Students had so much fun prototype narratives on Friday afternoon during our Serious Lego Play Workshop.
Poems will be uploaded to your child’s Spaces Account later this week for viewing.
This past week we have been learning about figurative language and poetic devices. If you would like to have a closer look all poetry has been uploaded to our Spaces accounts.
Today for World Read Aloud Day we had a special presentation of It’s Tough to be Tiny by Author Kim Ryall Woolcock.
During our Zoom call with Ms. Woolcock she shared her book with us, which is all about the superpowers of some of the smallest creatures living on planet Earth. We were all surprised that sometimes authors need to do 10-20 edits before their work is published. It’s not a short process and in some cases it can take a few years from the time you start writing to get your work published. She reminded students that writing is often a messy process at the start and it takes time and patience to create something great. These are all great tips that will help us as we begin our own narratives in the coming weeks.
Students have been learning about the mining process and about different types of mines. Their work and models of open pit, placer, strip and underground mines along with their oversized visuals outlining the mining process and resources we mine for in Canada will be on display this week at the Vancouver Convention Centre for AME Roundup which is the premier gathering place for thousands of geoscientists, prospectors, financiers, investors, suppliers, governments and Indigenous partners to engage, share knowledge, and look at opportunities and challenges shaping the mining industry.
After reading “The Great Realization” by Tomos Robert the students create a similar poem on their own global issue. They worked in pairs to create a 6 stanza poem with A, A, B, B or A, B, A, B rhyming scheme.
Below are the poems they created.
Student Poems
Link to Read-Aloud: https://youtu.be/Nw5KQMXDiM4
Today, in class Ms. Knowlan our student teacher taught a lesson based on the book The Great Realization written by Tomos Roberts. The book is about the pandemic, times of crisis, and the many global issues we are facing today. It also highlights how the pandemic has helped us open our eyes to some of these global issues during the global pandemic.
A few questions we discussed as a class were:
What do you think the meaning of this poem is?
What are some things that resonated with you?
In the video how does the relationship between Roberts and his siblings influence his message, choice of words, delivery and impact?
Does Tomos Robert paint a positive or negative picture?
Do the illustrations from the book change your perception or understanding?
Why do you think the author chose the title “The Great Realization”?
What are some key issues he identifies?
How does he portray the world after lockdown?
What does he mean by “hindsight’s 2020”?
For the next lesson we will be partnered up and asked to write and illustrate our own poems on global issues affecting us today (poverty, pollution, climate change, inequality, technology consumption, war, natural disasters, over population, corruption, etc.).
Blogpost written by: A.W.
The Grinch was “Up to Snow Good” and arrested by Aubrey PD this week. Check your child’s Blogfolio for their Breaking News reports.
During todays virtual field trip we learned about the 3 local watersheds in Metro Vancouver (Capilano, Seymour, and Coquitlam). We learned that the Watershed is not a shed its actually part of the ecosystem and has many interconnected parts that are important to protect.
So what are watersheds and what do they do? A watershed is an area of land that drains surface water and groundwater into a common water body, such as a creek, stream, lake or the ocean. In British Columbia water sheds down from the mountains into a lake or the water reservoir of our local watershed. Dams help keep the water in the reservoir.
In British Columbia there are 400 watersheds that provide residents of British Columbia with Fresh drinking water. Of these 400 watersheds only 4 are protected. Three of the protected watersheds are located right here in Metro Vancouver.
Watersheds are closed to the public and people are prohibited from swimming, hiking, or fishing in these protected areas. This helps keep our water supply clean and protected.
The largest watershed in Metro Vancouver is located in Coquitlam. Residents of the lower maintained get their drinking water from different watersheds. For example, Richmond gets their water from the Capilano watershed while residents of Port Moody get their drinking water from the Coquitlam watershed. Here in Burnaby we get our water from the Seymour watershed. When one reservoir is low or contaminated, cities must then get their water from a different watershed temporarily.
During today’s field trip we also discussed how humans borrow water from the water cycle and why it is important to conserve water. Did you know that it takes approximately 1 day or 24 hours for your water to travel from the reservoir to your tap. This is an average amount of time but it also depends on where you live and how close or far away from the watershed you are.
Quiz:
Which of the following is the most important?
A. Precipitation
B. Salmon
C. Forest
D. Reservoir
E. All of the Above
THE ANSWER IS E! (All of the above are an important part of the watershed and equally important. Each one is dependent on the other).
What is the oldest tree in our watershed?
A. 100 years
B.800 years
C. 500 years old
D. 1000 years old
The ANSWER IS D. That is a very old tree.
For homework we were then tasked with finding out how much water we use and asked to think about ways we can conserve more water. Click the link below to complete the water audit and get entered to win a pizza party for our class. Good luck!
Link: WATER AUDIT
Blog Post Written By: C.S. and K. S.
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