First Unit for 2021-22 on SYSTEMS!

 

Hello Everyone!

Now posted on our classroom wall is our first unit about the concept of SYSTEMS!

Unit Focus Statement:

Our personal choices play a role in how the interconnected system of the human body works.

Concept Guiding the Unit:  SYSTEMS

Core Competency Focus Areas: Personal Awareness & Critical Thinking

Areas of Inquiry:

  • The nature of systems and how we participate in them
  • The systems of the body and how they work together
  • Diseases and how the body defends against them
  • Choices and personal awareness that contribute to our overall well being
  • How we gather, organize, and interpret data to make healthy choices
  • Indigenous and world perspectives on health
  • How art and mindfulness practices are related to mental and physical wellness
  • French vocabulary and basic expressions about the human body

Learning Activities Coming Up:

  • Discussions about Universal Systems found everywhere through activities such as Roller Coaster Making and Scrappy Circuits
  • Investigations about body systems through rotating learning stations
  • Research on a body system of choice and writing a letter to the Human Body Corporation about why your system is the most important to the body
  • Gathering measurement data about ourselves and graphing it
  • Math from the book Math on the Job:Keeping us Healthy, practicing math used by health practitioners
  • Math games around data and probability, as well as lessons on mean, mode, and median.
  • Discussions and labs related to DNA/Genetics (Strawberry DNA extraction), Brain Science, Immunity, and Blood Types (not with real blood!)
  • Art activities related to personal exploration and mindfulness such as zentangling, black ink group art, and hive art.
  • Research on a Disease of our choice and presenting using PPT
  • More updates to come as we get into the unit!

Stay tuned on Twitter as I give daily pictures when possible related to our unit work.

Planners went home today, and a notice about payment is coming soon this week! We will fill these out daily. I write anything that is important to remember on the board at the end of the day. If nothing is written, there are no reminders or work to catch up on at this time. Planners need to come to school every day.

New Parent MACC Orientation is Wed. Sept. 15th 5-6 PM. Zoom invites were sent out via email.

Parent Conferences are on Sept. 22nd and 23rd. We have an early dismissal at 2PM on Sept. 22nd, and Sept. 23rd is a full day. You will receive a notice about how to sign up for a virtual meeting with me on MS Teams in the coming week.

Reading Around the World:  Booklets went home today. Please sign the letter at the front to acknowledge it was read and have them bring it back to show me this week. These duotangs can be kept in the backpack to have as a reference for books to read for the year. The program is optional. Reading is highly encouraged!

Kindly,

Ms. D