Congratulations to Camden from SK, Abbey from Mr. Fraipont's class and David from Ms. Marling's class! Thanks to the generosity of DeWitt Dragon's and Mrs. Laur selling tickets at the Halloween dance, student council raised $107!
Students are reviewing the structure of short stories in order to improve the plot, voice and conventions in their writing. Their first task will be to write a short story for grade 4 - 6 readers.
As you can see in the photos, the plants watered with salt water and acidic water are wilted and on their last legs. To our great surprise, the plants watered with the water contaminated with cigarette butts do not seem to have suffered the same damage. We will continue to make observations through next week.
We were fortunate to have a day of outdoor activities to build leadership and teamwork skills. Students really enjoyed the ropes challenges as you can see by this photo of Travis.
We set up our plant experiment today and watered each plant with contaminated water at 11 am. By 12 noon, you can see the effect on two of the plants.
The first 2 photos are of plants before watering. The third photo was taken at 12 noon. We have questions! Why was only one of the salt water and acidic water plants affected?
Students are completing their experiments designed to test the effect(s) of contaminated water on marigold plants. Students had class time to work on this and those who haven't finished need to complete their experiment write-up at home tonight.
Here you see experiments written by Colin, Jersey and Macy testing the effects of acidic water, salt water and water contaminated with cigarette butts. You will notice that they have identified the independent, dependent and controlled variables and written specific and detailed procedures so their experiments can be reproduced by grade 3 students.
We will be taking photographs of the experiments as they progress and posting pics in our blog along with observations.
There are many complex and inter-connected ideas involved in understanding Canadian History.
In order to support students in their learning so that they can make connections and think critically about what they learn, there 3 distinct parts to assessing what students have learned:
Students are given an assignment that they complete independently. These assignments have at least one resource and are accompanied by guiding questions so they keep track of key ideas.
Students participate in a whole class discussion based on the questions asked in the assignment.
Students complete a written test on the specific content assigned.
As we are progressing through the history curriculum, I am noticing that students who complete the assignment thoughtfully are able to participate actively during class discussions and are highly successful on the written test.
Please take some time to check in with your child to ask what they are learning in history. This will give them a chance to practise explaining what they know.
Over the next few weeks, students will be exploring concepts of money management. They already have experience creating a Google Sheet to balance expenses for the Integrated Bedroom Design Project.
Key ideas in this unit will include:
understanding how to set financial goals and manage money
fixed vs variable expenses
interpreting pay cheque information
minimum wage
how bank accounts work
This is an excellent opportunity to have "money talks" at home so students understand the expenses required to manage a household.