{"id":5945,"date":"2018-01-07T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2018-01-07T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:55:17","slug":"welcome-back-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/2018\/01\/07\/welcome-back-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5950 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/files\/2018\/01\/newyear2018_20-cd86058cc24747993bda2eb844d21d3f-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/files\/2018\/01\/newyear2018_20-cd86058cc24747993bda2eb844d21d3f-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/files\/2018\/01\/newyear2018_20-cd86058cc24747993bda2eb844d21d3f.png 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope you had a wonderful time with friends&nbsp;and family this holiday season! I got lots of skiing in, spent time in the mountains and snow, and celebrated the season with my loved ones. I&#8217;m happy to welcome in a new year with you all and look forward to a new term!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s coming up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be watching <em><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Wonder<\/strong><\/span><\/em> (based on the novel written by R.J. Palacio) this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Thursday, January 11th<\/strong><\/span>. This Monday is the last day to submit your permission form and money. No exceptions, as we need to give numbers to the theatre in advance.<\/li>\n<li>The following week, we will be <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>SNOWSHOEING<\/strong><\/span> up at Mount Seymour, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Wednesday, January 17th.<\/strong><\/span> Please be sure to have all appropriate clothing acquired in advance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New term changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With <em>Word Nerd<\/em> now done, class discussions, A\/B share-outs and prediction\/blog writing is now coming to an end too. We will be turning our attention to Lit Circles and reading in smaller groups together. I look forward to introducing some new novels to the class which follow themes around Science Fiction and Distopias.<\/li>\n<li>In Science, we will begin a new term by extending our unit in Evolution to include the fossil record, geologic dating, and understanding the evidence of climate change.<\/li>\n<li>In ADST, we will be putting our beading projects behind us (please complete your works of art at home), and will be moving into design and creation of a prototype\/tool from an ancient civilization (cross-curricular with Social Studies).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now! I look forward to seeing your cheery faces, bright and early Monday, January 8th.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Happy New Year everyone!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/files\/2018\/01\/Happy-New-Year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5951 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/files\/2018\/01\/Happy-New-Year.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"351\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you had a wonderful time with friends&nbsp;and family this holiday season! I got lots of skiing in, spent time in the mountains and snow, and celebrated the season with my loved ones. I&#8217;m happy to welcome in a new year with you all and look forward to a new term! What&#8217;s coming up: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}