Coding

Students are designing their own games using block coding. We hope to play each other's games next week. This is an excellent way to develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Awards

We are temporarily unable to have whole-school assemblies so we recognized award-winners in class.

Colin earned the Literacy award, Taylor earned the Math award and Isabella was recognized for doing everything with integrity. Tori was recognized by Student Council for always making people feel welcome and important at DeWitt Carter.

December Door Decorating

We reflected that the common themes of many December celebrations centre around family, community, sharing and light.

Our door decoration was designed by Macy to reflect these themes.

Song Parody Project

In a combined literacy, drama and music project, students are writing a song parody and creating a music video to share with the class. To get some ideas, we watched videos by the master of the parody song, Weird Al Yankovic.

They will be using rhyming schemes and their understanding of literary devices to write lyrics on a theme for their parody song.

Check back on Friday December 16 for links to their videos.

Analyzing Mass, Shell & Frame Structures

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the 3 types of structures, students used only paper and tape to create models of each structure.

In these photos, you can see that each group has creatively designed and correctly explained the form and function of each of the 3 structures.

Understanding Division with Fractions

Students reflected that division was the operation that they felt the most "fragile" with because they have had the least practice dividing.

Today we had a great discussion that arose from a mistake Kylie made. It helped everyone make sense of the difference between "12 divided by 3" and "3 divided by 12".

Visual models were really helpful to make sense of dividing a whole number by a fraction.