Hello Families,

It was lovely to welcome the children back into class this week. Most have now brought back their work, can you make sure it all comes back on Monday please.  We are going to start painting rocks and sticks in art next week. Please help your child find a broken branch (not taken off a living tree) and a small rock to bring in to school.

We have continued our focus on measuring in math, and specifically geometry this week. We have been finishing our 3D mobile and will be looking at volume and time over the coming weeks. In literacy we have finished our chapter book Front Desk, and are now writing our own story. In science we will continue with chemistry, studying mixtures and solutions. Our social study project on the Famous Five, resulted in some excellent Slides presentations created by the children and presented to the rest of the class. 

We managed to play our first Disk Golf game at Marlborough Park yesterday, it was fun. We are going back next Tuesday and Wednesday as part of our gym lessons. Today we planted some seeds at the front of the school, sage and nasturtiums. Next week we are going to plant some vegetables, which we can bring home and plant in our own gardens. 

There is no school next Friday as it is an organizational day at Cappy Smart. 

Thank you and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Coldbeck and the students of Room 14

 Hello Families,

It's snowing, so it must be a holiday weekend!  Today is the last day of school until Tuesday May 25th, when we are scheduled to return to in-school learning. 

Thank you for supporting your child to join on-line learning, it is always a challenge but they have become more independent learners, which is a skill in itself. We have improvised with online kitchen chemistry and self motivated gym lessons. Your children have been learning about angles, area and perimeter and have started to learn how to use a protractor.  We will be revisiting this in school next week.

In social studies, students researched and produced Slide presentations about the Famous Five women who fought for women's rights. In health we have looked at all the aspects of hygiene that affect our bodies. We have been developing our creative skills in art trying to create optical illusions.

We have just finished reading our class novel, Front Desk, which has produced such great discussions about relevant societal topics. The children will now re-tell this story in their own words, then next week, they will plan and write their own story, developing their creative writing skills. 

Please make sure that your child brings all their school equipment back with them, as well as technology if they borrowed any from the school.  I will need their red note books to see what they have completed, as well as the protractors and graph paper to carry on with our geometry unit. 

Thank you, and have a lovely long family weekend.

Mrs Coldbeck and the students of Room 14.

Learning Leader and Grade 4/5 Teacher