In November, we added a new member to our classroom: Austin the service dog! Austin is a Kingston 4Paws service dog in training and will be in the Gr. 5/6 classroom for approx. one year. Along with learning basic training, Austin is in our classroom to be socialized. As seen from the pictures, he is well loved! He has been…
“Student Vote is an authentic learning program that provides students with the opportunity to experience the voting process firsthand and practice the habits of active and informed citizenship.” (www.studentvote.ca) Throughout this unit, we learned about all levels of the Canadian government, and were able to ask questions from a special guest speaker, a Kingston counsellor. We also learned about…
Today, our Question of the Week was “Talk about something happening in the world today that inspires or excites you.” The students had some fantastic answers. Here are a few: Service dogs in hospitals and who help people with disabilities. People who participate in Nitro World Games. “My sister who perseveres and sings in musicals even when she is sick.”…
Last week we were blessed with fantastic weather for our first field trip to the Kingston Fall Fair Education Day. In small groups, students visited various displays all centered around agriculture. We learned about the process spelt goes through to eventually become bread; touched spelt flour and even ate some delicious home-made spelt bread! We ate freshly harvested carrots and…
Last week, the grade 5/6 class was invited to join the Great Canadian Mail Race! We received a letter from a student in Alberta, who selected our city and school at random. The challenge was for each of our students to pick a new school in Canada and send a letter to a student in the same grade. We composed…