Dear Parents, Today, we had a “Habits of Healthy Kids” lesson with Ms. Schmidt where she emphasized and reviewed the principles of putting first things first (prioritizing), thinking win-win (cooperation), and planning with the end in mind (planning). Then, we went outside for DPA – they had an extended DPA…
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
Dear Parents, We had a very lovely day today, the students earned their final cupcake coloured in which means they get an extra DPA tomorrow 🙂 Great work to them! This morning, we watched the last Drama presentation and explored in Math making change for large bills. We worked on…
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Dear Parents, This morning we read more of “Castle in the Attic” as a class. Some pretty intense events took place in the book. Then, we worked on counting up money and sorting coins through this game: https://www.practicalmoneyskills.ca/games/peterpigs/peterpigs.php The students had the chance to buy items for Peter the Pig…
Monday, January 6th, 2020
Dear Parents, Welcome back to school and happy 2020!!!! I was so happy to see so many photos of Winter Break – it looks like all the kids had so much fun during the break! This morning, the students had Music. We did an introductory/refresher lesson for our new topic…
Friday, December 20th, 2019
Dear Parents, I thought I would write this a bit early, since it is the last day before the holidays! 🙂 The only homework for the break is for the students to take 5 pictures of things they do over the break and print them out and have them for…
Thursday, December 19th, 2019
Dear Parents, Today was a very fun day! We constructed our “Gingerbread Medieval Castles” with royal icing and decorated with sprinkles, chocolate, and candies. Thank you so much for everyone who sent decorations, I really appreciate it! 🙂 We also watched the movie “Klaus”. We had our seventh spelling test…
Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
Dear Parents, Today, students worked on their tessellation artwork pieces, they look great! We went to the library for our last time before Winter break, and the kids had their afternoon performance. They did so wonderfully and I am looking forward to tonight. At the end of the day, we…
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Dear Parents, Today, we watched one more Drama presentation for the medieval scripts. Then, we worked on our Math tessellation keychains – they look so neat! After that, we experimented with our snap circuit kit as part of our electricity unit. I bought the wrong batteries by accident (if anyone…
Monday, December 16th, 2019
Dear Parents, Today, we worked on our Math Tessellation keychains. They are starting to look really neat with some students making patterns with unicorns, dragons, stingrays, and more. Then, the students had more rehearsal practice for the Music concert! Our music concert is on Wednesday and the afternoon session begins…
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Dear Parents, Today, we started a new Math/Art project with tessellations. Tessellations are repeating patterns made with one shape, that repeat throughout the piece and fit together perfectly with no spaces in between. It’s really a cool art effect and if you look it up on Google you will find…