Friday Oct 15, 2021

  Happy Friday Oct 15, 2021

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
3. October 19 - Picture Day- Notices sent home today!
4. October 21 - Fire drill
5. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Important updated school due dates:

    Oct. 13 (NOW IT IS LATE)  Concrete Poems were due! I have now started a list of students that have homework due tomorrow! I will call parents if they are not handed in.

    Oct 20 (Wednesday *NEW DATE*) Below is what you should know for our science test.

Today in room 5:

We started our morning with some DEAR before moving into some tech time.

Our tech time was spent on ipads completing a survey about how the students feel about their home and school. The last 30 minutes was spent working on different assignments in mathletics. 

After snack we had some time to mark our math test from yesterday. The decimal place value, addition and subtraction tests were marked and sent home yesterday. Please work with your children to correct the work, sign and return it for Tuesday. I will also provide additional resources for students to support the concepts we are learning in class. Remember, practice makes perfect :)

After the math test we moved into our social skits. I had two groups present today and we will finish the rest next week!

We finished our morning with an appreciation circle talking about some incidents that took place. We spoke about respect, caring for others, not arriving at school too early, and conflict resolution. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! 

Thursday Oct. 14, 2021

 Happy Thursday Oct. 14, 2021

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
3. October 19 - Picture Day- Notices sent home today!
4. October 21 - Fire drill
5. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Important updated school due dates:

    Oct. 13 (YESTERDAY)  Concrete Poems were due today! I have now started a list of students that have homework due tomorrow! I will call parents tomorrow if they are not handed in.

    Oct 14 (Thursday) Place value test. Will review everything we have covered up until this point.

    Oct 20 (Wednesday *NEW DATE*) Trees and Forest quiz on the trees, tree cookies and tree knowledge.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with the usual day 3 DEAR time. Today we finally were able to log in and experience Robogarden coding! This coding program has the students developing their problem solving skills and creating code in a game format. We will be doing this program every Thursday from 8:30-9:30.

After coding we had snack and recess before doing a science review. This science review covered the concepts we explored over the last few weeks. Our test next Wednesday will be on:

-Tree parts and functions

-Tree cookies and their growth patterns

-Deciduous vs coniferous trees

After science we had gym (badminton) and music before writing our decimal place value and addition/subtraction test. We will be marking these tomorrow and they will be sent home over the weekend to correct!

The last chunk of our day was spent outside for recess, doing mindfulness, and then practicing our skits for equity and equality. These skits will be taking place tomorrow and Tuesday! We made props, rehearsed and ironed out our skits today.

Hope everyone has a great Thursday evening!

Mr Lancee

Wednesday Oct. 13, 2021

Happy Wednesday Oct. 13, 2021

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
3. October 19 - Picture Day- Notices sent home today!
4. October 21 - Fire drill
5. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Important updated school due dates:

    Oct. 13 (Today!)  Concrete Poems were due today! I have now started a list of students that have homework due tomorrow! I will call parents tomorrow if they are not handed in.

    Oct 14 (Thursday) Place value test. Will review everything we have covered up until this point.

    Oct 20 (Wednesday *NEW DATE*) Trees and Forest quiz on the trees, tree cookies and tree knowledge.

Apologies for deleting blog from yesterday :(

Thursday Oct. 7, 2021!

Happy Thursday Oct. 7, 2021!

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. No school Oct. 8 (PD Day)
3. No school Oct 11 (Thanksgiving)
4. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
5. October 19 - Picture Day- Notices sent home today!
6. October 21 - Fire drill
7. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Important school due dates:

    Oct. 13 (Next Wednesday)  Concrete Poems are due! We started them today, if you need to use the weekend to submit your best work then that may be a good decision!

    Oct 14 (Next Thursday) Place value test. Will review everything we have covered up until this point.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with DEAR and time to work on concrete poems before we started RoboGarden coding. 

Robogarden coding is a program we have signed our students up for that gives the students an opportunity to learn how to code. This can be used to learn the basics of creating video games, apps and much more. I encouraged the students to try this on their own over the weekend! Unfortunately....the program was not running properly today and we will have to try again next week. I gave students the remainder of the time to do mathletics. 

After snack and recess we had another 30 minutes to work on their concrete poems. (THESE ARE DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY)!

The next chunk of the morning was spent with Mr Wiens in music and myself playing soccer outside.

When we came back inside we started a new social project. The students are creating a skit about equity and equality! They must have 1 or 2 skits about each concept. They can also create a commercial that advertises a product which shows equity or equality. 

After lunch we had mindfulness and recess before finishing our day with science. Today we became dendrochronologists and learned about tree cookies! The study of tree rings and tree cookies give us huge insight into the weather, age, soil and sunlight patterns of a trees growth! Next week we will be looking in depth at the factors that influence a tree rings growth.

Have a wonderful long weekend everyone!

