As red as can be

To show that we REMEMBER

Those that fought

To make us free

  • Back in June of 2023, Mrs. Marto’s grade 2/3’s and Mrs. Andrew’s 4/5 classes joined forces to design and construct a backpack using Makedo tools and a lot of cardboard
  • The objective was to design a wearable and fully functioning backpack, using only the Makedo tools and screws
  • The students did not use any tape to construct these backpacks
  • this design project followed on the heels of our Geometry Unit and, at its core, the backpack design had to show understanding of cube net so that the cardboard could be folded and formed from a singular cut of cardboard
  • Although this post comes late (my daughter’s high school graduation kept me hopping in those final weeks) I’m still hoping enough of my former parents are subscribed and are able to see what the students created.  It was such a rewarding project!

It’s been an exciting day!

Div. 6 and Div. 7 students had the opportunity to play board games under the guidance of Burnaby North Leadership students. As well, they did a building challenge today with their Buddy Class.  Lastly, our butterflies also began emerging today from their chrysalis.  Also, check out our beautiful Spring art.

 

It was a fabulous day and the Parkcrest kids were amazing.  Have a look at some of the highlights.  A big thank you to all the parents that helped supervise.

 

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