Month: February 2021

We started off on Monday with a Zoom Presentation on Fresh Water in Metro Vancouver.  It was put on by the Green Bricks Education Society and was very well done.   The amount of information we took away was heartening. The care and management of our public freshwater infrastructure left me with pride.

After reviewing what we learned, each student was asked to write 3 facts that were new to them and/or made an impression.  I will be uploading those to their blogfolios shortly.

Then… our salmon eggs hatched!  We now have alevin exploring the bottom of the tank (can’t swim any higher).  The kids are super excited.

Following that exciting event, came our exploration of the Asian Lunar New Year.

We read PoPo’s Lucky Chinese New Year by Virginia Loh-Hagan and watched a video on Seollal, the Korean name for Lunar New Year.  On Thursday, we dressed in red and traditional clothing (Hanbok).  They received a red envelope with ‘chocolate money’ and a few other traditional treats.  It was a lot of fun to share knowledge and happiness as these are important traditional holidays for many of our students, and what better activity in a Covid Year but to appreciate being together.

Lastly, we celebrated Valentine’s Day.

Thank you to all the parents who sent Valentine’s cards.  In our social-emotional learning, we have watched a few videos on gratitude sent to us by Mrs. Blair, our school counselor.  The students understand that giving is a source of happiness and the Valentine cards you sent, let us put action to those emotions.

Have a great long weekend!

This unit has been lengthy, but we continue to work hard on these basic skills.  Today’s lesson was on problem-solving and the language that we need to understand in order to solve our word problems.

After teaching the lesson on specific language to look for when creating an equation, the students started their practice using their whiteboards.  One problem at a time was delivered to each student.  They were asked to also focus on the Personal Core Competency of “perseverance”.  They did just that.  They diligently persevered through many attempts with different strategies.  We even learned how using simpler numbers in the same word problem can help us to find the steps on how to solve the harder numbers.  Nicely done Div. 5.   Wednesday and Thursday, we’ll finish up the lesson and continue to practice with our text.