Happy Chinese New Year to all of our families who are celebrating! We wish you good fortune and good health. If anyone would like to come in and speak to our class about the festivities taking place, please let me know :)! Div. 4, if you have any pictures or something you’d like to share with our class related to Chinese New Year, let me know as well. This will be a great way to supplement the research we have been doing on the lunar calendar.

Here is a quick link to an interesting article I found about what the year of the rat will mean for you. 

Chinese Zodiac Predictions

We chose to start off Term 2 with an exciting new read aloud. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown is a story about survival, friendship, and overcoming difficult situations. We will soon be posting about our favourite characters and predictions we have. However, we promise not to spill the beans just in case anyone wants to read it for themselves!

We have begun our study of current events and non-fiction texts. For practice, students have been asked to analyze different news articles and how these events are impacting others and themselves. Below are the articles we read in class today. If you happen to find any articles you think are interesting or think the rest of the class should know about, please send them my way :). 

Bionic Limbs

Australian Wildfires

Mars Rover

Hi Everyone,

It was wonderful to meet all of you at the intake meetings last week. If I have not yet had a chance to conference with you either in person or by phone we can always reschedule at your convenience. 

Some upcoming dates that you should be aware of are the following: 

Nature Walk Field Trip – Oct. 10 in the morning

Young Peoples Concert – Oct. 9 in the morning

Golf Field Trip – Oct. 18th and Oct. 21st in the afternoon

Please continue to check your child’s planner so they can become more responsible when organizing themselves between home and school. 

Thank you for your support!

Hi Everyone,

Here are some important reminders for the week as students have not yet received their planners. 

• Scholastic orders are due Sept. 24
• Food orders for the Welcome Back BBQ are done online and should be completed as soon as possible
• OWL Kids form is due as soon as possible
• Please bring in school supplies 
• Bring in a banned book
• Return student verification form by Sept. 17

Hi Everyone, 

Welcome back to school! I hope you have all had a restful and enjoyable summer break. I can’t wait to get started and am looking forward to getting to know all of you. In the upcoming weeks, you will receive your login and password for your  E-portfolio. This is a tool used to better communicate your learning with your parents. Our class syllabus and expectations will be distributed in the following days. 

Happy learning!

Ms. Ramen

Dear Division 3 Students & Parents,

I have so enjoyed getting to know all of you over this past year!

Parents, thank you for your constant support and taking such an active role in your child’s education. 

Division 3, I am so proud to have witnessed your tremendous growth this year. You all have become more confident in your ability to take on new challenges and unknown situations. Grade 6s, I wish you all the best in your Grade 7 year. I am very excited to see you make your mark on our school community and develop into leaders of the school. Grade 5s, I am hopeful that you will also continue to develop your leadership capabilities and I know that you will have a successful year in Grade 6! 

Have a wonderful summer! Keep in touch 🙂

Love,

Ms. Ramen

Welcome back, Div. 3!

I hope you all had  a relaxing break 🙂 I am excited for the term ahead and all of the different subject areas we are going to be exploring. Our class blogging crew will be updating our website from now on. Please check out their posts! 

This book is our read aloud. It is called Posted by John David Anderson. It is an interesting book because it is about a boy in middle school.He just wants to be normal but that changes when cellphones get banned. The lesson in this story is that words aren’t just words they can be used as gifts or weapons. 

By: Eason 

Hi Div.3,

Please remember to complete your Fear Paragraph and your research for your sub-question for Science by Tuesday. You may submit it through Google Classroom or as a paper copy to me in person.