April 23, 2021

 Hello Families, 

I hope everyone is doing well! This time of the year is interesting as the weeks always seem to get busy tying up all of the learning that has cumulated over the year.

 

We celebrated Earth Day yesterday (Thursday, April 22) through a school wide task about how we care for, celebrate and acknowledge the land. Here are the results of this work:

We also have started talking about how the natural world and human made objects are all constructed from composite shapes, meaning, multiple 2D and 3D shapes put together. We enjoyed the beautiful weather on Wednesday afternoon by going on a composite shape neighbourhood walk and documenting the shapes we discovered in the world on iPads. 

   

We have also started learning about standard and non standard units of measurement. We had a lot of fun exploring with measuring classroom objects this week, including body parts! Feel free to extend this learning at home by finding fun things to measure around your house!

 

Today, we had a student reward day of "Fox Friday" where we spend time learning about foxes, completing free writing about foxes, and doing some artwork. This was inspired by a secret math task we did earlier in the week. It was amazing to see how students connected learning about different types of fox species to the other animals we have learned about this year such as the beetle and rock ptarmigan, and how students considered how habitat impacts the adaptations of different kinds of foxes. We also did a multiple choice quiz at the end where all students were very successful in answering questions regarding their fox learning! I think this would be a great trend to continue on Fridays throughout the spring. 

As we continue to learn about Canada's dynamic communities, we started to talk about provincial flags, flowers, and birds. We were fortunate to have an experience to work with an Indigenous Elder this week and she shared Indigenous perspectives about plants and animals, which connected to the work we have been doing. 

Things are going amazingly well! I feel so lucky to be able to spend quality time with each of these amazing little humans every day! Take care & stay healthy!

Ms. Brown