Friday October 22, 2021

Happy Friday October 22, 2021!

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly
3. October 29 - Dress up in costumes day
4. Please return signed IPP's ASAP
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Today in room 5:

We started our morning with some quiet reading time before our Friday walk for Wenjack. 

Today we walked around the community for a total of 1.52 km. Overall total km's walked this week was 164.03 km! Way to go room 16!

When we returned from our walk we had some time to reflect on Chaney Wenjack, residential schools, and how some questions related the medicine wheel.

Below are the questions:

Mind:

 What do you know about the practices at Residential Schools? 

Provide some examples of how children lived at them.

 

Spirit: 

 How did residential schools try to break the spirit of Indigenous children?

Describe a situation where you followed your beliefs and took action against something you felt was wrong.

Heart: 

 What gave Chanie the courage to run away from his Residential School? 

 

Body:

Imagine you were in Chanie’s place on the run. How would your body feel after several days of running?

The Medicine Wheel

After our reflections we had snack before starting math. 

Our math block was spent calculating the total distance we had walked for each day. We used this data to compute how close we were to meeting our goal of 600 km.

We then took the total distances walked and recreated them in a bar graph. On Monday we will continue this by comparing the data to the other grade 6 classes.

We finished up our day by having an appreciation circle talking about the week and our plans for the weekend. 

Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend!

Mr Lancee

Thursday October 21, 2021!

 Happy Thursday October 21, 2021!

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. October 19 - Picture Day was today!
3. October 21 - Fire drill
4. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Thursday Oct 21

Just informing everyone that today we are going on a walking trip to confluence park. It is only 19 mins away and is within the walking range of the school.

We will be leave by 9:30 and be back by 10:30 am.

Apologies for not sending a school messenger. The website is down.

Today in room 5:

We started our morning some time to read while I did reading testing with some students. 

Every Thursday we have Robogarden Coding for 1 hour. It was great to see all the students completing different assignments and advancing their coding abilities. 

After math we cleaned up and packed up a snack to get ready to head out to confluence park. This week is walk for Wenjack week and I wanted the students to experience split rock and experiencing the land while walking for a good cause. 

When we returned the students had music before starting an LA task. The LA task today had us reading an excerpt from Silverwing. Students used a tool to visualize what they heard in the text through sound, sight, feeling and any words that stood out to them. Once they finished the visualization tool they answered some reading comprehension questions about what the text. 

In the afternoon we had recess and mindfulness before our second fire drill. Everyone lined up quietly and moved through the halls to the designated spot. The last chunk of our day we had a special guest presenter teaching us about important health and food safety concepts. Every Thursday afternoon we will be listening to a speaker and filling in some health manuals.

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Tomorrow is Friday! Woohoo!

Mr Lancee

Tuesday October 19, 2021

Happy Tuesday October 19, 2021!

Reminders:

1. Vaccination forms were sent home. Please sign and return them ASAP
2. October 19 - Picture Day was today!
3. October 21 - Fire drill
4. October 29 - Pillars of Care Assembly

Important updated school due dates:

    Oct. 13 (NOW IT IS LATE)  Concrete Poems are very late! 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 Science test tomorrow!

- Please review:

    -deciduous vs coniferous trees

    -tree cookies and growth patterns

    -Parts and functions of a tree

Today in room 5:

We started our morning some morning addition and subtraction of decimals, and basic facts practice. We spent a short chunk of time on this before starting our multiplication of whole numbers and decimals. We will be working on this throughout this week and next.

After math we had a short block to work on a bio poem in which the students wrote about different aspects of themselves.

When we finished snack and recess we had thirty minutes to read before starting "The Secret Path."

The Secret Path

Chaney Wenjack was an indigenous boy who was taken to a residential school. While at the school he missed his family, was abused, forced to learn a new language and mistreated. He then escaped the residential school and tried to walk home over 600 km. Chaney unfortunately did not make his journey. We are walking everyday as a way to raise awareness for Chaney and children who were forced to attend residential schools. We are tracking our distance walked each day and multiplying it by the number of students in class that day.

After our walk we had a chunk of time to allow students to present their skits before lunch. 

Once we finished afternoon recess and mindfulness we had time to study for our science test tomorrow. 

We logged into ipads and Kahoot to complete some online quizzes. We tested our knowledge on deciduous vs coniferous trees and tree cookies. 

Have a great evening everyone!

Mr Lancee

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