Dear students and families,

We hope you had a good Thanksgiving last weekend! Although I was happy to have an extra day to spend with family, I was sad that I missed a day with our students!

This past week, we focussed on kindness. We listened to a story called Ish (click to watch the story) by Peter Reynolds. It’s one of my favourite books!

As writers, we continued to work on paragraph writing. This time we wrote about what kindness means to me. We shared the writing of classmates that really showcase exemplary work. On Friday, I introduced the single-point rubric that I use to assess. They chose the paragraph they felt most exemplified their best personal writing and self-assessed their work. Next, I will review and provide my comments. From the exercise, they will learn about their areas of strengths and areas where they can improve.

In O365 Teams > Assignments > Writer’s Workshop, they are writing a story. At the bottom of their work online, you will see a different single-point rubric. This one is for creative story writing. You will see the targets students are working towards.

As Mathematicians, we continued to work on our understanding of numbers and place value. We began practicing skip counting by using graph paper to keep us organized.

As scientists, after choosing our rocks, we made and recorded our observations. I loved seeing and listening to their excitement about the small details they were noticing about their rocks!

Students were excited to continue to work on their Passion Projects. If you would like to see some of the previous projects, click here to go to last year’s blog post.

As always, thank you for your continued support at home! We appreciate you!

Sincerely, Ms. Chan and Ms. Paulich