Thursday February 3 2022

Happy Thursday February 3, 2022

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Love

Reminders

No school February 17, 18, 21 (Teachers convention and family day)

Social Cities are now very late. Parent calls have been made. Please ensure work is being completed on time.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with our Moon and ROAR (Rotation, orbit, axis revolution) quiz. They have been marked and sent home to be signed and returned. 

We had a short math block today doing Mathletics on laptops after our quiz.

After snack and an indoor recess we watched a few Pixar shorts. I am using the Pixar shorts as a way to help teach the students about plot mountain. We first watched Day and Night to see characters, settings, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and the resolution. We broke it down as a class then I had the students examine the short Burn-E. They filled in the different sections of the plot mountain independently before going over it as a class.

For social studies today we looked at different Calgary bylaws. After exploring a large list of the different the bylaws in Calgary we got to work on creating or amending our own bylaws. The students needed to create a concern that could actually happen within their city. From this they bring the concern to a councillor who will bring it as a motion to city council. Tomorrow students will be doing a mock city council debate in which they will be for and against the passing of the bylaw. We will debate and vote on whether the new bylaws will be passed. 

In the afternoon we created some space art! Students had free reign on their space designs of a celestial body or object. We used chalk pastels, crayons, paint and black paper to design our space art. Pictures will be coming soon!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Mr Lancee