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Teacher's Blogs: Grade 5 & 6

Paper Planes in the Making

By Chloe Linke | June 11, 2022

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 …

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STEM Activity – Oil Spill Challenge

By Chloe Linke | June 11, 2022

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 …

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Reading Buddies

By Chloe Linke | June 11, 2022

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 …

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A Sparky Success & The Gift of Giving

By Chloe Linke | November 29, 2021

Earlier this fall, the grade 5s and 6s at Kingston Christian School (KCS) were invited, amongst many other Kingston schools, to participate in a fire safety chalk contest by the Kingston Fire Department. The task was to create a giant chalk drawing that displayed creativity, teamwork and a great fire safety message. The winning school …

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Austin

By Rebecca Whaley | January 22, 2020

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 …

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Student Art Awards

By Ruth Giffin | November 26, 2019

This autumn, four KCS students received awards from the Students’ Art Gallery at Hotel Dieu. Congratulations to Naomi S. (Gr. 4), Ian H. (Gr. 4), Jubilee B. (Gr. 5), and Naomi D. (Gr. 6), whose artwork is a beautiful representation of the colour that God uses to decorate the fall season! The students’ artwork is …

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What inspires you?

By Rebecca Whaley | September 20, 2019

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 …

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Measuring Growth through MAP Assessments

By Jennifer Shoniker (Principal) | September 19, 2019

For many years, schools within the Edvance family of Christian schools have used standardized testing as a tool to measure student achievement for the purposes of making curriculum decisions. In recent years, Edvance has spoken to its member schools about their needs, the value and weaknesses of standardized assessment, and the available alternatives. In 2015, …

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Kingston Fall Fair

By Rebecca Whaley | September 19, 2019

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 …

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The Great Canadian Mail Race

By Rebecca Whaley | May 13, 2019

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 …

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