Snow Day!

We are getting ready for snow shoeing in the back to nature

The whole school got to stay out for a little bit longer this morning to enjoy the snow together.

Emma showed us this video today to celebrate Diversity Day! 

You be you!

Rogers Sing!

Rogers Sing! went amazingly well. I felt so proud to be associated with such a mature, well behaved, and hard working group. In only two weeks, the School of Rock was able to pull off a fabulous performance. The staff running the show were so impressed with the kids' behaviour, our song choices, and our entire operation. Yay us! As soon as we get more details about when the show will be aired, we'll be sure to pass it on to you.

Here we are working on culminating our study on graphs. Students are using the data they collected at Halloween as well as what we have learned about interpreting data and different kinds of graphs, to create two different graphs that will answer two different questions they have. A small group worked with Owen to figure out how to create accurate pie charts using protractors and equivalent fractions. A couple of students decided to try and do a scatter plot about weight of their haul and the amount of candy pieces collected. Students are expected to create two different graphs that are made according to our expectations of things that belong in a proper graph.

Students have been working very hard on their Social Studies posters. They look really great and we're excited to share them with everyone. Here is a sneak peek:

We had another Mystery Skype today. We came so close to finally guessing before the other class but no such luck. Living in the capital sometimes has it's drawbacks.

By Sohail, Kaitlyn, and William (sort of)

Social studies
We are studying first nations and European explorers for the grade sixes and ancient civilizations for the grade fives. We are making posters with all our information on them. 

Language 
We are making a personal narrative called our "important things". It is a piece of writing about something really important in our lives. 

Skating
We went skating with Gillian's class on Friday. It had a really fun time skating with the grade 1 and 2's. We helped them skate.

Monday-School of Rock 
School of Rock (the 9th) is performing on the big stage at Algonquin. We are doing 12 songs (2 Christmas songs). Rogers TV will be filming us on local television. After our Remembrance Day ceremony we only had 2 weeks to practice!     

Art Electives
Today we are having art electives. The electives include; baking, dance, tall art (with Tiiu), sock puppets, never ending art, wearable art, African art, mosaics. 

Mystery Skype
We will be having a mystery Skype next week.

Stories

On Remembrance Day we met the Mayor! He let some of the students wear his $100 000 + gold chain! He had an assistant that held an umbrella for him. Swag.

Owen is teaching us about the different types of graphs and how each of them is useful for different things. We are going to make some different kinds of graph from our Halloween Candy Data.

Emma has us reading stories from the different Social Studies cultures that we are studying. We are "Busting" these texts and are going to use them to prepare for a drama improvisation game.

Quinn is modelling the posters we are each making for Social Studies. They are turning out fabulously!

Long Time No Blog

I apologize for the lengthy absence blog followers!

Here is a short video of students being very quiet and focused during a math gallery walk. The purpose was to look at everyone's solutions for a math problem and to try and understand the different ways that others did the work. Afterwards, we rated the solutions for efficiency.

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The Haunted House was a grand success. I was so happy to see the students collaborating with room 209 and to fully share the experience. We all worked together and did a great job at focusing. 

We have also welcomed Emma Brooks for the University of Ottawa who will be our student teacher for most of November. She has already proven to be a confident and comfortable addition to our team. 

We continue our look at Forces Acting on Structures and Flight in Science. The grade 5s spent some time with Shauna looking at some different types of forces and how they effect certain structures. The grade 6s stayed with me and took a look at some of the properties of air. 

We are also continuing our look at Social Studies of Early Civilizations and First Nation Peoples and European Explorers. Emma will be combining this unit with some drama in the upcoming days.

In math, we recently took a look at mean, median, and mode. We have completed a Reflective Math Journal entry and will be using our Halloween Candy Data assignment to have some more practice.

Next up, we will be doing a unit on Patterning.

We recently Skyped with Ms. Rodriguez's class in the States to discuss our Global Read Aloud. I was away but I heard the students did a fantastic job. The story was being covered by a local newspaper on their end!

In Language, we are going to continue ECLIPSE but we are going to start getting more structured with our writing. So far, students have been allowed to have free choice during writing. I am now going to be giving them more structure with a writing purpose to focus on. Their writing has been very creative and descriptive. We will now focus on capitals, punctuation, editing, and planning our writing more completely before beginning a first draft.

I hope you are enjoying the Home Missions calendar that was sent home last week. I would love feedback as to how they are going. As always, please let me know if you would like to come in and volunteer or if you have any questions or comments.

Tiiu