Today is May 4^th also known as Star Wars day! 😊 I know there are many of you out there that love Star Wars! You can check out this video teaching you to make a baby Yoda with a pop-out mouth and cup. Have fun you will.

Rather take a walk on the dark side? You can check out this video from Art hub for kids drawing a cartoon Darth Vader! Browse their videos for more tutorials on other characters!

Welcome to Plant Mondays!

While you are out walking today, can you find a dandelion? Here is a resource from Lori Snyder, a Métis herbalist who has shares her knowledge with students, teachers, and communities across the district.

Here is one of her guides to plants, all about dandelions. We can understand the dandelions traditional role and medicines in Indigenous cultures. It is wonderful if we can get to know the plants and pollinators around us. I will be posting about a plant each week!  

How many days can you find dandelions on your walks this week? How many dandelions can you find each day?  

Here are many fun ideas for learning with dandelions! 

• Can you create a dandelion flute? Can you get the tone to change?
• Can you create dandelion art?

Here are some wonders you might explore with dandelions: 

• Can you look closely at all the parts of a dandelion?
• How does a dandelion seed fly through the air?
• What part of a dandelion flower becomes the seed?
• Can you see the white fluffy part when you pull the petals from the flower?
• What does a seed need to grow?
• Why do you think there are so many dandelions?

Make sure you check out your Math Team to see today’s activities!

As always if you’re not interested in today’s activities you can go through older posts or assignments on Teams and try completing something else!

Good Morning Div. 5!

Happy May 1st!

It was so lovely to connect with all of you that were able to join us on our Class Meeting! Hearing from you all made me so happy and made me miss you even more! If you couldn’t make the meeting, do not worry, we’ll have another! Please answer the poll questions on the general channel to share your preference for our future class meetings! 

S.T.E.A.M. Fridays 

Today for your S.T.E.A.M activity you could try out designing and creating your own Dream Bedroom! You can find out details and examples on Teams in your assignments.  You can also do any of the other S.T.E.A.M challenges that you hadn’t tried yet!

Example of a Dream Bedroom

A great raft build!

A fantastic robot build!

Read, read, read! 

Find a book to read at home and read in a cozy spot for at least 20 minutes! Can you draw or write about what you read today? You can send a photo! 

Today is Jump Rope for Heart! 

Get outside and get active! 

Today is supposed to be a nice day before the rain comes this weekend. Make sure you get outside, get some fresh air and stretch your legs. Can you take a walk around your neighbourhood? While you’re out can you search for rainbows made by UHE students? How many can you find? If you don’t live on the mountain, look for other signs of encouragement and support! How many can you find where you live? 

Have a lovely weekend Div. 5!

Good morning, Div. 5!  

I am looking forward to our class meeting today at 11:00am! Please log in to Teams and go to the “General” channel. Please leave your video and microphone off to begin with. It will be our first time using the tool as a class, so we will need to patient with each other! 

1. Press calendar 
2. Select our Thursday meeting 
3. Press “Join now” 
4. Turn your video off and mute your mic to start 

Mini Mystery Science 

You can check out this amazing mini mystery science video: “Why do birds lay eggs in the spring?” 

There are some incredible and unexpected nests in the bonuses! Nature is so amazing. Once you are finished watching, you might want to see what nests you can find outside. Or even try to create one yourself! What kinds of materials can you use to make a nest? Can your nest hold an egg? Or maybe a marble? 

Today we also have some invitations for you to explore your inquiry project! If you have chosen the country you want to explore, you might be ready to start exploring your wonders. Perhaps, you want to know what animals live in your country (in Assignment #3: “Nature” category). 

Fun activity: take this comeback-critter personality quiz to see which animal you are! Ms. Yee got the Golden Lion Tamarin! 

You could check your math channel for some additional population questions created by Div.4 and Div.5 students! 

Good morning, Div. 5! 

Today is Wednesday, which means it is time for another mystery science! 