See you Tuesday and Happy Thanksgiving :)

Mr Lancee

Wednesday Oct 6, 2021

Happy Wednesday Oct 6, 2021

Reminders:

1. Return classroom contract ASAP PLEASE!
2. Return updated digital citizenship form ASAP. Your child cannot use the computers or tech in the school otherwise.
3. Large packet of forms sent home! Please read and return all required forms ASAP 
1. -Some were resent home again today to be signed
4. Vaccination forms were sent home on Thursday and today. Please sign and return them ASAP
5. No school Oct. 8 (PD Day)
6. No school Oct 11 (Thanksgiving)
7. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
8. October 19 - Picture Day
9. October 21 - Fire drill
10. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Important school due dates:

    Oct. 13 (Next Wednesday)  Concrete Poems are due! We started them today, if you need to use the weekend to submit your best work then that may be a good decision!

    Oct 14 (Next Thursday) Place value test. Will review everything we have covered up until this point.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some math review and catch up time for students. The math review had students computing subtraction and addition questions with decimals.

Our math today was a large block that we spent finishing math work from the previous two days. The concepts we covered were comparing and rounding decimals. 

After snack and recess we had DEAR and library.

We then moved into social and learned about the difference between Equity and Equality!

We must first have equity, before we can enjoy equality. 

Equity is about everyone getting the opportunities they need to be successful. 

Equality is about everyone getting the same.

We will be planning and starting skits tomorrow!

The next chunk of our morning was spent planning and creating our concrete poems. Concrete poems are poems in which the words take the shape of topic you are writing about. Ex. Rainbow bending lines that form a rainbow shape. Today we started the rough drafts. Tomorrow we will draw the pictures and add extra details and literary terms before starting our good copies. 

The students then had gym with Ms. Sterne before heading to lunch.

In the afternoon we had recess and mindfulness before starting science. 

Today's focus was on the functions of the leaves. 

Yesterday we learned about the leaf parts and their functions. Today we applied it to learning about photosynthesis and the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday evening!

Mr Lancee

Monday October 4, 2021

Happy Monday Oct 4, 2021!

Reminders:

1. Return classroom contract ASAP PLEASE!
2. Return updated digital citizenship form ASAP. Your child cannot use the computers or tech in the school otherwise.
3. Large packet of forms sent home! Please read and return all required forms ASAP 
1. -Some were resent home again today to be signed
4. Vaccination forms were sent home on Thursday and today. Please sign and return them ASAP
5. No school Oct. 8 (PD Day)
6. No school Oct 11 (Thanksgiving)
7. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
8. October 19 - Picture Day
9. October 21 - Fire drill
10. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Today in room 5:

We started our morning with some DEAR time as today was a Day 3. Afterwards we moved into math and began to compare decimals up to the thousandths using the < > = symbols. We also plotted these decimals on number lines.

After snack and recess we did new jobs before starting LA. Today we looked at personification and a new poem that we will be starting this week. We covered the concrete poem, which is a poem that takes the shape of the topic it is about. Ex. Lollipop shaped poem about candy.

The students then had music with Mr Wiens and Gym with me outside playing soccer. Today in gym we covered drills around ball control then played a few games.

When we came back inside we wrote some notes in social and had a discussion on "What is a citizen? What is a citizens responsibility?"  and "What are governments? What is a governments responsibility?" 

After lunch we had time in the field and mindfulness indoors before moving into the class for science. Science today had us comparing and describing leaf types by their sides, veins, edges, and shapes. Students worked in small groups using their notes to describe the different characteristics of the laminated leaves I brought into class.

We finished off our day by doing a desk change in which I let the students choose their desk in the room while still remaining in rows. TRUST is one of our biggest values in the class in that I let students sit where they want for October, but if they are constantly distracted or talking I will move them. We then tidied the class and went on our way!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Monday evening!

Mr Lancee

Friday October 1, 2021

Happy Friday October 1, 2021!

Reminders:

1. Return classroom contract ASAP PLEASE!
2. Return updated digital citizenship form ASAP. Your child cannot use the computers or tech in the school otherwise.
3. Large packet of forms sent home! Please read and return all required forms ASAP 
1. -Some were resent home again today to be signed
4. Vaccination forms were sent home on Thursday and today. Please sign and return them ASAP
5. No school Oct. 6 (PD Day)
6. No school Oct 11 (Thanksgiving)
7. No school Oct 18 - PD Day
8. October 19 - Picture Day
9. October 21 - Fire drill
10. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Today in room 16:

We started our morning by writing our notes of care to another class mate. It is a wonderful to start our day in a positive way! Students then reflected on our pillar of the month and wrote "Respect is..." and someone they respect.

We then had our first Pillars of Care assembly for the 2021/2022 school year. We acknowledged the land, heard from Ms Austin and Mr Hebert, announced the pillar winners for each room and grade and found out we have new awards coming for next month!

After the assembly we had time take our class photos and cut them into picture frames for the walls of our classroom. These picture frames are hung next to student work and art that we complete in class. 

After snack and CNN10 I had the students write a letter to an individual that attended a residential school. We talked about what you might say to this person after everything we learned about the last two days. 

We finished off our morning with Mathletics on laptops, music and gym outside.

Have a great weekend everyone!