Hello from Isolation!

 Hello from Isolation!

January 22nd, 2021

We made it one whole week at school before returning to online school! Here's some general reminders for parents/guardians and a summary of our week online:

Reminders - 

1. Our return to in-person learning at school is Wednesday, January 27th (next week). For Monday and Tuesday, we will continue to learn from home. I will send out a schedule for those 2 days this weekend. 
2. Please send in your Alex Bus dental forms on Wednesday next week. My understanding is that they are expecting our forms to be late and the appointments will be booked for our class on Feb 1st. If I hear otherwise, I will let you know via school messenger. 
3. School Conferences are Thursday evening and Friday morning next week. Please book your conference time online. All appointments are 15 minutes long and done virtually. If your child has an IPP, I suggest booking 2 time slots back to back if any are available so that we can also discuss their IPP. 

What we did this week - 

Guided Reading: Guided reading this week was not the same as it usually is, since our books were at school. Instead each group used a site called Readworks and read about a different topic. Then answered questions about what they just read. Purple group did it on Hiroshima’s paper cranes, and if you make a thousand you get a wish. Yellow group read about trees. The rest of the groups, Orange, Blue, and Green read an article on Space Junk, and how it’s a problem. We made many connections to our science topics about famous space missions and technologies.

Writing: This week for writing, we did something called life-writing. Life writing is a personal response that can range from auto-biographies to personal essays. We had two topics to choose from everyday, and then wrote about them. On Monday and Tuesday, we did a response to a question, on Wednesday we wrote either a love letter or a break up letter to a subject in school. Finally, on Thursday, we wrote a personal essay on either what does it mean to be a good human or your definition of love.

Math: We did math reviews to see what we knew about the 4 math operations. We did addition with decimals, subtraction with decimals, 2 by 2 digit multiplication, and long division.

Social Studies: We played a jeopardy game to review the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the three levels of Canadian Government. We also tuned in to watch a small portion of Joe Biden's Inauguration on Jan 20th and listened to part of his speech. We have been following the end of the election process in the US to keep up with current events.

Science: This week in science we're working on a project about a space mission or piece of technology. We got to choose from topics like the Mars Rover, Challenger Mission, the Apollo Mission, and the Cassini probe and worked with a small group to find valid resources of information. Each member focused on a different question and collected notes and artifacts. For example, if you were on the SpaceX group, maybe your question would be “What's the goal of spaceX?” and then on your slide you would explain everything about what SpaceX is trying to accomplish.

Gym:  For this week’s gym we did a 30 minute video of a cardio Kickboxing workout, standing cardio and a gentle yoga flow. On Monday we did gym with Ms. Mok and danced to lots of videos like old town road, the flow, and party rock. 

Music: Mrs. Moltzhan has been putting music videos on the screen and we are learning to clap to the beat to learn new rhythms. We also listened to sea shanties and learned that the original theme song of the SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular example.