Wednesday May 5, 2021

 Happy Wednesday May 5, 2021!

Reminders:

Pillar of the month: Courage

May 10: Spring pictures day

May 5: Raising awareness for missing indigenous women and girls (please wear red this day)

May 3-7 Mental Health Week

May 9: Mothers Day!

I wanna start off by saying I am so proud of how hard the students worked this week. I see students pushing themselves in reading, writing, social science and math each day. Keep up the great work everyone!

As you know, with the new restrictions we are going to see some changes to our normal day and be online for the next couple weeks. I will be sending out some more information tomorrow to help parents with transitioning to online again! If anyone requires technology to access google classroom or the google meets can you please let me know. 

Today in room 5:

We started our morning with some catch up time and reading before having our morning meeting. 

After snack we moved right into starting our writing for our "what could go wrong?" stories. Yesterday we planned out what could go wrong with an everyday situation such as brushing our teeth or walking to the store. The idea was to create stories that pushed student to create problems and have a logical solution to them. From here we can add in characters, settings and then move to more imaginative and fairy tale style stories. 

When we finished recess on the playground we moved into math. We have been using non standard units, such as, blocks and chain links to measure object in the classroom. Today I taught the students how to use a ruler to measure objects in cm! Students loved being able to give accurate measurements of the length, height and width of objects.

After lunch we read another chapter of the BFG. This silly chapter had the students learning about what a whizpopper was...ask your child if they remember what it was. It is pretty silly!

Today in gym we played some parachute games! We played pop tent, popcorn, cotton candy (kid in the middle) and then some free time to play football and soccer games. 

The class then headed off to the trees to try our second sit spot of the week. I gave everyone a sketch book to sit and draw what they could see, hear, smell and feel around them. I was impressed with how well students just enjoyed sitting and actually relaxing! They came back with some detailed drawings of trees, houses, cars, pinecones, grass and more. 

We finished off our day by learning about the Acadian flag. I had a plan to have everyone design their own flag...but we will push this to when we get back. As a class we learned about the colours and symbols used in the Acadian, Canadian, Albertan and Nunavummiut flag.

We then tidied the class and headed off! 

Tomorrow is our last day before online classes so I hope everyone has a great sleep and comes in ready for a great day :)

Stay safe and all the best, we are all in this together <3

Mr Lancee