Div. 16 has been learning about the autumn (fall) season. When asking them what they see in the fall, many children replied seeing, “leaves fall from trees” or “different coloured leaves”. Students collected different coloured leaves to graph. These same leaves are now at the provocation table for a Leaf Man activity. Students are invited…
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween! Happy Diwali! Here are two fun activities Division 16 participated in today. Halloween Stem Challenge: Challenge: Can you trap the ghost inside a haunted house? Materials: Ghost, paper plate, unifix cubes and snap cubes Challenge accepted! The students were ready to build a haunted house to keep the ghost inside. Look at our…
5 Pumpkins on the Gate STEM Challenge
STEM Challenge: Build a gate and put the pumpkins sitting on the gate. Materials: Plastic pumpkins, clothespins, popsicle sticks Without given instructions of how to build a gate, the students kept trying different strategies until their gates stood up by itself with pumpkins sitting on top of them.
Falling Leaves
The students are learning about the autumn season through a variety of ways. One of the things they learned is that many trees lose leaves during this time of year. Leaves fall off of trees and can be red, orange, yellow, green, or brown in colour. Each student collected a leaf and we graphed it…
Haunted House Patterns
Students are learning about repeating patterns. Look in the spooky haunted houses. What do you see?
More Pumpkins!
We continue to learn about pumpkins through various activities in many subject areas. Take a look at some of the activities we have done at school! Learning “I’m a Little Pumpkin” and “Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate” song/poem for the assembly. Please have your child continue practicing these two song/poem for the Halloween…
Digital Literacy: Being Kind When Using Technology
Today, your child learned how to be kind and respectful to others, both in-person and when using technology. If you would like to continue this conversation at home, here are some questions you could ask your child: How can you be kind to others? What did you learn about using technology? How can we use…
Being Thankful
This year, Thanksgiving is on Monday, October 14. There will be no school that day. Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful and thankful for what we have in our lives. Thank you for entrusting your child to me this school year. I will try my best to support them in their growth and learning….
Exploring Pumpkins
Last week we went on a field trip to Laity Pumpkin Patch-south side. The students had a blast there going through the different stations and they also enjoyed picking their own pumpkin. This afternoon, the students got to explore and learn more about pumpkins through four stations: Roll a Pumpkin- Math dice activity Observe and…
Every Child Matters
Truth and Reconciliation Day is celebrated on September 30. It was founded in 2014 because of a formal residential student named Phyllis Webstad who wore an orange shirt to the first day of school and had it taken from her. Orange Shirt Day is about recognizing the harmful impact of the residential school system on…