And just like that……..we will not be back at school until April! Wow, time sure is flying by.
We want to wish you all a wonderful and restful few weeks off. We hope you all have a chance to enjoy some Spring weather and maybe even do a little exploring. Whether you are staying close to home or heading off on a holiday, make sure you get outside and have some fun!
As we say good-bye to March, we wanted to give you a heads up on some things happening in April that you can all look forward to. Most importantly, we will be seeing Mrs. Davis back on her usual days! We cannot wait to have her back! On our calendar this month you will see:
- Track and Field- some of you signed up for this school sport
and practices will be starting the first Wednesday back, April 3rd at 8am. We will practice every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 am for the whole month.
Progress Reports will be going home on
Thursday, April 4th. We hope you enjoy sharing all your progress and celebrate your successes! You have all worked very hard.
Our Entrepreneur Sale will be taking place April 10th and 11th. We will be inviting Grade 4/5 classes to come in and shop and hopefully all your creations will sell out. Because we had plenty of time to build our products in class, it is expected that our first week back after the break will be spent preparing our store fronts, creating price lists, preparing any advertising, and maybe even creating some receipts to track our progress.
Family Movie night is a Grade 7 fundraiser happening on 
Friday, April 12th at 7pm here in the school gym. Are you going to attend?
Student Led conferences will be happening the afternoon and early evening of Thursday April 18th. We will be preparing
for our parents to visit and we are sure they are going to enjoy seeing all that you have done and do here in the classroom everyday!
Phew, April is looking to be another fabulous month for us. We hope you are as excited as we are. 
The next few weeks are sure going to help us refuel and recharge before what is turning out to be a fun and exciting, third term!
For your blog response today, just let us know you have read the blog with your parents by sending a quick “YES” in this weeks blog response homework page.
Once again, we wish you a fabulous break! See you all again in April.
Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Gil
My father is elderly and lives alone. He has a brain disease called Dementia and up until very recently, the help I was providing him was enough and he was managing quite well. Unfortunately, things have changed suddenly and he needs much more help now. There are several things that need to be done to best support him and it takes time to set those up. 
I am so grateful to Mrs. Gil for stepping into the four days that I will be missing so that you don’t have a TOC in my place. Thank you Div. 6 for your understanding. I look forward to seeing you again in April when we all come back after Spring Break.
we managed to soldier on and get some things done. It is almost Spring Break and so we are trying to wrap up some things so we can have a fresh start in April. We have been researching about Extreme Environments in Science by reading non-fiction texts and pulling out important ideas and details for note taking. In Math, we continued to explore how fractions are related to decimals. Finally, we spent a lot of time working on our ADST projects, creating products for our stores.
Now that you have some background knowledge about each place, you are going to be asked to choose the one that most interests you. Using that environment as a guide, you are going to create a Robot that can help us survive exploring that environment. This is your chance to think creatively about all the challenges faced in the environment you choose and come up with some ideas about how someone could safely research there. This is where critical thinking and creative thinking come together in a very fun way!
Specifically, we have been going back to our understanding of place value and are now able to see the relationship between 1/10 (one tenth) and .01 (one tenth). 
It is becoming clear now how each unit of mathematics we study this year builds on what we have learned in the past. The relationship between whole numbers, place value, and fractions is becoming quite clear now and all of you are really getting the hang of it! After Spring Break, we will be moving into working on operations with decimals.
****Reminder to parents and students, a tri-fold poster board which can be found at a local dollar store is required for each store. The students should have included this in their operating budget and should be here NO LATER than April 2nd. We can see you are all excited for the sale and so are we. Your products are all turning out wonderfully!
A meeting was held on Friday at lunch and all interested students should be bringing home a notice with more information about future practice and meet dates.
and Progress Reports will be going home later next week as well.