This week we are focusing on finishing up our Social Studies unit on Canadian Geographic Regions. We will also be doing some art for Remembrance Day.

Also, we are collecting newspaper to use in the classroom for various projects to protect our desks. If you have some to spare, please send it in on Monday.

Monday:

• LA and Math in the morning
• SS and Computer Lab in the afternoon (we are going to be doing some coding with Scratch)

Tuesday:

• LA, Math, Indigenous work with Ms. Willis, and Music in the morning
• SS, Art (Part 1), and Gym in the afternoon

Wednesday:

• LA, Math, and Library in the morning
• Art (Part 2), in the afternoon

Thursday:

• LA, Gym, Math in the morning
• Intermediate Book Exchange (Library – optional) and French in the afternoon

Friday:

• LA, Music, Math
• Gym, “Ketchup and Pickles” (unfinished work, choice activities)

“Halloween” by greger.ravik is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Monday

• Language Arts, Math in the morning
• Social Studies (Canadian Geographic Regions) and Computer Lab (supporting Social Studies) in the afternoon
• **at some point today or tomorrow (depending on weather) we will be working with Division 4 to set up the “Pumpkin Patch” on the field for our Primary friends** We are excited to be able to be of service to our school!

Tuesday

• Language Arts, Math, Music in the morning (we may have Ms. Willis, our Indigenous Resource Teacher dropping in this morning)
• Social Studies, Gym in the afternoon

Wednesday

• Language Arts, Math, Library in the morning
• Social Studies in the afternoon

Thursday (Mrs. D’Agnolo)

• Language Arts, Gym (with Mr. Fong), Math in the morning
• French and ADST in the afternoon

Friday

• Halloween STEM activities, Music in the morning
• Ghoulish games in the classroom and gym in the afternoon

Monday:

• LA and Math (starting Unit 2) in the morning
• SS and Computer Lab in the afternoon

Tuesday:

• LA, Math, and Music in the morning
• SS and Gym in the afternoon

Wednesday:

• LA, Math, and Library in the morning
• SS in the afternoon

Thursday (with Ms. D’Agnolo):

• LA, Gym (with Mr. Fong), Math in the morning
• Open Book Exchange in the Library (optional), French

Friday:

• Professional Development Day, no school for students

Spooky Pumpkin Art

(construction paper, clear glue, chalk pastel)

Monday

• Enjoy your holiday!!

Tuesday

• PICTURE DAY…remember to look sharp 🙂
• LA, Math, Music in the morning
• Social Studies and Gym in the afternoon

Wednesday

• LA, Math, Library in the morning
• SS in the afternoon

Thursday (with Ms. D’Agnolo)

• LA, Math in the morning
• Open Book Exchange for Library, French in the afternoon

Friday

• LA, Music in the morning
• Math test #1: **This will be noted in the planner on Tuesday afternoon**
  • Want to study? I will have a study guide available for students to take home for practice tomorrow.
• Nature Walk with Ms. Willis (Indigenous Support Teacher)

Monday:

• LA
• Math
• Read-aloud
• Computer Lab (prepping for conferences)

Tuesday:

• LA
• Math
• Music
• Read-aloud
• Art (part 1: prepping for chalk pastel pumpkins), Gym

Wednesday:

• LA
• Math
• Library
• Art (part 2: finishing chalk pastel pumpkins)
• Conferences (afterschool)

Thursday (with Mrs. D’Agnolo):

• LA
• Math
• Read-aloud
• Early dismissal at 2:00 for conferences

Friday

• LA
• Math
• Music
• Read-aloud
• Class Meeting
• Gym
• Unfinished work/tying up loose ends from the week

Hello Division 5 families, and welcome to our classroom blog.

We will post things here about our learning activities from time to time. I am also planning to do a quick “preview” post on Fridays to give a brief idea of the week to come. This sometimes makes it easier to engage your child in a conversation about their school day when you can ask them about specific activities.

All Week:

• Reading Assessment Conferences to determine reading goals
• Math: Sequences and T-Tables

Monday:

• Terry Fox run
• Computer Lab: Career Education and Goal Setting

Tuesday

• Music
• Language Arts and Art activities for Orange Shirt Day
• Gym (possibly outside if weather cooperates)

Wednesday

• Orange Shirt Day
• Library
• introduction to community and management jobs in the City Game (a notice will be coming home explaining more about this year long classroom structure)

Thursday

• No School for National Day of Reconciliation

Friday

• “My Name” activity in Language Arts
• Music
• Gym

We did it! After going for progressively longer walks over the course of several weeks since Spring Break, Division 6 was ready to hike and hike we did!!

We left Friday morning right after attendance to set out on many familiar trails, and onto some new ones, too. Our route took us:

• Out along the Stoney Creek Trail behind the school
• Up the North Road Trails and left to Powerline Trail
• Further up Powerline Trail to the Trans-Canada Trail
• Trans-Canada Trail to Mel’s Trail
• Mel’s Trail to Upper Gear Jammer

We celebrated at the top with some Timbits, and promptly headed back down as it was windy and a bit chilly at the top of the mountain! Our route back was a little more direct down Gear Jammer to Upper Cut, then down Function Junction where we retraced the rest of the route back to the school.

All in all, a 12 km hike, according to my FitBit! Well done Division 6…and this will count toward our Walk30 total.

Click here for a map of the trails to see where we went.

The weather was wet for our walk in the wetlands! Thankfully we were dressed for the weather and ready to go. We walked to Burnaby Lake Regional Park, all the way to Piper Spit and the Lookout Tower. Along the way we noticed the important parts of the wetland ecosystem and marveled at all the wildlife we saw right here in the middle of the city! Here are just a few of the sights we saw…

p.s. we walked 9.9 km round trip, phew!

So far, we have explored Cameron Park, Maple Grove Park, and several trails at the base of Burnaby Mountain. We learned how to estimate the height of a tree using triangulation with a stick the length of our arms, played some cooperative PE games outdoors, completed a nature scavenger hunt, and worked together to build shelters.

Here are some of the forest shelters we built on Wednesday and some of the learning comments:

“The first time we got it all wrong and we were trying to build things separately and do different jobs. Now I can see we need to work together to build it.”

“The first time we didn’t have the frame quite right. We need to have a triangle with a beam across to make it more stable.”

“It’s really important to build a firepit because that’s where we will stay warm while we’re building the shelters and it’s important to have rocks around the edge so it doesn’t destroy the shelter and spread. And you can have ceremonies by it when the shelter is all finished.”

What did you learn? “Teamwork!”

Hello Music Students!

If you are wanting to login to the Music Play website to practice at home, please follow the instructions below:

Website:                      https://beta.musicplayonline.com

Login:                          Click on “Student”

Enter the code:          m582228

Explore!  Practice the songs we are learning in class (you can sing at home!)  Practice the Rhythms we are learning.  Play some of the games we know and love.

Have Fun!

Ms. Payjack