This week’s mystery science we will explore how solid rock breaks apart into smaller pieces through a process called weathering (including root-wedging and ice-wedging). In the activity, Sugar Shake, you can use sugar cubes as a model for rocks. Then you are invited to perform an experiment with this model to understand the process of weathering and how this process explains why rocks at the tops of mountains are jagged, while those at the bottom are rounded.  

1. Watch this video 

1. Try the experiment! (if you don’t have any sugar cubes, you can just make the predictions! You can click here to see a video of someone doing the experiment – with some bonus content too!)

1. Reflect on your learning with the attached form. 

4. Try these extensions (optional):

• Go on a Plant Walk – look for plants that have taken root where humans might think they “don’t belong”. You may find grass growing in cracks in a sidewalk or plants sprouting between stones or bricks in a wall. 
• Check out this 10-minute video from Yosemite National Park which shows what happens when rocks break off a steep slope. 

• Read this article called 2,500 Tons of Rock Fell Off Half Dome. 
• Discover this demonstration involving “Mighty Beans”! 

Today we are also launching Hana & Yannes’s Art Contest!  

Yannes and I(Hana) were thinking of doing an art contest. 

All Div. 4 & 5 students are invited! (Siblings can enter too!) 

The due date will be May the 14th. 

The pictures can be uploaded to the ART channel in Teams! 

The criteria: 

• It has to be art related  
• Be creative 
• No comparison  
• Most of all Have Fun! 

By: Hana & Yannes 

Thank you for submitting this great idea, Hana and Yannes! You are encouraging your classmates to be creative and share their ideas with the class! We look forward to seeing everyone’s art projects! You can share multiple art projects – even art projects you did earlier in the term (such as the climate art!). Your siblings can also share their art for the contest, you will just have to help them upload it to our team! Please let me know if you need any help or have any questions! 

Check out this Climate Art from a Div. 5 student! 🙂

This Div.5 student started with plotting the points on their graph!

Check out the finished product! It looks awesome!!

Good morning! 

Today we are introducing the next step of our inquiry project. Some of you might be on your Inquiry assignment #2 (choosing 2 countries to explore), or some of you might be ready for the next step! 

You had so many great ideas for this project! We categorized your questions to help you organize your research and included them in assignment #3. This week, you can choose 1-3 questions to research. They don’t have to be from the same category! 

• You can take notes in the empty column (make sure they are in your own words). 
• The questions are just suggestions! You might come up with your own questions for the topics! 
• You can add photos! 
• You can type on this document, or in powerpoint, or write on paper! 
• You can use the “Suggested Resources” for links to helpful websites and databases! 

We have a special math inquiry problem for you! This math problem helps explore representing big numbers! Try your best to remember the different ways to represent the numbers. If you don’t remember, how could you find out? 

Make sure you are checking in with your peers in our communication channel! Post a message and say “Hi!” to the class. If you haven’t already you can post on the Book Club channel and share your thoughts on the first 4 chapters of “A Boy Called Bat.” I love hearing your thoughts on this book! Have you talked to your family about our class meeting on Thursday? Will you be attending? 

As always if you need anything, just ask!! 🙂

Hello Div. 5!

What will your shape of the day look like?

Literacy – Book Club Online

If you’d like to participate in book club the first book we are going to read is A BOY CALLED BAT! I had read you a few chapters in March but we never got to finish! Luckily this great book is on EPIC! If you’d like to join in Book Club please read the first 4 chapters. Once you’ve read those 4 chapters go to the announcement and make sure you hit REPLY. Post your thoughts, wonders, and INFERENCES! I can’t wait to discuss this book with you all! (If you’ve already read the book, no worries, just join in and post your thoughts – but no spoilers!!!

Earth Day Graphing (Numeracy & Flexible Learning) 

This year, we have done a lot of learning about the environment and climate change! To celebrate Earth day this week, here is another idea from Donna Morgan, our district math and science teacher. She featured an artist named “Jill Pelto , who is an amazing scientist and artist. Jill Pelto creates beautiful images from climate data. What do you notice about these two images? What climate stories do they tell? Now take a look at this graph. Can you see how she used it to create her art?  

