BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

Students have been exploring the meaning of quotes said by Martin Luther King Jr. creating digital posters with inferences. Afterwards, they researched Canadian women and their impact of perseverance on themselves, on others and on society. The final product was the creation of a blog page where students wrote about the women in a three paragraph blog post. Below is their work on display in the main school hallway and coloured digital versions of their work.

February is just zipping by!

This month has been a whirlwind as students began the month wrapping up History with a Mindomo assignment comparing past and present conflicts, as well as a Science project on an ergonomic structure. Just yesterday, students went home with their report cards, showing the results of their hard work since September. Today they completed their first Math unit test on integers for term two. This month we also completed two Black History related activities related to Martin Luther King Jr and women of perseverance. Since today was Digital Learning Day (but we were already busy with a Geography globe activity and a Science lab on mixtures), we will be recognizing #DLD tomorrow with a reading activity at newsela.com, blogging at kidblog.org, beginning the creation of a virtual art gallery with Google Slides, and continuing our discussions about Internet Literacy.

Moving on to Geography

History was fun, especially holding artifacts from the time period of the War of 1812 in our hands, but it's now time to move on to Geography. Our class was selected by Canadian Geographic to learn about geography using a giant floor map. We shared our time on January 17 with other classes from the school and here's a pick of some interactive activities we did.

Form and Function with Structures

A month later...students were challenged with taking an every day object and making it more ergonomic...and these are their creations!



Just before the Christmas Break, students were divided into teams for various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) challenges. Below are some of their structures they built.

  

Well...that just flew by!

Before the Christmas break, I challenged the class to answer a question, and this is one response...