Mid-November

Working on the Money Problem (first day)

Mid-November has been about finishing up projects, final assessments, and preparing for our Celebration of Learning. We hope you can join us for our Open House on Thursday, November 26th from 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., so we can share some of our work with you! Families can also make individual appointments for the morning of Friday, November 27th, either through the Linwood Conference Manager or by contacting the office or me directly.

Working on the Money Problem (first and second day)

I have included photos of the class working on one of our more challenging math problems in problem solving, the Money Problem, which we will share at our Open House. Students worked in teams to figure out how to make seven bills distinguishable by touch, all the same size and shape, with the only difference being a maximum of one diagonal cut, the same size and depth, per bill corner. We certainly had moments of frustration, but the class was able to stretch their thinking and build their stamina in math by trying a variety of strategies! We documented, shared, and reflected on our work afterwards.
Also, photos of students practicing their spelling words during our word work time are included in this post. Our next spelling test is Monday, November 30th!

As always, readers are encouraged to comment on our blog posts!

Our student team bloggers from last week, Xander and Avirey, wrote a highlight on November 19th:
Hello, we are the bloggers of this week. Today it snowed a lot. Today we are finishing up our autobiographies. We all made up a different animal in Science today and it was fun. Now, some of us are doing our autobiography thumbprints. Thank you for reading our blog post!

Published Autobiographies

Word Work Activities

Start of November

Our Remembrance Wreath

Working on Writing

We have been busy with end of term assessments in all subject areas at the start of this month and have also spent time with our visiting artist. I am particularly proud of our class and how hard they have worked on their artwork and writing most recently. The autobiographies our students are writing are very impressive and I'm looking forward to more students publishing their writing. I'm also excited to see their finished dream paintings in December. Today, we had a touching Remembrance Day service at school and I hope that you will all consider taking time to remember those who have sacrificed for our freedom on November 11th.

Our team bloggers, Walker and Sophia, have a highlight from last week: Last week we had T.I.A. with Claudia Evans-Menard. We made an art piece called Dreamscape. We had a Health test on Wednesday and we also had Library on Wednesday. We had a Science test on Thursday and T.I.A. again. Friday, we had T.I.A. and picture re-takes. Everyone's paintings look great and awesome!

Viewing the Artist's Artwork

Painting our Practice Pieces

Outlining the Colour Values in Our Practice Pieces

Painting our Final Pieces

Demonstration of Outlining on a Final Piece

Painting and Outlining Our Final Pieces

Happy Halloween!

Our student team bloggers, Sara and Zyron, wrote about our Friday Halloween celebration last week:

Last Friday we had a happy Halloween because after lunch we had a parade. It was fun. My favorite costume was Slenderman (Zyron). After recess, we had a party. There was a lot of food like cupcakes, jello, and juice. We had a lot of fun.

Halloween fun

Late October

Working on our dioramas

We have enjoyed wrapping up projects from many subject areas this month. Some students have started to complete their final versions of their autobiographies. Students will have the option to publish their writing by posting it on the class bulletin board and may also post on their kidblogs once all accounts are set up and linked to our class blog. We are working on skip counting strategies in mental math and developing our problem solving skills. In French, we are beginning to write a counting book as a class project and in Health we completed a study guide last week to prepare for our term test this Wednesday, November 4th. Students who have completed their quilt art worked on dream sketches to prepare for our next art project. A professional artist, Claudia Evans-Menard, will be working with our class on our dream painting project this week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Our student team bloggers, Kaleb and Tipay, wrote an entry to highlight Science work with Mrs. Rogala:
We started thinking of ideas for our diorama. It's for a habitat, like grasslands, arctic, woodlands, and the tropical rain
forest. We worked in groups and we started making them out of plasticine, paint, cotton, and pipe cleaners in pizza boxes. We liked making them and we had fun. Hope you enjoyed reading!