Ms. Bandarra's class blog

Today was our last full day of school. At closing circle we shared our thoughts of the best part of being in division 18. Field trips, kindness, new friends and having fun all came up from many students.
It was a pleasure to be with this group and watch they grow this school year. They are special, kind, funny and thoughtful ❤️
Wishing everyone a wonderful summer!

We celebrated the author’s in our class by having everyone read a finished book to a partner and then some people chose to read their Book to the whole class. Our students wrote a variety of stories and worked really hard on editing. Here are some photos of them sharing their work with each other.

Our class has been learning about different Indigenous Peoples traditional ways of living and students showed their learning of one of these groups of people in a diorama. Today they showcased their work to other classes and presented the information to others. Students used a variety of materials to created their diorama and used their creativity to build the homes and animals they needed to include. Below are photos from today.

What a fun morning! We are so glad the weather held up and everyone had fun at the different stations created by grade 7 students! Stations involved speed, balance, fine motor skills, throwing, agility, aiming, and having friendly competition!
Here are some photos that captured today:

We had a wonderful day at Barnet Beach today! Lots of playing, finding crabs, hanging out and building with sand! What a great way to end the week!

We lucked out with the weather and had an amazing field trip today!!
We enjoyed looking at all the animals and plants I aide the ecology center, it was super cool! We had a nature walk in which we collected living things from the forest and the river and then looked at them under the microscope. We had lunch outside and met the park rangers for a talk about their job and how they keep Lynn Canyon safe.
Overall we had a great day and learned a lot about living things in the forest ecosystem.

Today we were invited by Ms. Maks class to release their butterflies with them. It was so cool to see them coming out and flying away. Some didn’t fly away and we got to see them up close!

This week we gathered nature items in small groups to sort and then graph the items. Students got to use their math skills to create a graph. They had to name the graph and be able to tell us two things their graph was showing.
Here are some examples:

Today we worked together creating art to make a spring tree. We had sponged papers last week and today, as individuals and small groups, students created a variety of items to add to the tree by cutting and glueing papers. Our tree looks beautiful 🤩  The students were creative and worked collaboratively!

Today for our outdoor Wednesday theme we gathered items and created mandalas in small groups along with division 17. We discussed how mandalas needed to have a center, be round, have colour/patterns, and be symmetrical. We walked around the perimeter of the school block and created them at the magic forest. Check out their cool work!