Happy Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween morning together!
We started by playing YAHOO, a Math game of chance that allowed us to practice our multiplication and adding skills! Ask me about my game strategy... how did I do?

Next, Mme Careen played a silly song about skeletons and filled in the missing lyrics while listening to the music. Click HERE to see the dancing skeletons in action!

After locker break, we read an article about Día de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday that is celebrated November 1 and 2 every year. In recognition of this holiday (and of Halloween of course!) we made our very own name skeletons! Hand-writing and cutting out our names for our skeleton torsos was a bit tricker than some of us thought, but once we got the hang of that, our works of art really started coming together!

Wishing you all a safe and too-much-candy filled evening!
Happy Halloween! :)

Extra Extra!

Mme Careen here, checking in with a very important weekend-edition blog post!

Congratulations to our talented newspaper team who just released the first issue of our monthly school newspaper! The idea for a school newspaper was completely student-driven and is something the team has put A LOT of hard work into since coming up with the idea at the beginning of the school year.

The first issue has been very well received by students and staff alike and the anticipation and
excitement for Issue 2 is already growing!

Congratulations again, Knights News team! Excellent work!

Courtney, Aurora and Bronwyn - Three of our budding journalists!
Félicitations les filles! :)

Have a great weekend everyone!
Looking forward to seeing you all dressed up on Monday!

A busy Wednesday morning!

We started our day together with Knight Time, our first one of the year!
During our time together we continued our discussions about what we learned at our assembly yesterday.

We started by re-listening to the story, "We Are All Treaty People."
You, too can listen to the story by clicking HERE.
After hearing the story, we shared some of the things we learned from the story
or something that the story made us think about.

We also had the chance to write "I Wonder" statements that we will bring with us 

to our next assembly in November.

After Knight Time was over, we had a very special visit from Mr. McGavock!

He stopped by to help us set-up our user accounts on our iPads!

This year, we have a set of 14 iPads that we will be sharing with Mme McKenzie's class. 

We will start incorporating the iPads into our lessons very soon!

We Are All Treaty People

The whole school gathered in the gym today for our October assembly.

The theme of today's assembly was inspired by the plaque our school now has on display 

in the main trophy case near the office.

We were very fortunate to have Mrs. April Waters, one of our school division's Indigenous Education teachers, speak to us at the assembly about treaties and how the are so significant in our province's and country's history. We also listened to the story, "We Are All Treaty People," a book that explains the history of treaties in a way that was easier for us to understand.

After the assembly, we went back to our classroom tasked with 4 discussion questions to guide our conversations. We began our discussions with what the phrase, "We Are All Treaty People" means to us and began to share our stories, reactions and questions to all that we learned at the assembly.

We will continue these important discussions tomorrow during our first "Knight Time" of the school year, with the goal of creating a class statement as to the purpose of having the "We Are All Treaty People" plaque displayed in our trophy case. How would we explain to our parents, friends or to a visitor the importance of the plaque?

This will be a conversation we will continue to have as a school throughout the year and it is through our conversations that we will grow in our understanding of such an important part of our history.

A quick Monday check in...

* Last call for October Scholastic orders!
Order will be placed tomorrow afternoon so please have all orders in my tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.
Parent Pay online is available!
* Section A of our current Calcul Mental strategy will be corrected in class tomorrow.
* Science projects due November 3.

Coming up this week:
* School wide assembly - tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 9:30 in the gym.
* Our first Knight Time of the year will be Wednesday morning.
* Spirit Week also begins Wednesday of this week. Check the Room 208 News page for more details!

Have a great week, everyone! :)

A guest teacher and newly-found extra-terrestrials!

We were very happy to welcome Mme Banks into our classroom period 1 today! 

Mme Banks read two stories to us, "My Teacher is a Monster" by Peter Brown and 

"The Darkest Dark" by Chris Hadfield.  We loved listening to her read!

Mme Banks even took the time to Tweet Chris Hadfield a great student question!

Mme Banks also stayed to play multiplication war with us. So fun! 

We hope she comes back to visit us again soon!

After our visit with Mme Banks, we worked hard to complete our clé dichotomique that we started in Science yesterday. We all reviewed our work to make sure our questions 

and the names of our subgroups were specific and clearly written.

After that, Mme Careen introduced our first "Design Process" project Science this year! 

We were so excited to jump in and get started!

We are creating our own planet and the group of extra-terrestrials that live there! Once our planet population is created, we will design a dichotomous key (clé dichotomique) to organize them into groups/subgroups. We can present our project however we would like; in the form of a book, a poster, a maquette, etc. 

We will have 2-3 periods of class time to work on our projects next week. 

Our projects are due Thursday, November 3rd. 

And, just a reminder that Scholastic orders are due Monday!

Have great long weekend, everyone! :)

A busy Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

We started our day in Math with our first Calcul Mental evaluation. 

Our first strategy was a multiplication strategy where we "Cut and Pasted" the extra zeros.

Ex: 3000 x 5, becomes 3 x 5 when we cut the zeros.

We then multiply 3 x 5 = 15, and then paste the zeros, to get 15 000!

After getting our brain warmed up with mental math, we moved on to our PPCM evaluation.

Most of us still need more time to work, so we'll use part of tomorrow's Math class 

to review and complete our work.

We were busy in Science today, too!

We each got a spoonful of dried beans and used them to create a classification key (clé dichotomique). We needed to focus on writing specific questions in order to organize our beans into subgroups. We will finish reviewing our work and answering questions about our keys tomorrow.