You can create your own climate art! 

• First, you can download the climate data and graph paper.  
• Next, you can turn the graph into art! It could be climate art or just environment art. What do the shapes remind you of? 
• Or, if you would just like to do the art, you can create an approximate graph line 

• Here is a link to a full lesson and videos to support you from NASA 

Looking at next week, there’s a few things! Monday is a Pro-D-Day so there will be no new assignments posted. We’ll also be having our first Team Meeting! Please see information about it below!

Next week on Thursday April 30^th we will be having an optional class meeting in Teams at 11:00am.

During this meeting we’ll be able to chat and connect for a bit and I can try to answer any questions you may have!

Please do not use this function on your own. The only time we will be using it will be during our class meetings. If you want to connect with your peers on video chat you can set that up independently using a different platform like zoom or a phone call!

You can access the meeting in a few ways

• You can use the email inviting you to the meeting
• You can log on to Teams and find the meeting in the calendar tab (on the left side, below assignments
• You can log on to Teams and find the meeting in the general channel

Once it’s time for our meeting there will be a button that says “Join Meeting” – click it when you’re ready to enter the meeting.

When you join, you need to mute your speaker and turn off your video. You will see a little video camera and microphone image on the middle part of your screen. Please make sure these are turned off for the time being. If the audio and video is turned on it will slow down the software and our meeting will not work as smoothly.

Please remember this is an optional meeting. If you cannot attend, don’t worry! We will have another!

If you are attending please make sure you give yourself some time to find a quiet space, log in to teams, join the meeting, and turn off your camera and microphone.

While in the meeting make sure that you are respectful and kind. It is really important that we respect each other’s privacy! That means on the call we shouldn’t be recording any audio or video!

Please inform a parent/guardian about this video call. Be sure to ask for permission before joining.

As always you can continue to work on any assignments or activities you haven’t finished!

Check out this awesome robot build from the STEAM activity posted last friday!! This handy robot helps clean up Lego! We need this for mindful minutes!!

Hello Division 5!

What will your shape of the day look like?  

• Can you include elements of each: Well being & Connection, Literacy, Numeracy, Flexible Learning? 

Well being & Connection 

• I love starting my day with stretching, taking an active break at lunch (I use an app for guided exercises), and going for a walk later in the day. These activities help me stay energized, focused, and happy. Do you have an activity routine? What are your favourite ways to be active? 

Today you can be working on a few simile worksheets on Teams. Similes use “like” or “as” to compare different things. What similes will you come up with? 

As we continue to do a lot of learning on our computers or tablets it’s important that we continue to develop our typing skills. Today it would be great if you did a lesson or two on All the Right Type. Here’s a refresher of how to log in.  

To login: Go to the website for All the Right Type (https://atrtonline.ca) then, select “School User Sign-In” at the top of the page and enter your sign in credentials: 

School Code: canbcsd412081 

Username: 

Password: 

Please message your teacher in your private channel if you forgot your username or password!

Have a lovely day!!

Today is Earth Day! How will you celebrate the Earth today? 

• Earlier this year we did the Cool it Challenge. Here is a video reminding us how we can make a difference! 
• National Geographic Kids has many ideas for learning about many diverse Earth Day connections! 

You can check out the links above and then think about what one thing you can do to take better care of the earth. Let’s all make Earth Day Promises to encourage ourselves to be committed to make a difference!! You could plan to make sure you turn off the water when you brush your teeth, recycle, use reusable containers, make a pollinator garden, etc.  

• My Earth Day Promise is…  
• You can post your earth day promise in your private channel or in the communication channel.  

There’s also a Mystery Science you can work on today!

