This integrated unit involved:
ADST -prototyping, food safety, and making their pizza to show creativity, originality, and bold flavors.
Math-financial literacy (budgeting).
Health-Nutrition and menu/recipe planning and the exploration of healthy/unhealthy ingredients.
French-food vocabulary and how to order pizza in French.
Students really enjoyed planning for this activity and made some incredible pizzas. The whole school smelled amazing and the judges were left salivating over their final creations. Once the pizzas were judged, students got to enjoy their final creations. They all turned out great and there was very little if any remaining pizza. Well done Division 3!
Today for Young People’s Concert students got to see Kutapira perform. Kutapira is a fusion of Zimbabwean Marimba, Afro-Cuban & West African rhythms, Reggae, Samba, Afrobeat, Funk, Jazz, Cumbia, Disco and Hip Hop.
What started out thirteen years ago as a youth world music initiative has metamrphosized into the crowd pleasing percussion explosion known today as Kutapira.
The name Kutapira means “sweetness” in the Shona language of Zimbabwe, a fitting title for a band that plays a fusion of Zimbabwean marimba with West African and Afro-Cuban percussion.
For years they performed exclusively as a mallet swinging, skin-slapping quintet but now, in their latest evolutionary form, feature guitar, vocals and electric bass.
Students thoroughly enjoyed the performance and liked learning about the different instruments and how they are constructed to create their sounds.
Dear Parents, Guardians, and Students,
My name is Kristina Badley and I will be returning to Aubrey Elementary as a student teacher in your child’s classroom over the next couple months. Some of you may already know me from last year when I completed my short practicum in Ms. Smith’s class.
A little bit about me! I completed my Bachelor of General Science (BGS) in education with a triple minor in learning disabilities, curriculum and social justice this past spring. I have also recently completed my Graduate Diploma of Education (GDE) with my focus being classroom specialist.
My teaching journey began in the arts and over the years, I have been fortunate to be able to share my passion for dance and piano with countless youth of all ages through my community involvement with various private piano and dance studios. I greatly cherish all the relationships I have been able to build and look forward to the many more I will be sure to build! Besides teaching, some things I enjoy are spending time with my family (and my two furry friends!), baking, climbing and trying different hot chocolate flavours!
I look forward to meeting you all in the coming weeks as I begin my final classroom experience with Ms. Smith!
Kindest Regards,
Ms. Badley
Dear Families of Division 5,
On Thursday April 27th, our school will be having an early dismissal at 2 pm to accommodate student-led conferences. Families are invited to join their child for a 15-20 minute student led conference where your child will present some of their learning and show you around the classroom.
At the time of the conference, 4 other families will be meeting with their child in the same room. Students will conduct their own conferences with their families. I will be there to offer clarification or assistance if needed, however, this time is not a time for us to meet or discuss concerns or questions you may have about your child’s academic or social emotional needs, but rather it is a time for your child to showcase their learning and discuss goals and next steps.
Below is a link where you can sign up for a time that works for you to attend your child’s conference. Please keep in mind there are only 4 slots available for each timeframe. If for any reason you are unable to attend in person or these times do not work for your family please email me so that I can have your child bring home a portfolio of work so that they can conduct their conference with you at home.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0944AAAE23ABFBC61-signup
If you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out. It’s always exciting when students get the opportunity to share what they’ve learned and set goals for where they are going next. I look forward to seeing you all in person as you celebrate your child’s achievements.
Regards,
Ms. Smith
Image 1: Daffodils we planted this fall 
Image 2: Potatoes we planted before Spring Break 
Recently in class students participated in a climate justice and climate change simulation. In this simulation students learned about the consequences of climate change, the injustice, and effects of climate change often experienced by vulnerable populations around the world.
Students work in groups to build communities and attempt to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies while experiencing the impacts of climate change (droughts, tropical storms, rising sea levels, and other impacts of climate change).
Some of the takeaways were:
Climate change is affecting those who are often contributing the least. The people hit the hardest are those already living in poverty and at higher risk.
The simulation also highlighted the affects that climate change is going to have on people.
– Climate change is affecting our ability to grow food. Growing seasons are disrupted or shortened and storms, droughts, and floods all
affect harvest outcomes.
– Climate change is affecting where and how we live making people relocate and find new homes after generations of living in one area. It is also causing extreme storms, rising sea level, melting permafrost, etc.
-Climate change directly affects human health and safety and can lead to the spread of diseases (like malaria), heat waves, wild fires, air pollution.
This lesson is going to be one of many climate change lessons as we explore more sustainable ways of being and doing in our world in an attempt to protect the planet.
After Spring Break students will also be participating in Indigo’s Read for the Planet Program and as a classroom we will be exploring ways we can take action in our school and the broader community to combat climate change and keep our planet healthy for more years to come
Students are naturally curious about the world in which they live. They want to know more about their planet and are concerned with the challenges we face. Reading and learning together with your child is a safe and supportive way to develop awareness and ideas for ways to care for the planet. Reading about how to care for the planet can also help deepen connections to other people and the planet—connections critical for understanding the challenges and opportunities being faced in communities around our planet.
The attached resource was designed by the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation in partnership with our curriculum partner, The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2) as an extension of our school-based Read For The Planet learning modules. We know that schools are just one place students learn and that home is a critical space for expanding on and practicing what happens in the classroom. This guide provides parents and caregivers with book suggestions, worksheets, discussion prompts and a template for a home-based action project all to help you and your little changemaker to get inspired through reading and have fun while learning about the environment together.
Lesson Retrieved From: http://www.mcic.ca/uploads/documents/Climate%20Justice-Final%20PDF%202022.pdf
Black History Month
By: Ashley
Black History Month
By: Ashley lyske
Black History is an important part of our history that we must
Learn about, and
Acknowledge.
Carter G. Woodson started Black History in 1996
King (Martin Luther) was a well-known leader of nonviolent resistance to equal rights for all.
Hariet Tubman escaped slavery and played an important role in helping others through the underground railway
I have a dream was a famous and powerful speech by Martin Luther King.
Stop violence against all people
Treat
Others
Respectfully, kindly and how you would like to be treated
You are the change
Our Differences
By: Arielle
We are a community of varieties
But some were treated unfairly
People were tortured and blamed in our society
We couldn’t speak for ourselves clearly
Some were sold as slaves and maids
As a result, our numbers decreased
They were bruised and used in the trades
Wanting to be released
Racial Injustice/Inequality
By: Andrea
Slavery started in 1619
Back then people were controlled
Now this has changed, they are finally seen
And history has been told
We all have our differences
And that’s what makes us unique
We should stop ignorance
We have a voice, we’re not weak
Modern Day Slavery
Slavery began in 1619
It’s not completely over
It’s just a different scene*
Since 1834
Many have fought for equality and peace
But modern slavery exists today
The rates continue to increase
Slavery is wrong
Speak up
Protect the vulnerable
Defend our rights
Which should be shared by all of humanity
Facts:
* Fifty million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, according to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery. Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour and 22 million were trapped in forced marriage. Women and children are the most vulnerable and in the past 5 years rates of modern day slavery around the world have risen (International Labour Organization, 2022).
Questions For Further Thought:
How as a society can we put an end to slavery once and for all? How can we create a society where people’s rights are protected and respected?
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