A timeline of Earth’s History:
https://explore.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/walk-through-time/timeline/
Students had a great time this week visiting the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Pacific Museum of Earth. During the field trip they got to learn about fossils (body and trace) and learned how scientists date rocks and fossils. They also had an opportunity to examine museum specimens to increase their awareness of biodiversity, evolution, ecology, and conservation.
The videos below talks about how important these skills are to develop and how to help kids develop them so that they can succeed in school, achieve their goals and plan for the future.
In class we have been learning about each executive function and students have been setting weekly intentions to help strengthen and develop these skills. In class we have been learning more about how the brain develops executive functions and students have been setting individual/collective goals around the following executive functions below:
Impulse Control
Ability to think before speaking, resist temptation, think about choices and consequences of behaviors before acting.
Flexible Thinking
Ability to think about different ways to solve problems, adjust to new situations, learn from mistakes, cope with routine changes, try new things, switch from task to another, and learn new things.
Emotional Control
Ability to regulate emotions, choosing which emotions are appropriate in any given situation, maintaining emotions under pressure.
Working Memory
Ability to follow instructions, pay attention, use relevant information while in the middle of an activity.
Self-Monitoring
Ability to have self-awareness of how one is doing in the moment to make adjustments of actions/behaviors to the current situation.
Planning and Prioritizing
Ability to plan daily tasks to meet short and long-term responsibilities.
Task Initiation
Ability to motivate self to begin tasks by directing behaviors and actions.
Organization
Gather and keep track of information and belongings.
Throughout the week they have been monitoring their individual and collective efforts. This critical reflection is helping them develop an awareness of their own needs and they are learning to monitor their progress, develop, and sustain growth in each of these areas.
Videos Links:
What is Executive Function?
https://youtu.be/ex0M-vPHPr4?si=jtMswwBLzLebAF6y
Executive Functions
https://youtu.be/ihP_ej4eixs?si=IJQjqCO_QikVhkf3
Executive Function-A Day in the life of…
https://youtu.be/I0IPjr9CKqg?si=KUb_vanW3Y7LmoPL
10 Ways to Train Your Brain to Be More Focused and Productive
https://youtu.be/322buwrWqhg?si=oP03hHzBPCtqsDej
How to Improve Your Concentration and Focus
https://youtu.be/XBpcaZrYdXw?si=OXbtA2CmClHYuilP
How does breathing impact the brain?
https://youtu.be/2HojLhKlJto?si=Btq0u93Et2KMEmks
The Science of Breathing
https://youtu.be/wpWa-z3wDmw?si=AVHppzaUEJHHPMjh
Last week students got to see the Pier 21 Musical, which reviewed the history of immigration during World War 2. It was a rich heartfelt musical featuring celtic and swing music. Students got to experience the adventures, heartaches and hopes of refugees, immigrants, orphans, and war brides, as they came through the gateway to Canada to make a new life in a new land. They also learned how Canadian soldiers left the Pier to free Europe from Nazi bullies, and entertained soldiers on CBC radio. The play was broken down into three parts:
PART ONE Summer 1939 Arriving at the Pier
The Immigration Officer Immigrants, Refugees, Home Children
PART TWO Canada at War A Soldier departs Canadian Women Army Corps The Army Show
Letter from Holland
PART THREE Post war War Brides
Red Cross and Sisters of Service The Fallen and the Free
The Return
Background Knowledge
PIER 21, located in Halifax on the Eastern edge of Canada, was a place of dramatic comings and goings: risky arrivals and bold departures, culture and language challenges, farewells and reunions, disappointment, heartache, and tearful relief. This old warehouse profoundly shaped what Canada became dur- ing the decades it was in operation.
Steamships, docking at the Pier, brought over a million immigrants hoping to settle in Canada. Among the immigrants were refugees, home children, and War-brides who made their first steps down a ramp into the drafty warehouse that was Pier 21. As luggage and trunks were unloaded, hundreds of people milled about or waited on benches. They were greeted by Immigration officers, volunteer organizations, nurses and aid societies, and long missed relatives.
Our play begins at the outbreak of World War 2 just as Canada is about to join England in the war effort. People are fleeing Europe to escape the coming dan- gers. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Nazi U-boats (subma- rines) prowl outside the Halifax harbour as half a million soldiers sail away from the Pier to fight the Nazi scourge in Europe. For some Canadian soldiers, the Pier was the last place in Canada they would set foot on.
Were it not for the selfless actions of valiant soldiers, compassionate volunteers, or staff and military personnel working under extreme conditions, the experience of immigrants, refugees, and displaced people arriving in Halifax would have been a memory rather forgotten. Instead, as the Pier 21 museum amply attests to, there is an overwhelming level of gratitude for the gifts Canadians gave to storm-tossed souls reaching for a promising future.
Please view your child’s poem on their Spaces account.
Please see your child’s Spaces account to view their individual work.
Dear Parents/Guardians of Aubrey Elementary School,
Each year, students in all elementary grades throughout BC receive instruction in sexual health education. This information is included in the Physical and Health Education program mandated for all BC students by the Ministry for Education. From time to time, schools bring in experts in the field to address this topic with the school community. We are excited to inform you that this year our Aubrey PAC is sponsoring Saleema Noon Sexual Health Educators who will be visiting our school to work with parents and students in K to Grade 7.
In their Body Science presentations, Saleema Noon and her team of experienced educators work with children of all ages, teaching them about healthy bodies and healthy sexuality in ways they find non-threatening and entertaining. In their own language, children learn about how their bodies change, and what those changes mean.
Please join us for an informative Parents Workshop via Zoom on Wednesday, November 8th 6:30-8pm via Zoom.
In this session, Saleema or a member of her team will give an overview of student presentations and, using humor and straight talk in an open and interactive environment.
Student sessions will take place in person during the school day on November 14th and 15th.
The content of the presentations is supported by current research as being age appropriate. Some of the topics Saleema Noon Sexual Health Educators cover in their workshops extend beyond the content of the BC Physical and Health Education curriculum. For this reason, parents may choose to have their children OPT OUT of the Body Science workshops. If you do not wish your child to attend, we ask that you notify your classroom teacher by Friday, November 10th. Attendance at the parent presentation before making this decision is strongly encouraged.
Sincerely,
Lisa Hartman
Principal
In Health/Career today we reviewed ways to train our brains to stay focused and productive. Here is a link to the video we watched and discussed as a class.
Students have been enjoying our brain break when we play a quick game of “Under the Microscope”. During this task students are given an object that has been magnified and they must try to guess accurately what the object is that they are viewing. It’s a great way to give the mind a break while also learning something new.
Here are a few from one of our sessions. Can you guess accurately what they are?
What might this be? What are those smiley faces? You might be surprised when you find out. Ask your child for the correct answers and get them to tell you what those smiley faces are.
In this lesson students learned about the different elements of art (line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value) and created these beautiful leaves that incorporated all 7 elements.
Information About Roy Litchtenstein
A key figure in the Pop Art movement and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation—beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early 1960s, and eventually encompassing those of everyday objects, artistic styles, and art history itself. His process included copying source images by hand, adjusting their composition to suit his narrative or formal aims, and then tracing the altered sketch onto the canvas, aided by a projector. In this rigorously manual process, he used perforated templates to replicate and often exaggerate the dot patterning commonly used in printing imagery. Known as Ben-Day-dots, this patterning became a signature element of his style, which incorporated the look of mechanical reproduction into the fine-art world of painting. His transformations of the source image typically included reducing the color palette to saturated primaries, eliminating incidental details, heightening contrasts, and “emphasizing the pictorial clichés and graphic codes of commercially printed imagery.
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