Teacher's Blogs
Paper Planes in the Making
Over the past couple of weeks, the grade 5/6s prepared to take flight. They got ready for a paper plane competition that combines art and science. This past Thursday, they put their planes to the test for one of three prizes: furthest flight, coolest acrobatics and most attractive. The competition wraps up our science flight …
Making Pizzas… in French
Aimez-vous la pizza? The grad 5/6s and 7/8s both had fun days recently cooking pizzas in French class. Their task was to create a french cooking show, and they did a great job! They had to describe the ingredients, cooking process, utensils and more as they created their masterpieces. They made videos to demonstrate and …
STEM Activity – Oil Spill Challenge
As we near the end of the year, I wanted to make the most of the time we have left and engage the students in some fun learning experiences. This led to an unexpectedly messy lesson recently. A question I sometimes hear in math class is “What does this have to do with the real …
Reading Buddies
As you may have seen on another blog post, we’ve paired up our grade 6s and kindergarteners as reading buddies. They meet on Fridays to read together, with the older students helping the younger ones. It’s not only the kindergarten class who love this… my students look forward to it all week! It’s their chance …
The Heavens Declare
We have recently finished our solar system unit. The Kindergarten class loved it, and we all learned so much. Did you know that Jupiter has 79 moons? Did you know that it takes 248 years for Pluto to orbit the sun? Did you know that Venus is the hottest planet? Thank you, God, for our …
So Happy Together
After a too-long hiatus, this past Friday the kindergarten class and the grade 6 class joined ‘forces’ and began our reading buddy program. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was a beautiful time. There was a peace and a happiness throughout the classroom as the younger and older enjoyed being together. We …
Farm Fresh
“It stinks here!” were the first words that were said when we got off the bus and arrived at our field trip destination. As expected, within five minutes there was no longer any smell. The excitement blew it away. We have been learning about farms, and the class has so been looking forward to our …
Safety First
This past month we did a unit on Be Healthy, Be Safe. In the absence of a field trip, we asked the field trip to come to us. What a great opportunity to have Fire Fighter Del come to visit us and teach us how to prevent fire. I loved hearing the kids say “I …
So Much to Count
…. So little time…. We have been enjoying learning about graphs this month in numeracy: bar graphs, pie graphs, and tally graphs. Our teacher candidate has been doing a phenomenal job of encouraging hands-on learning. For my part, I have been honoured to be able to watch these little minds learn so much with such …
Thankful Thursday
As students have become more comfortable in the class and with each other, it has been a beautiful thing to be able to begin our day together asking for prayer requests. This may be a foreign term to some and so I have defined it for the students as “something we would like to ask …