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Good morning, Div. 4, 

Today is International Day of Pink! Who is wearing pink today (or your favourite colour)? Thanks for taking part in so many celebration activities! Can you choose another activity from yesterday’s list for this morning? 

Did anyone else see the full moon last night? It was also a Super Moon! It is pretty cool to think about how we can all look at the moon from all the different places we live. It reminds me of the stories and science experiment we did to understand how the moon phases change. 

As you keep creating and exploring, here is another Mystery Science: How are Toys Invented?  Like the inventor in this mystery, what is a time you thought, “what is a new thing I could do from what I learned”?

This afternoon…

This afternoon, you will be receiving access to your Microsoft Teams account. It is very important to remember the expectations of being a digital citizen. Please make sure that what you are posting is appropriate and kind. You have already been showing this in all your blog post comments. Thank you for being your kind, thoughtful selves online.

Before exploring Teams please watch this video that explains how to log on to Teams and use some of its features. 

Your first challenge will be an scavenger hunt of the Teams program! You can start the scavenger hunt this afternoon or tomorrow! Stay tuned for an email coming this afternoon with more details. 

Wow! Another innovative idea by our classmates! Carson and Blaize and their dad, Dean, are hosting a lego building contest for UHE students. I know that many of our Div. 4 students love to build. I can’t wait to see your creations! There are so many ways we can stay connected and celebrate our community, while staying apart. 

Please see the details below:

Burnaby Mountain Lego Building Contest!

We’ve been inspired to hold a lego building contest for any UHE students to spark some fun & creativity during these challenging times.

What: Lego pieces only. Original creations please.

Who: Any students currently enrolled in University Highlands Elementary on Burnaby Mountain can participate.

How: Entries can be emailed to dean@deanwegman.com

When: Picture must submitted on or before April 30th 12pm. Only one submission per student please and include the classroom teacher for reference.

Judges: Lego Jr masters Carson & Blaize Wegman (ages 7 & 9 years old) will be judging based on creativity and “wow” factor

Prizes:

1st place: $50 Nesters Gift Card
2nd place: $30 Nesters Gift Card
3rd place: $20 Nesters Gift Card

Gift cards to be distributed May 1st to the lucky winners in a safe appropriate manner.

Good morning, Division 4 and 5, 

This is certainly an interesting time in our world. Although it can sometimes feel like we are far away from our family and friends, in some ways it can also bring us closer together. We might be making more time to call or send letters to loved ones. We have been spending time with our immediate families, creating, sharing, and learning together. Everyone is working together to keep our community safe and healthy. 

With perfect timing, tomorrow is International Day of Pink. This day is about celebrating the diversity in our community and standing up against discrimination. Kindness and support are exactly what we all need right now. Usually, Div. 4 and 5 students come together to create and collaborate, but this year will be a little different. 

Today, we want you to think about how you can spread kindness and appreciation in your community in this unique situation. We would like everyone to share a message with their community to show we are all connected, even from afar.

Choose one or more activities for celebrating our community:

• Create a window sign of encouragement, support, or gratitude for our essential services workers and/or our community. 
• Take part in the 7pm cheer for health care workers
• Create a sign of support for a local business and email it to Ms. Carley, Ms. Yee, and/or Mr. Harding to print and deliver – how can we stay connected to our local businesses?
• Write a letter to a family member 
• Call a loved one
• Create a message to share on the blog
• Can you play an online game with a friend?
• Wear pink on Wednesday (or wear your favourite colour)
• Come up with another way to encourage your community. How can we celebrate diversity from a far?

Best of luck spreading kindness today and tomorrow as we celebrate International Day of Pink from home. Send me photos of your signs and messages so I can post them on the blog to encourage our community!

A few other notes:

• Reminder: At 10am today, Doug will be doing a live stream of his Mystery Science show. Feel free to tune in with your families and friends!
• Can you please let me know if you have lost or left your recorder at school? 

One of our classmates, Annika has come up with an innovative idea for a “Quarantine Easter egg hunt”.

