Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Happy Tuesday.  Here's how our day went:

We started in Math by adding notes about division to our Interactive Notebooks. [see photo]

Next, students worked on some practice questions; this package is due tomorrow.  Many students finished it during the allotted time.  We are starting slowly to reinforce the multi steps of long division, so that when things get more complicated, the steps will be ingrained.  (Later, we will look at simplifying division methods.)
*The videos on Math Antics are very helpful and can be viewed more than once to reinforce the concepts.  See the link on this blog.

We did the school wide run at about 9:40.  Many students beat their times from last Thursday.

After recess, we held our Real Food Potluck, the Beyond Recycling event with Mrs. Vickers.  What an assortment of local foods!  Ryan caught a fish yesterday, some hunters brought venison jerky, sausage, and pepperoni, gardeners brought stewed rhubarb, fresh asparagus, carrots and cucumber, dried plums, frozen berries and canned pears from last year; we had fruit crumbles and homemade cookies.  It was quite a feast.  Thank you to everyone who were able to bring in something to share, and thank you to the parents who helped make it happen.  [See pictures below.]

After lunch, intermediate students participated in various Mindful May events.  I, again, hosted drawing and colouring while listening to relaxing music.

French was the last subject of our day.  We first made booklets, then wrote about our likes and dislikes of the sports we are learning.  For example: J'aime le soccer.  Je n'aime pas la gymnastique.  J'adore le baseball! These booklets are to be ready for presenting on Thursday.

REMINDERS:
Class photos first thing (for real, this time!)
Swimming tomorrow right after our photo is taken.

 

 

 

 

Beyond Recycling article

Beyond Recycling article submitted by Mrs. Vickers to the Revelstoke Current: http://www.revelstokecurrent.com/2016/05/05/wildsight-program-helps-make-kids-environmentally-aware/

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Good day!

We started our morning off painting our pulp birds and bowls.  These are starting to look really good.  Next week we will put the finishing touches on them, then set them out for display. This has been a long, time-consuming project, but worthwhile, according to the kids.

In math, we watched a Math Antics video about perimeters, and marked our package from yesterday.  *No math homework was assigned.

Ms. Kretchmer covered prep today; she took the kids outside to run around in the glorious fresh air.

After lunch, Mrs. Vickers came in for our Earth Day celebration which we combined with a bit of a going-away for Austin who is moving to Salmon Arm.  As a stewardship effort, we cleaned up the garbage in the wooded area across from the school.  It looks much better now:)   Rhenna and Austin even found two whole watermelons in the forest which we brought back for a snack!  (Okay, so they were hidden there by Mrs. Vickers earlier:))              

Reminders:
Tomorrow is curriculum implementation and Monday is Pro-D; no school either day for students.
Students should be ready to test on one of the Human Body sub-units next week.  Don't leave it until the end!
See you Tuesday; enjoy your long weekend.

PS) Sorry the photos are a bit mixed up, but you get the idea.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Welcome to our new student, Liam, today!  Welcome to our class.

Math - After reviewing and marking our perimeter worksheets from yesterday, the kids worked on some more perimeter problems.  While addressing perimeter, we are also reviewing names of polygons, (regular and irregular), and various adding strategies.
*Their package is due tomorrow; they had lots of class time today to work on it.

After recess, we went to P.E., then reviewed our RAISE for Liam.  We re-read Do Unto Otters to remind all of us about our commitment earlier in the year.

We started to mark our Language Arts today; we did not get to the new homonym sheets (in case these are mentioned in the agendas) but will do them tomorrow.

This afternoon, Mrs. Vickers came in for Beyond Recycling: We Are Nature.  We were outside for the duration of this class.  I have included some photos below of our fun, yet educational afternoon.

First, some reminders:
Subway orders and Swimming waivers are due tomorrow.
Book orders are due Thursday.
Keep on fundraising for the Jump Rope For Heart campaign!