Week of Sept 21 - 24
This week we started getting into our new routines and schedules. We started working in our math grade groups working through the textbook. Both grades started looking at patterns in math. In Art, we learned about Pop Art and watched a video about how it came to be. For Language Arts, we are writing paragraphs, working on organizing them and using a strong topic sentence. Students chose an activity that they could write a "how to" paragraph about. In Social Studies, we continued learning about the fur trade and we are working on a project where we recreate what a trading post would look like. 

Please remember as the weather gets colder, to come to school with the proper clothing. Students often go outside even when it's raining. It's also a good idea to send an extra pair of clothes just in case! I wish everyone a great long weekend!

Week of Sept 14-18
Welcome to Division 9! This was our first full week of class. We headed into our new classes this week and started the week with some community building activities. We worked together to play some cup stacking and also to create some pencil towers. We also started Language Arts. We are learning how to narrow down our big ideas into something more specific to write about. We also did a math assessment and we will begin textbook work next week from the Math Makes Sense book. Grade 4's will be doing math with Ms. Wilks and Grade 5's from both classes will be doing math with Ms. Barrera. In PE we played cooperative tag games as we get to know the rules of safe play. We discussed how to be safe and friendly while in the gym. For Social Studies, we started looking at the map of Canada. We learned fun facts about each province and studied where they are on the map. For Art, we created some self-portraits of what we look like on the outside, and what are inner selves look like (our hobbies, interests, talents, etc.). What a packed week! I'm looking forward to having a great year.