This year there is no Easter egg hunt because of social distancing, so I came up with the idea that we paint rocks instead of eggs and hide them around the trails, which I think is a good idea because A) It gives me something to do other than homeschooling and lying around like a spare dishtowel. B) It is like an Easter egg hunt but it still encourages social distancing. C) It gets everyone to get outside and hike, including the person who hides the rocks. And D) It’s really fun to look for potential rocks and then paint them to make them beautiful. Me and my family have pearlescent and iridescent paint, along with glitter paint, to make all the rocks shiny! We have a strawberry, a ladybug, a pickle, a couple galaxy themed ones, and some that are just plain opalescent, and that can stand out on the trails! – Annika

Connect with Annika to find out more! Do you have an innovative idea to share with your class?

* Taking a photo of Easter “eggs” you find, instead of collecting them lets the game continue in a safe and fun way! *

Good Morning, Division 4, 

I hope you and your families had a lovely weekend together. It was so wonderful connecting with all of your families last week. I loved hearing about all the things you are doing with your families – going for walks, playing with your siblings, reading together, writing stories, building, sharing gratitude, calling your grandparents, creating science experiments, designing math challenges, and so much more. 

Later this week, you will be receiving your Div. 4 Microsoft Teams account. In the meantime, don’t forget that you can also use your Microsoft 365 One Drive account and Eportfolio to be expressing your learning.

See if you can start your new “school” week routines today! What will be your shape of the day?

Here are some ideas for today:

• Try a mystery science: How does your heart pump blood? Have you explored the circulatory system of your AIP animal? Does its body system work the same way? 
  • Tomorrow, Tuesday 7th, there is a LIVE mystery science with Doug at 10:00AM!
• You can practice your typing using All the Right Type (check your planner for your account information, but let me know if you want me to re-send it!)
• Go for a walk with your family and take some photos of things that inspire you! Check on your spring bud!
• Will you continue your gratitude journal this week? 
• Check out  Tumble Books
  • You can read books, do quizzes, and even a simple “book report”. If you finish a quiz or book report, please press “print” but then put your settings to “print to PDF” so you can save a copy of your work on your computer!
• Math: Close to 100: (from YouCubed:  http://tiny.cc/v0mqlz ) You can either download the handout OR create your own grid by drawing the lines with a ruler. Use a 10×10 grid (or less as an adaptation) 
  • Goal is to fill the grid paper with math arrays. 
  • Roll 2 dice (or 1 if you only have one). 
  • Each die is a number. On the grid, colour in the squares. It can be anywhere on the grid. 
  • Record the number sentence (Eg. 2 x 3 = 6) at the bottom of the grid or on another piece of paper. 
  • Keep going until you have filled the grid as much as possible. How many squares are left? 
  • NOTE: this activity can be one person or two people. If two people, each person can use a different coloured pencil. 
• Continue a project from last week!

Here are a few more featured artists, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers from Division 4 to start your week!

Keep sharing your awesome photos! And be sure to let me know which photos are shareable for the blog!

Good Morning, Division 4! 

I hope you have enjoyed learning and exploring with me this week. If we haven’t already spoke on the phone, I will be calling your family today. 

Here are some more activities for you to explore today and this weekend. Feel welcome to send me some photos of what you do!

• Explore Mystery Science: How do magicians trick people?
  • (You don’t need to print the activity, you can draw your own!)
• Write your Gratitude Journal #3
• Daily physical activity challenge: Try a Just Dance workout!
• Create a Duolingo account to practice your French
• Find a topic that interests you at True Flix
• Go on a virtual field trip
• Surprise Art: You can try one of these videos to create a folding surprise art piece. Click here for a folding surprise puppy stack, click here for folding surprise shark, click here for surprise poke ball
• Continue a project you already started!

Check out some of our featured artists and scientists for this week! 

How does spring inspire us? 

How can we use shadows to create art? 

How can we use our understanding to create germ models? 

How can we learn through experimentation?

