Weekly Update - April 17 - 21

I hope everyone is doing well. We had to say goodbye to Ms. Mia our student teacher yesterday (Thursday) as she has finished her student teaching! Congratulations to her on her successes in the last 8 weeks at LBS and on her future teaching career. 

Artist in Residence started again this week - we learned about how all materials at one point came from the earth. We also talked about patterns in nature. We will be working on creating an art piece that will live at LBS within the hallways. Each art piece will be a collaboration between multiple classes and layered work. 





We had a lot of fun this week teaching the stability and strength of our bridges (grade 3) and the successful movement of our vehicles (grade 4). Groups had opportunities to test the cards on each of the bridges to see if they could make it from one table to the next. Students were then given the opportunity to reflect on what worked well and what they could improve upon for next time. 





We are wrapping up our travel guide work and will begin presentations next week. Students will have the choice to present to the whole class, small group or individual presentations. 

Our daily runs/walks are back, and we are tracking our daily distance using decimal and fraction form to practice the skill. Additionally, we will be collecting data at the end of each month to connect to statistics learning. 

In connection to waste in our world, we are now also looking at data collecting and representing based on the markers we have recycled within our school. This week we learned the importance of the a referent group to guide our estimating. We also looked at benchmark categories to support with the sorting of sets of data. We will represent the data in bar graph, line graph and pictograph formats. 

 Friendly Reminders:  

  • April 26 - Whole School Pattern Day!
  • May 8th - 16th - Netball 
    • in school experience
    • more info to come 
  • Wednesday, May 10 - Ann & Sandy Cross Field Trip
    • 4 volunteers needed (forms for this will come home on April 24th) 
  • Monday, May 22 - Victoria Day - No School 
  • Monday, May 29 - Non-Instruction Day - No School 

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