Wednesday 27 February 2019

Gr 4 Class Dojo

For those parents following along on Class Dojo, you may have noticed that your child had all their negative points wiped out today.  This was an accident. We had a gr 6 visitor to our portable who was allowed to have a little fun. Unfortunately, he had too much fun and messed up our dojo. 

Let's call it a clean slate and we'll start all over again tomorrow.

Monday 25 February 2019

Homework

Grade 5's need to finish up their media project that they started last week so that we can move on to puppet theatre. We will be partnering up with Ms Devine's grade 5's to collaborate on writing scripts, making puppets, and a theatre so we can present to the kinder classes.

Grade 4's should be finished reading Tales of a Fourth Grade nothing, answering the comprehension questions, and writing a book report.  We are doing back to back book clubs in grade 4 so everyone needs to finish up so we can begin.

Both grades should be practising multiplication at home.

Lost and Found

Dear Parents,  the lost and found box is overfilling and unclaimed items will be shipped out this Wednesday. Please ask your child to check the contents or if you are in the school, look through it. I have a large number of black gloves in the portable if your child is missing one or two.

Monday 18 February 2019

Coming Up

I will be out on Tuesday with the boys handball team.

Congratulations to Noah, Alejandro, Nabiyot, and Rafael for making the team. 
Last week, Alissa, Ry-Ann, Brianna, Abi, and Aloka were out representing the girls team.

Tchoukball tryouts will be starting real soon.

Term 2 IEP's will be sent home on Feb 27th.

On Feb 28th, Mrs Campbell and Mr d'Amico (our school superintendent and OCSB Associate Director of  Education) will be dropping by to spend some time with the grade 5's while on their deep learning walk at St Anne. The 5's will be showing off their collaboration skills.




Sorry For The Delay .....

Wow! What a busy few months. Sorry for not making regular updates. Let's get caught up and see where we are headed.

Report cards were handed out on Thursday. Grade 5's - Please return the signed portion and the envelope (to reuse) to me when you can.

We had the Knights of Columbus in to St Anne to run their annual free throw challenge at the end of January. Great representation by the grade 4's with Caleb, Chase, and Teagan winning their age divisions. They moved on to the regional championships where they proudly represented the school.

Mrs Mason came in to run a gifted program workshop with the grade 5's at the start of February. They were excited to see her again as many had her for a teacher in gr 2. The 5's were challenged to build a simple Rube Goldberg Machine.

Both grades have been busy trying to solve the mysterious packages we've been receiving in the mail. They have been coming up with some amazing connections and theories. Time will tell who is behind this espionage journey!

The grade 5's have almost wrapped up their Living Space project with the Canadian Space Agency and Let's Talk Science. They have been using Micro:bits to code a variety of tasks. They used them to record the temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide levels of our portable 3x a day for a week. They took these recordings (measurement unit) and turned it into broken line graphs as part of their data management project. I like when we can mash some math together!  We've uploaded our data into the project database and are now waiting to see what happens as we continue to follow David St Jacques on the ISS.