Good Morning Division 4, 

Wishing you a wonderful day! I look forward to talking to your families today and tomorrow. 

What is a “T” word that could go in today’s title? Add your ideas in the blog post comments!

Here are some activities for you today:

• Continue a project you already started!
• Explore Mystery Science: Why do we celebrate April Fool’s Day?
• Write your Gratitude Journal #2
• ADST – How can you build the tallest tower? (With parent-approved materials!)
• Daily physical activity challenge: how many jumping jacks can you do today? (You can add them up throughout the day!)

Dear Families, 

I look forward to connecting with you on Thursday or Friday. Please feel free to complete this form prior to our meeting, if you would like. This will also help let me know when would be best to call you. 

Talk to you soon,

Ms. Carley

Gratitude

Spring by S.E.

Good morning Division 4,

I wanted to start this morning with some gratitude. I am grateful for our amazing class community full of creative, thoughtful, and kind children and families.  I am so grateful to be connected to all of you as your classroom teacher. I am grateful for the photos and messages you have sent me. I am grateful for the conversations I have had with you this week, and the conversations we will continue to have. I am thankful for our opportunities to be safe and stay connected during this time. I am grateful for the memories of earlier this year in the classroom, and excited for all the new memories we are going to create next. I am thankful for having an opportunity to learn new things, and a family who encourages me when things are challenging. These are some of the things I am grateful for on this Wednesday morning. 

For today, I would love for you to take some time to create a gratitude journal entry – what are you grateful for? Who are you grateful for? While you are writing or drawing, I want you to notice how you feel. Perhaps you could even start each day this week with a gratitude entry.

Please remember that everything I post on the blog is an invitation to explore. Please take your time and do only what is a good fit for you and your family.

I hope you have a wonderful day,

Ms. Carley

Ideas 

Here are a few ideas to add to the others:

• Art & Writing
  • Join Mo Willems for Lunchtime doodles! In the episode #2 video, Mo talks about Piggie and Gerald (our favourite!!). At 12:55, he teaches us how to draw Gerald. Can you come up with an idea for a new Piggie and Gerald story? Can you come up with your own cartoon?
  • At 24:10  Mo shows us a letter doodle game! What letter doodle will you do?
• Daily Physical Activity
  • Today’s challenge is to practice three or more yoga poses. See how it feels to take a few yoga breaks today.

One more gratitude note… I am thankful for my sidekicks, Gaia and Nemo.

Good Morning, Division 4!

Welcome to our second day. I miss seeing all of your smiling faces in class!

As I continue to work with the other teachers, here are some more ideas for you to explore. You might already be working on other projects with your family, activities from yesterday, or you might want to explore the ideas from the Burnaby School District website. Some activities might even take several days! You can choose what you would like to put into your “shape of the day” – it will look different for everyone.

Take your time and have fun! You can even take a photo of your learning adventure and send it to me.

Ideas for Learning Activities 

• Explore Burnaby School District Learning Website
• Science
  • Here is a mystery science activity for you: How does hand sanitizer work? First watch the video (bacteria and virus images from a microscope are shown), then design your own “little alien robot” germ! Give it a name 🙂
• Math
  • How do you use math at home in your daily life? Think of as many ways as possible!
  • Map Your Home
    • Draw your home layout from a “bird’s-eye-view”
    • Include furniture (remember to draw it like you’re looking at from the ceiling)
    • Use estimation—for example, how much of that wall is taken up by that dresser? 1/2? ¼
    • How big is the kitchen compared to the living room?
• Reading 
  • Read, read, read!
  • Listen to a story read from an astronaut in space
• Writing
  • Word collectors: Keep collecting!
  • Can you use your words in a haiku poem (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables)?
  • Can you write a haiku about staying home? 
• Daily Physical Activity
  • Remember to take lots of physical activity breaks! 
  • Daily challenge: how many sit ups can you do today? (You can add them up throughout the day!)
• Art 
  • Can you use shadows to create art? (I will try to post a photo later of my shadow art)