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We had a very busy week! Students celebrated pink shirt day earlier in the week. Parents will receive an email soon with the winning t-shirt designs for you to vote on.

Our student teacher from MRU worked with students throughout the week on a postcard from the Andes. After reading a story, they used a template to write from the perspective of a tourist attending the Inti Raymi festival.

 

We visited W.D.Pratt middle school and had fun finding our way around with a grade 4 buddy and playing games in the gym. 

We have been illustrating our published copies of our stories and students are excited to share these with you at our celebration of learning.

 

Students focused on some of the sustainable goals of the United Nations throughout the week. They are gaining ideas for their eventual house designs.

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This week, students were introduced to the role the UN plays in our world. We then looked further into the sustainable goals. We will continue to take a closer look at some of these goals next week.

We continued to use the Design Thinking model as a lens for The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This is a story of how one child's vision can positively impact a nation.

Students have been solving and creating word problems based on division and multiplication. Through the building process, they will apply measurement and 3D shape skills to solve problems.

We have begun writing the endings to our Peruvian fairytales. Our next steps will be typing them up on the computers and beginning the editing process.

A pink form went home for students who would like to participate in the pink shirt day design competition. During that day we will be participating in lessons and activities that promote kindness and acceptance. 

Students who would like to give cards to their classmates for Valentine's Day will have the opportunity to do so on Wednesday, Feb 12th. Please do not bring in food items to share and be sure to include all students in the class. A list will go home with interested students on Monday.

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Students had a great time reading with their buddies in their pajamas on literacy day last Monday.

Students have continued to use the CUBES method to solve a variety of division problems. They are making the connection between their knowledge of times tables and how that can help them with division. 

We have been using the Design Thinking Model as a lens for looking at the story, Ada's Violin. This is a story of ingenuity in a seemingly hopeless city of Paraguay. Using materials found in the dump, instruments for an orchestra are built and young children, including Ada, learn to play. Students empathized, identified the problem and how ideation transformed this community.

 


Throughout the week, students took part in a series of science experiments that will give them the building blocks for their future project where they will be designing and building prototypes of homes. They learned about forces, arches, towers and joins.






Students continue to work on their Peruvian Fairy Tales. They are stretching out the action in the middle of their stories, adding the thoughts and feelings of the characters, dialogue and lots of descriptions.