with Ms. Lai & Ms. Loungsay
Diwali is also known as the Festival of Lights! We learned Diwali is India’s biggest holiday of the year! Diwali is a 5 day celebration. People decorate their homes and meals are shared with families and friends. They also celebrate with fireworks and gifts are given to children.
Diyas are small type of lamp or candle holders lit on Diwali.
We painted poppies on our hands
We also read “The Peace Book” by Todd Parr and talked about what gives us peace.
I feel peace when I am…
“loved”
“loved by my mom”
“with my brother”
“with my family”
“playing with my friends”
“playing with my mom”
“with my teachers”
“my dad carries me”
“getting hugs”
“nice”
“kind and sharing toys”
“with my cats”
“watching T.V.”
“with my hamster”
“at a park”
Our class has been learning about apples this term! Here are some highlights from our apple exploration.
We used our sense of smell, sight, touch and hearing to explore the apple trees in our park.
“The bug is eating the apple!”
“Ew! The apple smells bad!”
“This one is rotten.”
“The tree is bumpy.”
“I hear something inside!”
“I hear nothing.”
We used our sense of taste to find out which apple is our favourite – red, yellow or green.
“The red one is crunchy and hard.”
“The Green one is very sour!”
“The yellow is really good!”
We found out most people like the red apple! It’s a tie for the green apple and the yellow apple.
We did an experiment to see if the apple will sink or float. The predictions were 10 for it will sink and 5 for it will float! We were pretty excited to see it float!
Making colour patterns with apples
Making art with yarn
On Orange Shirt Day, we learned it is a day to honour children that have survived residential schools, and to remember the lives that were lost. Our class read a story called “I Hope”, which captures the adults’ hope for children. After the story, we brainstormed “words of hope” that will make all children feel safe and respected in our school community. We then created stitched hearts to honour the hearts of all children, especially the Indigenous children and families.
Terry Fox is a symbol of hope in Canadian history. Through books and discussion, Division 12 learned who Terry Fox was, why he did his Marathon of Hope, and why we do a Terry Fox Run every year at school.
Division 11 had so much fun thinking, creating and solving problems with one another! The Applied design, skills and technologies (ADST) curriculum encourages children to think, design and build. We explored with simple tools and technologies that can help us with our ideas and extend our capabilities. We were able to develop our skills through play and teamwork.
Bee Bots – program the little robot to move in many directions (a pre-cursor to coding)
The gallery was not found!
Weaving – choose a tool and material, and make a product (wall art) through the modelling of others
Keva Blocks – create a structure by stacking wood planks using no glue or connectors
Dominoes – build a domino race track and watch them go tumbling down
Snap Circuits – build a variety of circuits that do something like turn on a light or run a fan
Boxitects – create extraordinary things out of ordinary cardboard
Coding Safari – learn the fundamentals of coding through this animal themed logic game
Thank you Division 11 for participating in Jump Rope for Heart this year! Our school discovered fun ways to get active and learned about helping others while raising money to beat heart disease and stroke. A very special thank you to Division 3 for organizing this year’s Jump Rope for Heart program!