Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment.

• Why is water important for all living things?
• How can you conserve water in your home and school?
• How does water cycle through the environment?

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Our Gr 2’s were introduced to a new mathematical tool this week, the ruler!

We explored the confines of our classroom and compared the height, length and width of various objects using standard units of measure, centimetres.

We also began estimating length. By visually looking at two objects, we learned how to make a logical and rationale estimate of length. After our estimation was made, we then accurately measured the two objects and recorded our findings in centimetres.

Parkcrest had the privilege in welcoming Coach Jamie from the Burnaby Lakers Lacrosse team into our school. We had the opportunity to receive two lacrosse lessons. We had an in-depth look at the safety equipment that is used by each player in the game, as well as the proper equipment that is used in the game.

During the first lesson, we learned the fundamental skills that are used in the game. Once we were comfortable and confident with the taught skills, we then played some games.

Like many group sports, Lacrosse serves many benefits to your child’s well being.

• It will instill a sense of discipline in your child that will spill over to everyday life.

• The game of Lacrosse requires players to be alert and observant, as a result this will improve mental agility and concentration levels in your child.

• Lacrosse will teach the importance of patience to your child, as it involves a lot of practice and patience to get a scoring goal on the field.

• Playing Lacrosse also involves an immense amount of physical exercise. It will help to improve your child’s overall mental and physical development.

• As Lacrosse is a team sport, your child will learn how to interact with different people and reach a common goal. It will improve your child’s social skills as well as learn to read body language.

Coding? What is Coding?

Today we were introduced to a hot topic, Coding. Coding, also called programming, is a skill-set that students will be using in their future, such as high school, University and perhaps even a career as a skilled coder or programmer. Coding is a beneficial skill to add to our tool-belts as it also supports our development in perseverance and problem-solving.

Today we used the fundamental concepts of coding by following the instructions of a code and successfully followed it. The students caught onto this like wild fire. Stay tuned as we will be incorporating this coding concept into an upcoming Social Studies project.

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Do you ever get a bee in your bonnet, or knots in your tummy all due to a worry? This can be very common for many of us. Sometimes we can have worry thoughts that come into our mind and quickly exit, and or, there are other times when these worries can weigh heavy upon us and it proves great difficulty to get these ideas out of our head.

We created The Worry Cauldron as a safe place to write down or draw our worries so that we can let them go from our mind and our heart. By letting go of our worries, allows us to move on with our day and be present.