• In this week’s mystery science we are continuing our study of volcanoes!  We will learn about different kinds of volcanoes and how the thickness of the lava can explain the shape and eruption pattern of the volcanoes.  Using lava made out of water and flour, we will test how different lavas create different shapes and trap gases differently. You can find the video and instructions on teams “assignments”! 

Hi Div. 5,

I hope you are having a great start to your day! What will your shape of the day look like today? Here is some inspiration to continue your week: 

Literacy 

• These are very interesting times in our world. Today, you are invited to read a book called Coronavirus: A Book for Children. It can help answer some questions you might be having. You might even want to write a journal response about it. There will be a Coronavirus Story & Journal “Assignment” available to you this morning in Teams. As with other activities, this is optional. However, you might want to continue adding in your journal each week to write about how you are feeling. It might be something very special and interesting to look back at.

Numeracy 

• Check out your math channel for ideas and activities (grade 4’s – you might want to create your online shop!)

Flexible Learning 

This Wednesday is Earth Day! How will you celebrate Earth day this year? 

• Can you take a walk outside every day this week?
• Can you check on your spring bud – how much has it grown? Do another sketch!
• Do you have a special Earth Day project or initiative? Can you create one with a friend?
• Here is a mini Mystery Science about Earth:How Old is the Earth? 
• Check out the bonus for some amazing inventions using recycled plastic! Do they inspire you?

Have you started the next part of your Country Inquiry? You can continue to browse the resources and start thinking about what country you’d like to research!

Well-being and Connection 

• How many different colourscan you see on your walk today?  
• How many different sounds can you hear?
• Can you send a photo of your learning to your teacher?
• Can you phone a friend?
• Can you connect with your peers on our communication channel on Teams?

If you need anything or have any questions please let Ms.Yee know! 😊

Hi Div. 5 families and students,

Thank you so much for sharing your feedback on how distance learning has been going for you so far. I really appreciated hearing how everyone is doing.

This is all new to us, so there’s going to be some things that work well and some things that don’t. We’re all trying to figure this out as we go!

Please do whatever makes sense for your family. Please do not feel pressured to complete assignments. We’re all on our own learning journeys and we all have our own interests and activities that we do outside of school. This is a very unusual time and our distance learning won’t look like what would typically do at school and that’s okay.

If your family is having troubles navigating the online platforms and are preferring to do your own thing or just the blog activities, that’s great too. Anything you choose to do, you can always share in your private channel on Teams to stay connected.

As always in a classroom there’s differences among us. Some of us like structure with due dates, for some of us due dates stress us out and we like to complete things at our own pace.

Going forward when posting assignments due dates will say till June. Whenever you choose to complete assignments is great, if you choose to do them. It is your family’s choice! Please do assignments that make sense to your family and what is manageable.

The guidelines we’ve been given for distance learning each day are as follows:

• 30 minutes: well-being and connection (physical activity and connecting with friends and family)
• 30 minutes: literacy activity (reading and writing)
• 30 minutes: numeracy activity (math)
• flexible time: flexible learning (passion projects, ADST, STEAM, and beyond!)

At grade 4/5 it is suggested that students spend 90 minutes + flex time a day.

What we CAN do today:

SEL and Connection: Check out Teams and connect with your peers. Chat, connect, share what you’ve been doing. Get active! Get your body moving – dance breaks are a great way to break up your day. Pop on your favourite tune and dance it out.

Literacy: 2 choices today – You can continue to read for 30 minutes by reading a book you have at home or by reading online on Epic or Tumblebooks!

You can also check out your new Country Inquiry Activity where you’ll have to do a bit of reading about different countries and a bit of writing. Try not to spend more than 30 minutes working on this, come back to it another day!

Numeracy: Please check your grade specific math channel for today’s activities.

Div. 5 Goobers do what you feel comfortable working on. If you need any help please ask!!! Try it own your own first, but if you have read instructions or tried it out and don’t get it, ASK! I’m here. It might take a little time for me to get back to you. But please ask for support!!!